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Uncut is your essential guide to the month’s best music. Every issue, our comprehensive and trustworthy reviews section showcases the best new releases and reissues, while our in-depth features section includes interviews with the greatest names in music from the past five decades as well as the classic artists of tomorrow. For over 20 years, this iconic magazine has been the authority on all things music, featuring exclusive interviews with some of the world's biggest stars, stunning photography from on and off the stage, and unparalleled album reviews from the people who really know. You can be sure that the music fanatics behind Uncut magazine will always strive to bring you the best features, interviews, and reviews. Each issue also brings you an in-depth article on a music icon, from past or present, giving you inside access you won't find anywhere else. Uncut is insightful, informative, and passionate about music.

Editor’s Notes

Fox in the barn • Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold makes his live solo debut at Levon Helm’s place

House music • A new tribute album underscores the influence of Haruomi Hosono’s 1973 folk-rock outlier Hosono House

Gaze of our lives • Having helped to revive the fortunes of Slowdive, Ride et al, Sonic Cathedral founder Nathaniel Cramp looks back over two decades of shoegaze solidarity

Brothers on the Clyde • Bernard Butler, Norman Blake and James Grant unveil their Scottish fireside supergroup

A Quick One

Slate • Ambitions are high for this Cardiff quartet’s epic post-punk

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

Nocturnes • 12 tracks of the month’s best music

MOGWAI • The Glasgow noise gremlins on turning down Lou Reed, touching George Clinton, going sports goth and “Stuart’s Penis”

Belfast • Andy Cairns reveals the Belfast venues that have fostered the city’s music scene

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BRIDGET HAYDEN AND THE APPARITIONS • Trad folk songs, hauntingly interpreted.

JULIAN COPE • Brechtian garage rock and garbled genius.

A to Z • This month…

SUN RA ARKESTRA • Music from our finest cosmic institution spanning a century’s worth of jazz.

JAMES BLACKSHAW • Sussex instrumentalist returns from the wilderness.

LILLY HIATT

BROWN SPIRITS • Melbourne psychonauts tap deeper into their funk roots.

THE LAST POETS • The godfathers of hip-hop find a fitting alliance with Nigerian Afrobeat and London’s jazz scene.

SIMON JOYNER • Nebraska songwriter on writer’s block and the complexity of grief

STRAW MAN ARMY

DENNIS BOVELL • Deep cuts from the decorated dub DJ, reggae guitarist and record producer.

LAURIE STYVERS • Welcome vinyl addition to a slender, cruelly ignored catalogue of AM pop gems.

A to Z

VARIOUS ARTISTS • Genre- and era-defining collection from when fringes were long and indie guitars jangled

TERRY RILEY • A first revisit on vinyl for minimalist’s Eastern-facing odyssey.

AGARTHA • A septuple album featuring collaborations between a human and a non-physical being.

COMING NEXT MONTH…

THE DUDE • Producer, arranger, composer, conductor, impresario and trumpeter, QUINCY JONES was one of music’s dominant forces for over half a century, whose genius gilded albums by artists including Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson and Miles Davis, as well as his own inimitable forays into jazz, big band, French pop, soundtracks and more. Neil Spencer reflects on Q’s remarkable life and achievements, from aspiring wiseguy to hit-making legend. “He could hear the complete thing,” recalls one former collaborator. “More than a dozen instruments, what they were doing, all in his head.”

“HE WAS LIKE AN OLDER...