This Week's Top Releases

Premiere: Raquel Kiaraa Speaks To The Power Of Women in Defying Odds

Singer-songwriter Raquel Kiaraa announces her new album Defying Odds, which speaks to the boundless power and inner strength women have. In this album, Raquel is celebrating the beauty of giving life, welcoming a baby into the world, and continuing to pursue ambitious goals as a woman. Striving to do her best in everything, Raquel has taken her music one step further, empowering herself and empowering so many women that are also going through pregnancy. In her own words: “women rise to the occasion proving to themselves and the world that the impossible is possible, and their dreams are alive,...

Rory Gallagher Rory Gallagher 50th Anniversary Edition

When Taste broke up in the autumn of 1970, Rory Gallagher went through the mixed emotions that follow any divorce. There was pride: their final festival appearance at the alongside and had been spectacular and their last studio album, 1970’s On The Boards, had fused Gallagher’s driving blues-rock with jazzier, more experimental influences and taken the band into the UK albums chart for the first time. ORDER NOW: The Rolling Stones are on the cover of the November 2021 issue of Uncut Yet there was frustration and anger, too. There was enmity with Taste’s manager Eddie Kennedy, who had signed...

Saint Etienne I’ve Been Trying To Tell You

If, as LP Hartley’s novel The Go-Between has it, “the past is a foreign country”, then Saint Etienne have earned frequent flyer status. From their 1991 debut, Foxbase Alpha, which leaned on UK club culture, C86 and ’60s pop, through 2005’s Tales From Turnpike House, a David Essex-featuring, indie-disco set themed around a fictional high-rise, to their ninth album Home Counties, a titular paean to where all three grew up, the reimagining of places and times slightly removed has always been central. It’s defined them as very English stylists with a psychogeographic bent, whose name-checking of London’s Parkway, use...

Van der Graaf Generator The Charisma Years 1970-1978

As Mark E Smith once told Peter Hammill, it wasn’t Van Der Graaf Generator’s lyrics that sparked his love for the band, or the specifics of their music, nor even their academic complexity. It was the sheer power of the thing that drew him in. “He said, ‘You just have to go with the power,’” recalls Hammill today. “And I agree with that. Mark did like an aspect of noise, something Van Der Graaf have always liked. Sometimes that’s just noise brutality, and sometimes it’s noise in the musique concrète style.” ORDER NOW: The Rolling Stones are on the cover...

Annette

After waiting decades, Sparks’ Ron and Russell Mael have finally made it to the big screen in a dazzle of grandeur and glory – not just as subjects of Edgar Wright’s joyous portrait The Sparks Brothers, but as co-writers and composers of a bizarre fantasy confection by elusive French director Leos Carax. Annette isn’t so much a musical as a piece of modern grand opera – a dark romance about a famed soprano (Marion Cotillard) and a tormented up-and-coming comedian (Adam Driver). Happiness seems to be theirs – but when their passion and pain erupt one stormy night at...

Summer Rain’s New Timeless Classic Distilled In “Let Me Tell You”

Summer Rain, a modern rock band based in Canada, has released their newest single “Let Me Tell You” which is a beautiful romance song that instantly takes the listener to the time of classical hits of North American Music. Influenced by Coldplay, Kings of Leon, and Oasis, their music captures the interpersonal energy the band members have as well as the authenticity each person adds to it. Summer Rain has three members — Will McLelland as lead vocalist and guitarist, Josh Beausoleil on bass and vocals, and Logan Hale on drums and slide whistle. The band’s previous release, “Hold...

Chloe x Seekay Collaboration Will Have You Feeling Good With Their New EP “Reflections”

British vocalist Chloe has established herself as a fresh new face in the electronic pop music world. Her collaboration with Seekay, fellow artist and music producer from Australia, has become a true staple. Together they have produced several great tracks with Seekay creating the sound and Chloe doing the vocals. “Fall”, “Hold” and “Rose” are some of their most acclaimed singles. The duo has recently released a full EP titled “Reflections” which is a collection of most imaginative, dreamy singles produced by the two artists together. In it, they have masterfully blended lyrics and sound to create a whole...

Brazilian Artist Matuê Returns With a Smooth Lament On “QUER VOAR”

Matuê is fresh off his success with “M4,” one of the best projects of the year. That passion and momentum carry over onto “Quer Voar,” where Matuê channels his instrumental creativity and presents his accomplishments with a thunderous pride. The track matches his energy perfectly, giving a great vibe all around. This blaster has become a fan favorite for its inspired instrumental and relentless lyricism. The track throws a layer of steaming pitch over the artist’s expansive sound. The Brazilian musician connects with fans on this breezy summer jam with pop keys and warm, melodic flows. The artist also...

Pixies to headline End Of The Road Festival 2022

Pixes will headline End Of The Road Festival 2022. ORDER NOW: The Rolling Stones are on the cover of Uncut’s November 2021 issue The band had been previously booked to headline 2020 edition, before it was cancelled due to the pandemic, and then again in 2021, when travel restrictions meant they had to pull out. This announcement of their presence at the 2022 festival coincides with the release of early bird tickets – which can be bought here. Advertisement End Of The Road Festival runs between September 1 – 4 in Larmer Tree Gardens, Salisbury. You can read Uncut’s ultimate...

Ray and Dave Davies on the Everly Brothers: “A spark of life that stays in the grooves”

In the mid-’50s, no-one wanted to cut Bye Bye Love. The songwriting team of Felice and Boudleaux Bryant shopped it around Nashville and got 30 rejections. Then the song found its way to a teenage duo freshly arrived in town and signed to Cadence Records. Don and Phil Everly – 19 and 17 years old respectively – agreed to cut it. But once they got in the studio with a band, led by their mentor Chet Atkins, they realised something was missing. ORDER NOW: Read the full interview in Uncut’s November 2021 issue During a break, Don started practising a...