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Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd Uncut is the essential magazine about rock music, written by people who love that music as much as you do. Every month, it features the most comprehensive and trustworthy album reviews section in the world. There are in-depth interviews with the finest musicians of the past five decades, and with the exciting new artists who are following in their great tradition. Insightful, informative, passionate about extraordinary music – that’s Uncut.

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Sweetest of the idiots NEIL INNES 1944-2019 • The much-loved Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band songwriter and “seventh Python” Neil Innes has died, aged 75

“Here was someone a bit special” • Neil Innes’ Bonzo Dog days remembered by bandmate “Legs” Larry Smith

Vally of the Lips • The Flaming Lips’ next crazy scheme? A fiery fusion with LA rockers Deap Vally

Leica hurricane • A new film celebrates the era-defining images and turbulent life of rock photographer Jim Marshall

A QUICK ONE

Cabane • Belgian songwriter crafts Arcadian folk fantasies with the aid of some illustrious friends

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month...

Sounds Of The New West Volume 5 • 15 tracks of the best new Americana

“I still have long hair, which is amazing!” AN AUDIENCE WITH DONOVAN • Fresh from his bluesy Brian Jones tribute, the boho minstrel revisits The Savoy with Dylan, Rishikesh with The Beatles… and The Haçienda with Shaun Ryder!

TAME IMPALA • Kevin Parker greets the new decade with another reluctantly maximal masterwork By Jason Anderson

Q&A

DRIVE›B TRUCNERS • Three and a half years after American Band sounded an alarm, comes the reckoning.

Q&A

A to Z

THE HADEN TRISLETS • Sister act reconvene to do that storied surname proud.

Q&A

AMERICANA

AMERICANA ROUNG›US

MOSES BOYD • Electronic jazz with a distinctly London accent.

SHOPPING • A joyous, belligerent call to arms from a relocated dance-punk trio.

SIXORGANS OF ADMITTANCE • Ben Chasny melds analogue and digital in a sublime hymn to California.

SLEEVE NOTES

Q&A • Ben Chasny “It’s a love letter to my home state”

JAN ST WERNER • Mouse On Mars man talks Mark E Smith and Von Südenfed

CARIBOU • Personal pain shared plus intriguing sound switches, on project’s first in five years.

SLEEVE NOTES

TORGEIR WALDEMAR • Oslo’s Torgeir Waldemar on working stuff out of his system

CREAM • Four complete shows from Cream’s final tour, including a previously unreleased set from San Diego.

Q&A • Looking back with Cream lyricist Pete Brown and tour manager Bob Adcock

BRYAN FERRY • A wild night, thrillingly recalled.

SLEEVE NOTES

A to Z

ERIC BURDON THE ANIMALS • Eric’s trip: 5CD set spans Animal’s adventures in the New World.

SLEEVE NOTES

HIGH TREASON: A brief guide to arriviste psychedelia

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE SPECIALIST

EXPRESS YOURSELF • To Portugal, where FRAZEY FORD has sought refuge while she finishes work on her first new album in four years, U Kin B The Sun. Over tapas and aqua vitas, she tells Nick Hasted about her sensational trajectory from roots trio The Be Good Tanyas to her country soul rebirth and beyond. To consider: folk purists, protest anthems, the FBI, transcendental experiences and recurring dreams… “There’s a lot of reckoning to be done ” she explains. “In my life anyway.”

BUYER’S GUIDE TO FRAZEY FORD

“I’m so somewhere else now…” • Many happy returns, ROBERT WYATT! As he celebrates his 75th birthday, a...