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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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Art for Ra’s sake! • A new book celebrates the helio-eccentric worlds of Sun Ra sleeve design

“Just make it up!” • Kid Congo Powers’ amazing adventures with The Gun Club, The Cramps, The Bad Seeds and beyond

Doo it again • Original Can vocalist Malcolm Mooney is back with an intrepid new band, featuring members of Sonic Youth and Yo La Tengo

A QUICK ONE

Great bunch of Fellers • Reappraising the lo-fi high jinks of alt. rock pioneers Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

Myriam Gendron • Enigmatic French-Canadian, reconfiguring folk songs and Dorothy Parker poems

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month…

Big Time Sounds • 15 tracks of the month’s best new music

AN AUDIENCE WITH… Cat Power • The inimitable Chan Marshall on turning 50, dogs versus cats, the “atrocity” of modern-day America and an encounter with “God Dylan”

BRIAN ENO FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE UMC • It’s the end of the world as we know it… Eno returns to the vocal booth.

VOICE MEMOS • The best of Eno’s 21st-century vocal catalogue

COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS Loose Future FAT POSSUM 8/10 • New ideas and new love on Nashvillebased artist’s eighth.

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AtoZ • This month…

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THE COMET IS COMING • Improvs from outer space.

AMERICANA Album of the month • First in eight years from acutely gifted Oklahoman

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THE UNTHANKS • Northumberland’s premier folk adventurers return in style.

BUZZCOCKS

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BILL CALLAHAN • Back to life: Smog visionary’s message from the other side.

LYNDON MORGANS • The Songdog mainman on the need to shed his skin

WILL SHEFF • The Okkervil River man on the need to “turn the page”

DRY CLEANING • Strikingly unique indie sprechgesang from London quartet.

Q&A • Dry Cleaning: “We don’t plan anything”

JOE STRUMMER • Strummer’s last testament, still testifying.

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PINK FLOYD • Louder, angrier, faster, and new cover art… Floyd’s awkward 1977 opus lives again on this long-awaited remix.

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AtoZ This month…

JELLYFISH

THE CURE • Robert Smith opens the vault for this 30th-anniversary reissue.

{REDISCOVERED} • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

{THE SPECIALIST}

TAKIN’ OFF! • From child prodigy to jazz colossus, HERBIE HANCOCK has repeatedly revolutionised music. In a rare audience with the rockit man, he tells Graeme Thomson about his remarkable career, alongside giants including Miles Davis and Joni Mitchell, and as a formidable solo artist in his own right. But what keeps this tireless innovator going into his ninth decade? “I like to be ahead of the curve,” he says. “I’m trying to make a curve!”

HANCOCK AND LAMAR: THE TRUTH!

HERBIE THROUGH THE DECADES • A buyers’ guide for every era

INTO THE MYSTIC • Depressed and anxious following the release of her remarkable debut album Land Of No Junction in 2020, Dubliner AOIFE NESSA FRANCES headed west to spend lockdown with her father and sisters in County Clare. Reinvigorated by the experience, she’s returned with a dark, dreamy and defiant second album, Protector. “Music is magic,” she...