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“It’s quite emotıonal” • The full, miraculous story of how the Fab Four were reunited for the last Beatles song, “Now And Then”

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Kosmic country • Flying Winnebagos and fairies in Nudie suits: the far-out tale of lost Gram Parsons sci-fi film Saturation 70

Spex appeal • Turning the world Day-Glo: Lora Logic recalls her time with Poly Styrene and X-Ray Spex

Got a feeling • A new group are reconfiguring the sound of British folk-jazz with the aid of Pentangle’s Jacqui McShee

Wednesday • Cathartic indie-rock inspiring local devotion

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NEW ALBUMS • The former Coral man continues an intimate, emotional exchange. By Laura Barton

PETER GABRIEL • A belated, drip-fed return offers hope in the darkness.

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HARP • A decade in the making, Midlake’s magisterial mainman returns.

NIECY BLUES • Rootsy Southern soul experimentalist on the joy of “circular sound”

JESSI COLTER • The country veteran teams up with Margo Price.

LUTHER DICKINSON • Home sweet home for North Mississippi Allstars co-founder

CANDIDATE • New tales from old, weird Essex

JAMES ELKINGTON • Inspired doodles from an English folk guitar master.

REVEREND KRISTIN MICHAEL HAYTER • Kristin Hayter on artistic and spiritual rebirth

MADHUVANTI PAL • Sublime indeed: deep caverns of drone on the very first vinyl LP to feature a woman playing the rudra veena.

Archive • The Georgia band’s triumphant sophomore album, boxed up with rarities and live tracks.

DONOVAN • Pop shaman takes young and old on a rhapsodic journey.

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KATE BUSH • Newly reissued, two sister albums strike up a dialogue across the decades.

JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE • Surprise release of a pre-fame Jimi, Noel and Mitch bewildering Los Angeles in August 1967

VARIOUS ARTISTS • Exotica snapshots from Latin America’s pre-jazz age

SHIRLEY COLLINS • The Sussex folk legend talks saddest songs, soot-filled trains and her famous sloe gin: “to be sipped carefully…”

MIRACLES WONDER • Another living legend making vital and inquisitive music well into his eighties, PAUL SIMON is responsible for Uncut’s No 2 album of 2023 in the form of Seven Psalms, a spry encapsulation of his lifelong musical and spiritual quest. He tells John Lewis about his “emotional searching” – and confirms that, while traditional rock concerts may be off the agenda, he’s not done yet…

“I ACTUALLY HAVE A SIX-HOUR CUT!” • Alex Gibney on his deep-diving Paul Simon documentary, In Restless Dreams

BEST NEW ALBUMS

“I WAS SO FULL OF DISBELIEF AND ANGER” • Corinne Bailey Rae on the stories that inspired her startling return to the studio, Black Rainbows

“INSANE BUT ALSO WONDERFUL” • Arooj Aftab...