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Ask Matt Johnson!

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Ask Matt Johnson!
As The The return to active service during 2017, we’ll be speaking to Matt Johnson for our An Audience With… feature. So is there anything you’d like us to ask the legendary multi-instrumentalist? Will he ever tour again? What's his favourite memory of working with Johnny Marr? After "You Ca...

As The The return to active service during 2017, we’ll be speaking to Matt Johnson for our An Audience With… feature.

So is there anything you’d like us to ask the legendary multi-instrumentalist?

Will he ever tour again?
What’s his favourite memory of working with Johnny Marr?
After “You Can’t Stop What’s Coming”, when can we expect some more new music?

Send up your questions by noon, Friday, July 14 to uncutaudiencewith@timeinc.com.

The best questions, and Matt’s answers, will be published in a future edition of Uncut magazine.

The August 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring David Bowie on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with The War On Drugs, Steve Earle and Jah Wobble, we countdown Radiohead’s 30 Greatest Songs and remember Gregg Allman. We review Peter Perrett, Afghan Whigs, ZZ Top and Peter Gabriel. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Peter Perrett, Floating Points, Bedouine, Public Service Broadcasting, Broken Social Scene and more.

Hear Four Tet’s new song, “Two Thousand and Seventeen”

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Hear Four Tet’s new song, “Two Thousand and Seventeen”
Four Tet - aka Kieran Hebden - has returned with new music. “Two Thousand and Seventeen" made its debut on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show, where she revealed that Hebden had been “making music for the past 10 months.” Last year, Four Tet self-released Randoms, comprising of music he had crea...

Four Tet – aka Kieran Hebden – has returned with new music.

“Two Thousand and Seventeen” made its debut on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show, where she revealed that Hebden had been “making music for the past 10 months.”

Last year, Four Tet self-released Randoms, comprising of music he had created for different compilation albums over the years. Four Tet’s last studio album was 2015’s Morning/Evening.

The August 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring David Bowie on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with The War On Drugs, Steve Earle and Jah Wobble, we countdown Radiohead’s 30 Greatest Songs and remember Gregg Allman. We review Peter Perrett, Afghan Whigs, ZZ Top and Peter Gabriel. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Peter Perrett, Floating Points, Bedouine, Public Service Broadcasting, Broken Social Scene and more.

Watch Arcade Fire debut new song, “Chemistry” at intimate London gig

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Watch Arcade Fire debut new song, “Chemistry” at intimate London gig
Arcade Fire debuted a new song, "Chemistry", during an intimate gig last night [July 4, 2017] at London's York Hall. The show was part of the band's Infinite Content tour in support of their upcoming album Everything Now, from which "Chemistry" is taken. The band's 17-song set included "Rebellion ...

Arcade Fire debuted a new song, “Chemistry“, during an intimate gig last night [July 4, 2017] at London’s York Hall.

The show was part of the band’s Infinite Content tour in support of their upcoming album Everything Now, from which “Chemistry” is taken.

The band’s 17-song set included “Rebellion (Lies)”, “Neighbourhood #2 (Laika)” and “Wake Up” from their debut, Funeral, alongside material from their subsequent albums.

Arcade Fire played:
Everything Now
Rebellion (Lies)
Neighborhood #2 (Laika) (Tour Debut)
Here Comes the Night Time
Chemistry (Live Debut)
Signs of Life
No Cars Go
We Used to Wait (Tour Debut)
Neon Bible
Ready to Start
Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)
Reflektor
Afterlife
Creature Comfort
Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)
Wake Up

The August 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring David Bowie on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with The War On Drugs, Steve Earle and Jah Wobble, we countdown Radiohead’s 30 Greatest Songs and remember Gregg Allman. We review Peter Perrett, Afghan Whigs, ZZ Top and Peter Gabriel. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Peter Perrett, Floating Points, Bedouine, Public Service Broadcasting, Broken Social Scene and more.

Hear Mike Love’s new version of The Beach Boys “Do It Again”

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Hear Mike Love’s new version of The Beach Boys “Do It Again”
Mike Love has rerecorded The Beach Boys' "Do It Again". This new version features actor John Stamos and Sugar Ray singer Mark McGrath. Love shared the track ahead of the Beach Boys' Fourth of July concert outside the Capitol in Washington D.C. You can hear the new version below. https://open.spot...

Mike Love has rerecorded The Beach Boys‘ “Do It Again“.

This new version features actor John Stamos and Sugar Ray singer Mark McGrath. Love shared the track ahead of the Beach Boys’ Fourth of July concert outside the Capitol in Washington D.C.

You can hear the new version below.

“‘Do It Again’ has been a staple of our live shows since 1969 – it evokes memories of past summers while looking forward to new beginnings. I think we capture that feeling in this recording with the multi-talented Mark McGrath, and our honorary Beach Boy, John Stamos,” said Love.

Meanwhile, The Beach Boys recently released 1967 – Sunshine Tomorrow, a new compilation of material from the Wild Honey and Smiley Smile sessions.

The August 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring David Bowie on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with The War On Drugs, Steve Earle and Jah Wobble, we countdown Radiohead’s 30 Greatest Songs and remember Gregg Allman. We review Peter Perrett, Afghan Whigs, ZZ Top and Peter Gabriel. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Peter Perrett, Floating Points, Bedouine, Public Service Broadcasting, Broken Social Scene and more.

The ecstatic music of 75 Dollar Bill

John Mulvey
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The ecstatic music of 75 Dollar Bill
Still reeling slightly from the show I saw last night in Cambridge, where 75 Dollar Bill, the duo who made my favourite album of 2016, played a pretty transcendent hour. That album, “Wood/Metal/Plastic Pattern/Rhythm/Rock”, has had a wider European release this past spring on the promising new T...

Still reeling slightly from the show I saw last night in Cambridge, where 75 Dollar Bill, the duo who made my favourite album of 2016, played a pretty transcendent hour. That album, “Wood/Metal/Plastic Pattern/Rhythm/Rock”, has had a wider European release this past spring on the promising new Tak:Til imprint, that’s also now home to Natural Information Society.

I guess regular readers will probably have seen my encomiums for 75 Dollar Bill before: to recap, a New York duo (Rick Brown and Che Chen) who operate somewhere on the interface between blues, drone, psychedelia, post-rock, Arabic music, cosmic jazz and desert rock. Regarding “Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock”, I wrote last year that, if Tinariwen and their compatriots reclaimed American blues and transformed it into something dusty, trance-inducing and redolent of their Saharan home, 75 Dollar Bill are an astonishingly potent next stage in an ongoing cultural exchange. The duo’s second album comprises four deep desert blues jams, pivoted on the rattling percussion of Rick Brown and the serpentine guitar lines of Che Chen, who could plausibly sub for Ali Farka Toure in a duet with Toumani Diabate. Horns and violas add further textural levels of drone, but it’s the interplay between the core duo, and between the American and African influences, that gives Wood/Metal… its hypnotic pull. “I’m Not Trying to Wake Up”, in particular, is magnificent; like a gnawa ritual that’s been convened by Junior Kimbrough.

Brown’s rattling percussion, it transpires, mostly amounts to a tea chest that he sits on and thuds with an array of bells, shakers and weaponry. Chen mostly plays 12-string electric, though there are other things going on around his feet, including a small electric keyboard with notes held into drones by bits of cardboard sticking between the keys. “I had been playing these modal, rhythmic things,” Chen told Uncut’s John Robinson at the back end of 2016, “and knew they needed drums to complete them somehow. I was really interested in folk dance musics from various parts of the world, which often use strings or horns and very simple drums. When I heard Rick’s box it made a lot of sense.”

It’s an unorthodox set-up, and one of the wonders of the live show is how it translates into such an organic, absorbing kind of devotional music. Brown and Chen begin with a long, free passage of reed drones, bells and static, that gradually evolves into a stunned, ultra-slow take on the mighty “Earth Saw”. Again and again, Chen’s riff – oddly reminiscent of Slint, as my partner notes – looks likely to break, change course, but much of the performance works like an investigation into the hypnotic possibilities of delayed gratification. I’m not sure I’ve enjoyed a single piece of live music more this year.

After that, “Beni Said” moves on from another processional start into something wilder and more euphoric: there is talk from Rick Brown of dancing, but only head-nodding in response. They talk about the instrumental music played at breaks in the singing at Mauritanian weddings; a critical schooling of Che Chen, who studied there with Jeich Ould Chigaly, husband of the wonderful singer Noura Mint Seymali, in 2013.

“It was kind of a crash course in the Moorish modal system,” Che recalled to John Robinson. “I can’t claim to have anything but a superficial understanding of the modes, but it had a huge impact on how I play guitar. It was also great for me to see this very different way of musicians existing in society.

“I had guitar lessons with Jeich everyday and at night we’d go to his ‘gigs’ – which in Mauritania means weddings. It was also great for me to see this very different way of musicians existing in society. The traditional music is really a family affair and musicians are really integral to weddings which are really the main context where music is heard.”

A very different venue to this Cambridge pub backroom, of course, but the uninhibited joy of how this sound can mutate and be recontextualised is striking, even here. As the duo embark on a series of fervid pieces, the winding riffs become ever more intense and hypnotic, and call to mind a world of other musics as well as their first album, “Wooden Bag”: at one point I found myself thinking of something on Sublime Frequencies, maybe from Thailand? Sun City Girls would certainly be a kind of precursor, even if their delirious planet-straddling hybrids ended up in different places to where 75 Dollar Bill land.

Anyhow, it’s a transporting show, and I’m jealous if any of you are lucky enough to be seeing them at Café Oto in Dalston tonight. Here’s a beautifully-shot set from last October in Paris, to give you an idea of how great this band really are…

 

 

Big Thief – Capacity

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Big Thief – Capacity
Adrianne Lenker had an eventful childhood. She was raised in a religious cult before her parents fled its grasp, then she almost died after she was hit on the head by a railroad spike. Themes of surrender, escape and sudden violence run throughout Capacity, the second album from Lenker’s four-piec...

Adrianne Lenker had an eventful childhood. She was raised in a religious cult before her parents fled its grasp, then she almost died after she was hit on the head by a railroad spike. Themes of surrender, escape and sudden violence run throughout Capacity, the second album from Lenker’s four-piece Big Thief, but one which is ultimately about the capacity of humans to love each other, sometimes suffocatingly, as partners, parents and children.

The band formed after Lenker arrived in NY from the Midwest and teamed up with guitarist Buck Meek. The duo recorded a pair of folky albums before recruiting a rhythm section and releasing 2016’s excellent Big Thief debut, Masterpiece. Lenker, however, is chief songwriter and spiritual core. Her voice is the dominant instrument, her vocal melodies provide the musical adventure and her lyrics are the relentless focus.

Lenker has noted the influence of intimate songwriters such as Elliott Smith and Iron & Wine on her work, while Meek talks of Roy Harper, Fleetwood Mac, Sibylle Baier and Dan Reeder, but it’s too easy to describe Big Thief as simply a folk-rock band. The band have absorbed ideas from the NY indie scene in which they are embedded, so a song like “Coma” may begin with a melodic acoustic strum, but soon drifts into fuzzy drone, while the title track is a reverb-laden take on “Moon River”, and “Great White Shark” wriggles to a dance-indebted beat. The ghost of The Breeders can also be heard, most notably in the warping rhythm of “Mythological Beauty”, one of the most clearly autobiographical songs on the LP.

“Mythological Beauty” is about family, with Lenker singing with disarming frankness about her mother – “Seventeen you took his come/And you gave birth to your first life.” She also sings about her own childhood accident from the perspective of her mother. The nail is not the only sharp object to feature on Capacity; there are vampires and sharks, road accidents and knives. Violence – physical, emotional, real, perceived – is frequent. So too is the contrasting comfort of the body, of giving yourself to another, and the dangers and rewards this can bring. These themes come together on “Watering”, which occupies an ambiguous place between sexual violence and violent sex. On the title track, Lenker sings, “Do what you want with me,” and it’s as much a challenge as invitation.

That ambiguity and intensity is there from the start. To a deceptive backdrop of gentle acoustic picking, “Pretty Things” is a seductive lullaby, Lenker singing of a sexual encounter but warning “There’s a woman inside of me/There’s one inside of you, too.” The gender fluidity continues in the dramatic “Shark Smile”, a sly recasting of “Leader Of The Pack” that opens with discordant flurries of psychy guitar but plays out like Springsteen shorn of bombast and packing a deadpan dénouement. Big Thief rarely go for such straightforward narrative and “Capacity”, set to clanging guitars, sees Lenker tackle self-belief, while the Belly-like “Watering” seems to be about a stalker committing rape and murder, but climaxes with a command to “leave your bedroom light on/I live to watch you undress”. “Great White Shark” is distinguished by a choppy crescendo and some delicious, unpredictable vocal melodies, and is followed by the “China Doll”-like “Objects”, with Lenker singing again about the extremes of love, while Meek delivers a rippling guitar line.

After the summery jangle of “Haley” comes “Mary”, a lovely country lilt set to piano with a dexterous vocal performance, where the rhythm of the language on the chorus recalls Nick Cave at his most authoritative. Finale “Black Diamonds” acts as a careful bookend to opener “Pretty Things”: over a gentle stop-start rhythm, Lenker describes the growing intoxication of love and what it might mean to give in to it. “Should I let you make a woman of me/Should I let you take the mystery from me?” she asks. “Come on, let me make a man out of you.” As so often with Lenker, it’s an offer that sounds a lot like a challenge.

Q&A
Adrianne Lenker
What’s the songwriting process for Big Thief?
I generally write the bones of the songs. I bring something to the table at practice and the band begin to write their parts. Usually it all happens at once. Sometimes the arrangements come out quickly and other times it takes us weeks or months to figure out the first version of an arrangement.

There seems to be a constant theme of surrender – giving yourself completely to somebody. Is that something you’d recognise?
I think there is a desire for a certain type of surrender communicated, but not necessarily to give myself completely to anyone. There is a desire to embody the full capacity of myself, to unfold and become myself, and to be able to share that. Maybe part of that process r equires surrender. But much of the theme feels more like cold water on the face, waking up within the experience of life, asserting myself, my own strength and power as a being, as a woman.

Are the references to knives, sharks and vampires a reaction to your childhood near-death experience?
The sharp stuff in the record is meant to juxtapose the soft stuff. We are fleshy, delicate and pulsating. The shark and the knife are not inherently sinister. The projection of human fear is the scariest thing that appears on this record. Even the energy of the vampire changes when nobody is afraid of it.
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The August 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring David Bowie on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with The War On Drugs, Steve Earle and Jah Wobble, we countdown Radiohead’s 30 Greatest Songs and remember Gregg Allman. We review Peter Perrett, Afghan Whigs, ZZ Top and Peter Gabriel. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Peter Perrett, Floating Points, Bedouine, Public Service Broadcasting, Broken Social Scene and more.

Hear Elvis Costello’s new single, “American Tune”

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Hear Elvis Costello’s new single, “American Tune”
Elvis Costello has released a new single under his pseudonym, The Imposter. "American Tune" is a cover of the Paul Simon song; while according to Costello's website, the second track, "Lucky Dog", is a reworking of "a now forgotten Vietnam-era single on the 4-Tet label out of Fort Lauderdale, FL by...

Elvis Costello has released a new single under his pseudonym, The Imposter.

“American Tune” is a cover of the Paul Simon song; while according to Costello’s website, the second track, “Lucky Dog“, is a reworking of “a now forgotten Vietnam-era single on the 4-Tet label out of Fort Lauderdale, FL by Sgt. Larry Singer in tribute to the heroic exploits of his dog, ‘Lucky’, who had once featured on the cover of Life magazine.”

You can hear both songs below, which are released through Costello’s own Lupe-O-Tone ‎label.

The songs have been produced by Steven Mandel, the co-producer of Costello and The Roots’ album, Wise Up Ghost.

The music is to buy available digitally.

The August 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring David Bowie on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with The War On Drugs, Steve Earle and Jah Wobble, we countdown Radiohead’s 30 Greatest Songs and remember Gregg Allman. We review Peter Perrett, Afghan Whigs, ZZ Top and Peter Gabriel. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Peter Perrett, Floating Points, Bedouine, Public Service Broadcasting, Broken Social Scene and more.

Billy MacKenzie – Beyond The Sun

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Billy MacKenzie – Beyond The Sun
There are many stories, some funnier than others, about how unmanageable Billy MacKenzie was. The Rolls-Royce that he couldn’t drive; the hotel room for his whippets. Each absurd extravagance contributes to a picture of the singer as a quixotic, uncontrollable character with a consistent disregard...

There are many stories, some funnier than others, about how unmanageable Billy MacKenzie was. The Rolls-Royce that he couldn’t drive; the hotel room for his whippets. Each absurd extravagance contributes to a picture of the singer as a quixotic, uncontrollable character with a consistent disregard for convention.
That, of course, was his approach to music, and when working with Alan Rankine in The Associates, those impulses were mirrored in tunes which stretched pop into extraordinary shapes. Things were less satisfactory after MacKenzie and Rankine parted company in 1982. The singer’s subsequent career was an erratic collection of missed opportunities, some prompted by record companies unsure how to coax the best from a singer for whom retreat was the best form of attack.

It remains a cruel irony, then, that MacKenzie’s most coherent solo work, Beyond The Sun, was completed posthumously, following his suicide in January 1997. The record had a troubled genesis, and arguments remain about who did what, but it remains an elegant, powerful work, which balances MacKenzie’s easy command of the heartbroken ballad and his need to experiment. There is a sense of gloom, never more than on the title track, with its funereal piano, and a whispered vocal in which the singer gazes into a glorious, impossible future.

MacKenzie’s impetuosity was non-negotiable. He was grieving for his mother, and simultaneously imagining three albums – electronic, rock and (the one his new label Nude favoured) an acoustic album, with the singer framed as a more impish Scott Walker. He lost interest before the album was finished, and it was constructed from demos made with pianist Steve Aungle, and produced by Simon Raymonde, of Cocteau Twins, and Pascal Gabriel. MacKenzie’s exploratory urges are restricted to “3 Gypsies In A Restaurant” (programmed by John Vick of Finitribe) and the cascading “Sour Jewel”.

The finished work is perhaps closer to the record company’s wishes than MacKenzie’s more manic imaginings. But that’s no bad thing. It inhabits a contradiction, being mournful and resilient, lyrically oblique and emotionally translucent. “Give Me Time” (a co-write with Paul Haig) has a pulsing, European feel, “Winter Academy” is a beautifully icy ballad, its effect underlined by the pained ballad “Blue It Is”. Tempting as it is to view it in the context of MacKenzie’s suicide, the most moving song on the record, “And This She Knows”, was inspired, apparently, by a dream MacKenzie had about Kylie Minogue. And yet it is a haunting, fragile song, in which the melodrama of Aungle’s piano is harangued by Malcolm Ross’ distant guitar. Perhaps the choir which ushers the album to a close on “Nocturne VII” is too straightforwardly celestial, but it underlines the sense of loss which pervades this chilly, defiant album.


The August 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring David Bowie on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with The War On Drugs, Steve Earle and Jah Wobble, we countdown Radiohead’s 30 Greatest Songs and remember Gregg Allman. We review Peter Perrett, Afghan Whigs, ZZ Top and Peter Gabriel. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Peter Perrett, Floating Points, Bedouine, Public Service Broadcasting, Broken Social Scene and more.

ABBA exhibition to open in London later this year

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ABBA exhibition to open in London later this year
A new immersive exhibition celebrating the music of ABBA is set to open in London later this year. The exhibition, which is set to open at the Southbank Centre in December, has been named ABBA: Super Troupers, and will contains items from the band’s private archives, including original costumes, ...

A new immersive exhibition celebrating the music of ABBA is set to open in London later this year.

The exhibition, which is set to open at the Southbank Centre in December, has been named ABBA: Super Troupers, and will contains items from the band’s private archives, including original costumes, handwritten notes and sketches, personal photographs, music and instruments, plus album artwork.

The exhibition will also recreate key sites in the band’s history, including the Polar recording studio in Stockholm, which will be filled with the band’s original instruments and handwritten lyrics.

Describing the exhibition, singer Björn Ulvaeus said: “Since our songs, which were written in the 70s, are still being played today it’s particularly interesting that the Southbank Centre exhibition is placing them in the temporal context in which they were created.

“We recorded ‘Mamma Mia’ in 1975. What happened that year in the UK and in the world? One thing is for certain – it seems unbelievably long ago!”

His bandmate, Frida Lyngstad, added: “We are so excited that the exhibition is taking place at the Southbank Centre, which is just a few short steps away from Waterloo.”

Abba: Super Troupers opens at the Southbank Centre from 14 December to 29 April 2018. Tickets are set to go on sale from Tuesday 4 July.

The August 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring David Bowie on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with The War On Drugs, Steve Earle and Jah Wobble, we countdown Radiohead’s 30 Greatest Songs and remember Gregg Allman. We review Peter Perrett, Afghan Whigs, ZZ Top and Peter Gabriel. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Peter Perrett, Floating Points, Bedouine, Public Service Broadcasting, Broken Social Scene and more.

The Damned announce Evil Spirits tour

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The Damned announce Evil Spirits tour
The Damned have announced a UK tour for January to February 2018. The Evil Spirits tour begins at Newcastle O2 Academy on January 26 and includes a show at London's O2 Forum. The line-up for the band is: Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible, Monty Oxymoron, Pinch and Stu West. The Evil Spirits tour date...

The Damned have announced a UK tour for January to February 2018.

The Evil Spirits tour begins at Newcastle O2 Academy on January 26 and includes a show at London’s O2 Forum.

The line-up for the band is: Dave Vanian, Captain Sensible, Monty Oxymoron, Pinch and Stu West.

The Evil Spirits tour dates are:
26 January: Newcastle O2 Academy
27 January: Dundee Caird Hall
28 January: Glasgow O2 Academy
30 January: Leeds O2 Academy Leeds
31 January: Manchester Academy 1
1 February: Birmingham O2 Academy
3 February: Leicester O2 Academy
4 February: Nottingham Rock City
6 February: Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall
7 February: Southend Cliffs Pavilion
9 February: Cardiff Great Hall
10 February: Bristol O2 Academy Bristol
11 February: Bournemouth O2 Academy
13 February: Southampton O2 Guildhall
14 February: Bexhill De La Warr Pavilion
17 February: London O2 Forum

The August 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring David Bowie on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with The War On Drugs, Steve Earle and Jah Wobble, we countdown Radiohead’s 30 Greatest Songs and remember Gregg Allman. We review Peter Perrett, Afghan Whigs, ZZ Top and Peter Gabriel. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Peter Perrett, Floating Points, Bedouine, Public Service Broadcasting, Broken Social Scene and more.

Steve Winwood announces Greatest Hits Live

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Steve Winwood announces Greatest Hits Live
Steve Winwood has announced details of his first ever live collection, Greatest Hits Live. The 23-track set is released on September 1 by Wincraft Records on 2CD or 4LP. “I’m excited about the release because I have recorded every show for many years and so it evoked many memories of the perfo...

Steve Winwood has announced details of his first ever live collection, Greatest Hits Live.

The 23-track set is released on September 1 by Wincraft Records on 2CD or 4LP.

“I’m excited about the release because I have recorded every show for many years and so it evoked many memories of the performances,” says Winwood. “I suppose it is sort of a tribute to the band members and crew I’ve been fortunate to have with me on the road. The songs were chosen for being the ones most recognised throughout my career and so I hope the record will be a souvenir that brings to mind happy memories of a good time experienced at one of my shows.”

The album includes material drawn from the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, Blind Faith as well as Winwood’s solo career.

Greatest Hits Live – full tracklist:

CD1
I’m A Man
Them Changes
Fly
Can’t Find My Way Home
Had To Cry Today
Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Empty Pages
Back In The High Life Again
Higher Love
Dear Mr Fantasy
Gimme Some Lovin’

CD2
Rainmaker
Pearly Queen
Glad
Why Can’t We Live Together
40,000 Headmen
Walking In The Wind
Medicated Goo
John Barleycorn
While You See A Chance
Arc Of A Diver
Freedom Overspill
Roll With It

The August 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring David Bowie on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with The War On Drugs, Steve Earle and Jah Wobble, we countdown Radiohead’s 30 Greatest Songs and remember Gregg Allman. We review Peter Perrett, Afghan Whigs, ZZ Top and Peter Gabriel. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Peter Perrett, Floating Points, Bedouine, Public Service Broadcasting, Broken Social Scene and more.

The 25th Uncut Playlist Of 2017

John Mulvey
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The 25th Uncut Playlist Of 2017
A long list this week. Not everything here comes recommended, but most does: special attention please to Vince Staples, Wand, Red River Dialect, DJ Shadow & Nas and a new Hiss Golden Messenger song. Also this Jay-Z album might be the first one of his I’ve properly enjoyed, at least on first li...

A long list this week. Not everything here comes recommended, but most does: special attention please to Vince Staples, Wand, Red River Dialect, DJ Shadow & Nas and a new Hiss Golden Messenger song. Also this Jay-Z album might be the first one of his I’ve properly enjoyed, at least on first listen, in maybe 14 years; a lot of that’s down to No ID, I think. And RIP Phil Cohran. On the news of his death yesterday, I’m indebted to the person who posted music from his 1993 album, African Skies, which I hadn’t come across before. It’s extraordinary: do seek it out.

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1 William Ryan Fritch – The Sum Of Its Parts (Lost Tribe Sound)

2 Mountain Movers – Mountain Movers (Trouble In Mind)

3 Psychic Temple – Psychic Temple IV (Joyful Noise)

4 Vince Staples – Big Fish Theory (Def Jam)

5 Dead Rider – Ramble On Rose (Drag City)

https://deadrider.bandcamp.com/

6 Pep Llopis – Poiemusia La Nau Dels Argonautes (Freedom To Spend)

7 Pharoah Sanders – Village Of The Pharoahs (Impulse!)

8 Eddie Gale – Eddie Gale’s Ghetto Music (Blue Note)

9 Various Artists – Soul Of A Nation: Afro-Centric Visions In The Age Of Black Power – Underground Jazz, Street Funk & The Roots Of Rap 1968-79 (Soul Jazz)

10 Various Artists – Seafaring Strangers: Private Yacht (Numero Group)

11 Daphni – Fabric Live 93: Daphni (Fabric)

12 David Rawlings – Poor David’s Almanack (Acony)

13 Various Artists – Space, Energy & Light: Experimental Electronic And Acoustic Soundscapes 1961-88 (Soul Jazz)

14 Red River Dialect – Bowing For The Rook (Lono)

https://redriverdialect.bandcamp.com/

15 Robbie Basho – Live in Forlì, Italy 1982 (Obsolete)

16 Arcade Fire – Everything Now (Columbia)

17 Bob Marley & The Wailers – Burnin’ (Island)

18 Wand – Plum (Drag City)

19 Joseph Shabason – Aytche (Western Vinyl)

20 Mark Springer/Rip Rig And Panic – Circa Rip Rig And Panic (Exit)

21 Hiss Golden Messenger – Standing In The Doorway (Bandcamp)

https://hissgoldenmessenger.bandcamp.com/album/standing-in-the-doorway

22 Compton And Batteau – In California (Earth)

24 Kelan Phil Cohran And Legacy – African Skies (Captcha)

25 Philip Cohran & The Artistic Heritage Ensemble – On The Beach (Zulu)

26 DJ Shadow – The Mountain Has Fallen EP (Mass Appeal)

27 Psychic Temple – Psychic Temple (Bandcamp)

28 Jay-Z – 4:44 (Roc Nation)

U2 – The Joshua Tree 
30th Anniversary Edition

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U2 – The Joshua Tree 
30th Anniversary Edition
It was almost called “The Two Americas”. Later, briefly, “Desert Songs” was a contender. But U2 finally settled on The Joshua Tree for their fifth LP, a smart title that perfectly encapsulated its cinematic mix of widescreen landscapes and thirsting, quasi-Biblical lyricism. It elevated the ...

It was almost called “The Two Americas”. Later, briefly, “Desert Songs” was a contender. But U2 finally settled on The Joshua Tree for their fifth LP, a smart title that perfectly encapsulated its cinematic mix of widescreen landscapes and thirsting, quasi-Biblical lyricism. It elevated the Irish quartet into global superstars, sold a staggering 25 million copies and remains an unsurpassed career peak. The aim, according to guitarist The Edge, was to “follow the blues and get into America”. After almost a decade as rootless post-punks with awkward Christian leanings, U2 finally baptised themselves in the mighty star-spangled river of gospel, blues, folk, country, rock and soul. Tightening up their open-ended songwriting methods into more traditional structures, they made a conscious effort to work with the “primary colours” of rootsy Americana.

Produced by the holy trinity of Daniel Lanois, Brian Eno and Steve Lillywhite, The Joshua Tree became a monumental experiment in monochrome myth-making. Musically, U2 borrowed from Dylan, Springsteen, Hendrix, Peggy Seeger, Woody Guthrie and more. Lyrically, meanwhile, Bono soaked himself in a literary pantheon including Norman Mailer, Flannery O’Connor, Walker Percy, Raymond Carver, Allen Ginsberg and many others. It was an audacious collision of vaulting ambition and juvenile arrogance, commercial calculation and cultural appropriation.

But the resulting music was spectacular. From the shimmering gallop of “Where The Streets Have No Name” to the Reagan-bashing military-industrial bombast of “Bullet The Blue Sky”, from the sultry, eroticised languor of “With Or Without You” to the radiant religiosity of “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”, this harmonious weave of antique signifiers with gleaming modernist textures still dazzles three decades later. The Joshua Tree remains one of U2’s most consistently excellent albums, and arguably their sole masterpiece. They would never sound this fruitfully innocent again.

U2 are talking up this 30th-anniversary repackage, which comes in “super deluxe” quadruple CD and seven-disc vinyl formats, as a timely political statement, holding up their love-hate romance with Reagan’s America as a dark mirror to Trump. In truth, almost all of this material has been released before, mostly on an expanded 20th-birthday edition in 2007 (the original album here uses the same remaster). The uneven extra disc of outtakes and B-sides is virtually identical, and only of marginal interest to anyone seeking to understand the album’s broader musical hinterland.

New to the official U2 canon, though, is the band’s Madison Square Garden show from September 1987, a solid recording lifted from what sounds like a crisp, professional soundboard mix. Hamming it up like a first-time tourist fresh off the boat, Bono amplifies his mid-Atlantic twang as he shamelessly flatters the New York audience, who naturally lap up every blarney-drenched word. This punchy, dynamic set is notable for the glorious guest appearance by Harlem’s Voices 
Of Freedom gospel choir on “I Still 
Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For”. 
But slightly longer versions of this show have been available in bootleg form for years, so there is nothing here that serious U2 fans will treasure for its missing-in-action rarity.

Indeed, the only fresh material in this whole package is a single disc of newly commissioned remixes, all but one by longtime U2 collaborators and key players behind the original album. Lanois gives good value here, transforming both “Running To Stand Still” and “With Or Without You” into lightly lysergic sci-fi lullabies of weightless ambient gloop. Studio engineer Mark “Flood” Ellis also finds an inventive new angle on “Where The Streets Have No Name”, stripping away the drums and pointillist guitar detail to leave Bono’s muffled voice adrift in a ghostly fog of sonic abstraction. But Garrett “Jacknife” Lee’s burly techno-rock mix of “Bullet The Blue Sky” is mostly boorish bluster, while Lillywhite’s streamlined, shiny update of “Red Hill Mining Town” makes only minor cosmetic improvements.

The sole new name among the remixers is cryptic London-Irish electro duo St Francis Hotel, whose secrecy has led some online fans to speculate they may be related to U2, or at least famous friends. Whatever the pair’s identities, their pleasantly nondescript take on “One Tree Hill” has a warm-blooded, fuzzytronic, vaguely Balearic flavour. Brian Eno also takes a pass at the same track, but his two-minute hymnal “reprise” version is a slender, perfunctory sketch.

Of course, there is a limit to the number of times any band can meaningfully revisit and repackage an album, even a timeless milestone like The Joshua Tree. But it is hard to resist drawing parallels here with Achtung Baby, U2’s only other serious claim on all-time classic status. That album was reissued in 2011 in a super-deluxe 10-disc multimedia edition bursting with remixes, alternate takes, arty documentaries and subversive deconstructions.

By contrast, The Joshua Tree resurfaces 
in 2017 heavy with reverence but light 
on context. One glaring absence is Rattle And Hum, the sister album and tour film that pushed the band’s sepia-tinted Americana fetish into Spinal Tap-style 
self-parody, but which still contained potent and revealing moments. The 
84-page book of previously unseen archive photographs by The Edge provides a 
nice visual aside, but there are no retrospective documentaries or scholarly essays to help unpack one of U2’s most conceptually rich works. This cautious, conservative repackage may not diminish the greatness of the original album, but it does sell it short.

The August 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring David Bowie on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with The War On Drugs, Steve Earle and Jah Wobble, we countdown Radiohead’s 30 Greatest Songs and remember Gregg Allman. We review Peter Perrett, Afghan Whigs, ZZ Top and Peter Gabriel. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Peter Perrett, Floating Points, Bedouine, Public Service Broadcasting, Broken Social Scene and more.

Watch the trailer for Morrissey biopic, England Is Mine

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Watch the trailer for Morrissey biopic, England Is Mine
The official trailer has been released for the Morrissey biopic, England Is Mine. As you probably know, the film looks at the early life of Morrissey, before he joins The Smiths. The film stars Jack Lowden (Dunkirk, A United Kingdom) alongside Jessica Brown Findlay, who plays artist, Linder Sterlin...

The official trailer has been released for the Morrissey biopic, England Is Mine.

As you probably know, the film looks at the early life of Morrissey, before he joins The Smiths. The film stars Jack Lowden (Dunkirk, A United Kingdom) alongside Jessica Brown Findlay, who plays artist, Linder Sterling.

Eagle-eyed fans will spot that the “Billy” who appears in the trailer is future Cult guitarist, Billy Duffy, who played with Morrissey in The Nosebleeds.

Anyway, the film premiers at the Edinburgh International Film Festival over this weekend, so expect a full report soon…

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(Sorry: this is a UK-only trailer and is geo-blocked outside the UK)

The August 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring David Bowie on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with The War On Drugs, Steve Earle and Jah Wobble, we countdown Radiohead’s 30 Greatest Songs and remember Gregg Allman. We review Peter Perrett, Afghan Whigs, ZZ Top and Peter Gabriel. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Peter Perrett, Floating Points, Bedouine, Public Service Broadcasting, Broken Social Scene and more.

Watch the video for Neil Young’s new song, “Children Of Destiny”

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Watch the video for Neil Young’s new song, “Children Of Destiny”
Neil Young has released a new song, "Children Of Destiny". You can watch the video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RKBUG9VLFU The track is available to buy from Amazon and other digital services and stream of Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/track/3TQy0EpXLH9WVVCNCICzEE According to se...

Neil Young has released a new song, “Children Of Destiny“.

You can watch the video below:

The track is available to buy from Amazon and other digital services and stream of Spotify.

According to several Instagram post, part of the track appears to have been worked on at Capitol Studios earlier this month [June 2017] with Storeytone arranger Chris Walden.

The August 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring David Bowie on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with The War On Drugs, Steve Earle and Jah Wobble, we countdown Radiohead’s 30 Greatest Songs and remember Gregg Allman. We review Peter Perrett, Afghan Whigs, ZZ Top and Peter Gabriel. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Peter Perrett, Floating Points, Bedouine, Public Service Broadcasting, Broken Social Scene and more.

The Waterboys announce new album, Out Of All This Blue

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The Waterboys announce new album, Out Of All This Blue
The Waterboys have announced details of a new double album, Out Of All This Blue. It's due on September 8; their first for new label, BMG Records. Produced by Mike Scott and recorded in Dublin and Tokyo , Out Of All This Blue will be available on Double CD and Double Vinyl, plus Deluxe Triple CD (...

The Waterboys have announced details of a new double album, Out Of All This Blue.

It’s due on September 8; their first for new label, BMG Records.

Produced by Mike Scott and recorded in Dublin and Tokyo , Out Of All This Blue will be available on Double CD and Double Vinyl, plus Deluxe Triple CD (including Bonus Tracks) and Deluxe Triple Vinyl (including Bonus Tracks) and Digital.

Out Of All This Blue contains 23 songs. String and brass sections were arranged and conducted by Trey Pollard of The Spacebomb Collective. Mike Scott says of the record: “Out Of All This Blue is 2/3 love and romance, 1/3 stories and observations. I knew from the beginning I wanted to make a double album, and lucky for me – and I hope the listener – the songs just kept coming, and in pop colours.”

The Waterboys – Out Of All This Blue tracklisting:

Do We Choose Who We Love
If I Was Your Boyfriend
Santa Fe
If the Answer Is Yeah
Love Walks In
New York I Love You
The Connemara Fox
The Girl in the Window Chair
Morning Came Too Soon
Hiphopstrumental 4 (Scatman)
The Hammerhead Bar
Mister Charisma
Nashville, Tennessee
Man, What a Woman
Girl in a Kayak
Monument
Kinky’s History Lesson
Skyclad Lady
Rokudenashiko
Didn’t We Walk on Water
The Elegant Companion
Yamaben
Payo Payo Chin

Bonus tracks:
The Memphis Fox
If the Answer Is Yeah (Alternate Version)
If I Was Your Boyfriend (Zeenie Mix)
Epiphany on Mott Street
Didn’t We Walk on Water (JessKav Mix)
Santa Fe (Instrumental)
Payo Payo Chin (Tokyo Hotel)
Return to Roppongi Hills
Nashville, Tennessee (Live)
Mister Charisma (Alternate Version)
So in Love with You

The August 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring David Bowie on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with The War On Drugs, Steve Earle and Jah Wobble, we countdown Radiohead’s 30 Greatest Songs and remember Gregg Allman. We review Peter Perrett, Afghan Whigs, ZZ Top and Peter Gabriel. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Peter Perrett, Floating Points, Bedouine, Public Service Broadcasting, Broken Social Scene and more.

Kraftwerk honoured with limited edition bicycle

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Kraftwerk honoured with limited edition bicycle
Keen cyclists, Kraftwerk are to be honoured with a limited edition bicycle: Canyon's Ultimate CF SLX Kraftwerk. This limited run of 21 bicycles go on sale Monday, July 3, costing £8,999.00. "My memories of partying in friends basements as a teenage are dominated by hearing Kraftwerk's groundbreak...

Keen cyclists, Kraftwerk are to be honoured with a limited edition bicycle: Canyon’s Ultimate CF SLX Kraftwerk.

This limited run of 21 bicycles go on sale Monday, July 3, costing £8,999.00.

“My memories of partying in friends basements as a teenage are dominated by hearing Kraftwerk’s groundbreaking sounds,” says Canyon founder and CEO, Roman Arnold. “Kraftwerk and cycling have a special and unique connection – their music, and all they do, has inspired our work at Canyon in so many ways across the years. It is an unbelievable honour for us to pay respect to everything that Kraftwerk stands for and has achieved in such a fitting way with these stunning bikes.”

The bikes feature the band’s unique geometric pattern, originated by Ralf Hütter. Each reflective strip has been cut to measure and then laid by hand; a process which took seven hours per frame.

The August 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring David Bowie on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with The War On Drugs, Steve Earle and Jah Wobble, we countdown Radiohead’s 30 Greatest Songs and remember Gregg Allman. We review Peter Perrett, Afghan Whigs, ZZ Top and Peter Gabriel. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Peter Perrett, Floating Points, Bedouine, Public Service Broadcasting, Broken Social Scene and more.

The Doors announce 7″ singles boxset

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The Doors announce 7″ singles boxset
The Doors have announced details of three new collections that spotlight every single and B-side the band released in America, all gathered together for the first time. The Singles will be available in multiple formats listed below on September 15. ** 2-CD – All 20 U.S. singles with their corres...

The Doors have announced details of three new collections that spotlight every single and B-side the band released in America, all gathered together for the first time.

The Singles will be available in multiple formats listed below on September 15.

** 2-CD – All 20 U.S. singles with their corresponding B-sides, plus four mono radio versions

** 2-CD/Blu-ray – All the content from 2-CD version plus the 1973 compilation The Best Of The Doors in Quad on Blu-ray for the first time

** 7-Inch Vinyl Box – All 20 U.S. singles with their corresponding B-sides on twenty 7-inch vinyl 45s with original sleeve art and labels, presented in an ornate, lift-top box. Limited to 10,000 copies worldwide (release date September 15)

Audio will also be available on digital download and streaming services.

THE SINGLES

CD Track Listing
Disc One
“Break On Through (To The Other Side)”
“End Of The Night”
“Light My Fire”
“The Crystal Ship”
“People Are Strange”
“Unhappy Girl”
“Love Me Two Times”
“Moonlight Drive”
“The Unknown Soldier”
“We Could Be So Good Together”
“Hello, I Love You” (Mono Radio Version)
“Hello, I Love You”
“Love Street”
“Touch Me” (Mono Radio Version)
“Touch Me”
“Wild Child”
“Wishful Sinful” (Mono Radio Version)
“Wishful Sinful”
“Who Scared You”
“Tell All The People” (Mono Radio Version)
“Tell All The People”
“Easy Ride”
“Runnin’ Blue”
“Do It”

Disc Two
“You Make Me Real”
“Roadhouse Blues”
“Love Her Madly”
“(You Need Meat) Don’t Go No Further”
“Riders On The Storm”
“The Changeling”
“Tightrope Ride”
“Variety Is The Spice Of Life”
“Ships With Sails”
“In The Eye Of The Sun”
“Get Up And Dance”
“Treetrunk”
“The Mosquito”
“It Slipped My Mind”
“The Piano Bird”
“Good Rockin’”
“Roadhouse Blues” (Live)
“Albinoni: Adagio”
“Gloria” (Live)
“Moonlight Drive” (Live)

The Best Of The Doors (1973)
Blu-ray Track Listing
“Who Do You Love”
“Soul Kitchen”
“Hello, I Love You”
“People Are Strange”
“Riders On The Storm”
“Touch Me”
“Love Her Madly”
“Love Me Two Times”
“Take It As It Comes”
“Moonlight Drive”
“Light My Fire”

THE SINGLES
Vinyl Track Listing

1a.
“Break On Through (To The Other Side)”
1b.
“End Of The Night”

2a.
“Light My Fire”
2b.
“The Crystal Ship”

3a.
“People Are Strange”
3b.
“Unhappy Girl”

4a.
“Love Me Two Times”
4b.
“Moonlight Drive”

5a.
“The Unknown Soldier”
5b.
“We Could Be So Good Together”

6a.
“Hello, I Love You”
6b.
“Love Street”

7a.
“Touch Me”
7b.
“Wild Child”

8a.
“Wishful Sinful”
8b.
“Who Scared You”

9a.
“Tell All The People”
9b.
“Easy Ride”

10a.
“Runnin’ Blue”
10b.
“Do It”

11a.
“You Make Me Real”
11b.
“Roadhouse Blues”

12a.
“Love Her Madly”
12b.
“(You Need Meat) Don’t Go No Further”

13a.
“Riders On The Storm”
13b.
“The Changeling”

14a.
“Tightrope Ride”
14b.
“Variety Is The Spice Of Life”

15a.
“Ship With Sails”
15b.
“In The Eye Of The Sun”

16a.
“Get Up And Dance”
16b.
“Treetrunk”

17a.
“The Mosquito”
17b.
“It Slipped My Mind”

18a.
“The Piano Bird”
18b.
“Good Rockin’”

19a.
“Roadhouse Blues” (Live)
19b.
“Albinoni: Adagio”

20a.
“Gloria” (Live)
20b.
“Moonlight Drive” (Live)

The August 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring David Bowie on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with The War On Drugs, Steve Earle and Jah Wobble, we countdown Radiohead’s 30 Greatest Songs and remember Gregg Allman. We review Peter Perrett, Afghan Whigs, ZZ Top and Peter Gabriel. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Peter Perrett, Floating Points, Bedouine, Public Service Broadcasting, Broken Social Scene and more.

The Style Council albums to be reissued on limited edition coloured vinyl

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The Style Council albums to be reissued on limited edition coloured vinyl
The Style Council's six studio albums will be re-released by UMC on limited edition different coloured heavyweight vinyl. Introducing… and Café Bleu kick of the reissue programme in July. You can see the full release schedule below. The reissues have been remastered at Abbey Road and each album...

The Style Council‘s six studio albums will be re-released by UMC on limited edition different coloured heavyweight vinyl.

Introducing… and Café Bleu kick of the reissue programme in July. You can see the full release schedule below.

The reissues have been remastered at Abbey Road and each album will also come with digital download codes.

July 14:
Introducing… (magenta coloured vinyl)
Café Bleu (blue coloured vinyl)

August 18:
Our Favourite Shop (lilac coloured vinyl)
The Cost Of Loving (orange coloured vinyl)

September 15:
Confessions Of A Pop Group (white coloured vinyl)
Modernism: A New Decade (yellow coloured vinyl)

The August 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring David Bowie on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with The War On Drugs, Steve Earle and Jah Wobble, we countdown Radiohead’s 30 Greatest Songs and remember Gregg Allman. We review Peter Perrett, Afghan Whigs, ZZ Top and Peter Gabriel. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Peter Perrett, Floating Points, Bedouine, Public Service Broadcasting, Broken Social Scene and more.

David Bowie’s Labyrinth soundtrack set for vinyl reissue

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David Bowie’s Labyrinth soundtrack set for vinyl reissue
David Bowie's soundtrack to Labyrinth will be released on limited edition green and lavender vinyl on August 4 via UMe. Directed by Jim Henson and executive produced by George Lucas, the film stars Bowie as Jareth, The Goblin King. In a 1986 interview with Movieline, Bowie recalled his first meeti...

David Bowie‘s soundtrack to Labyrinth will be released on limited edition green and lavender vinyl on August 4 via UMe.

Directed by Jim Henson and executive produced by George Lucas, the film stars Bowie as Jareth, The Goblin King.

In a 1986 interview with Movieline, Bowie recalled his first meeting with Henson to discuss the film: “Jim Henson set up a meeting with me while I was doing my 1983 tour in the States, and he outlined the basic concept for Labyrinth and showed me some of Brian Froud’s artwork. I’d always wanted to be involved in the music-writing aspect of a movie that would appeal to children of all ages, as well as everyone else, and I must say that Jim gave me a completely free hand with it. The script itself was terribly amusing without being vicious or spiteful or bloody, and it also had a lot more heart than many other special effects movies. So I was pretty well hooked from the beginning.”

David Bowie is on the cover of the August 2017 issue of Uncut and inside we take a close look at The Dame’s 1960s and learn from friends, collaborators and accomplices how that decade shaped the years to come

Bowie wrote and recorded five original songs for the film, including “Underground”, “As The World Falls Down”, “Magic Dance”, “Within You” and “Chilly Down“. The 12-track soundtrack is rounded out with Trevor Jones’ score.

The reissue album has been remastered at Capitol Studios and includes the faithfully replicated original jacket and artwork, including the original EMI America logo and the printed inner sleeve featuring photos of Bowie from the film.

Pre-order Labyrinth by clicking here.

The August 2017 issue of Uncut is now on sale in the UK – featuring David Bowie on the cover. Elsewhere in the issue, there are new interviews with The War On Drugs, Steve Earle and Jah Wobble, we countdown Radiohead’s 30 Greatest Songs and remember Gregg Allman. We review Peter Perrett, Afghan Whigs, ZZ Top and Peter Gabriel. Our free CD features 15 tracks of the month’s best music, including Peter Perrett, Floating Points, Bedouine, Public Service Broadcasting, Broken Social Scene and more.

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