UNCUT

“He’ll rekindle all the dreams it took youa

Shabaka Hutchings

The sonic flights of a prolific bandleader: “You’ve just got to keep playing…”

CROSSWORD

Pat Metheny

The ever-evolving jazz guitarist reveals the records that helped him find the pulse: “On every level, it’s just totally the shit”

Black and white wonder

Bob Dylan’s “exclusive broadcast event” burnishes the mystique with the help of an all-new band

Ones for the Road

In between hugging trees, here’s who John Grant will be watching at this year’s End Of The Road festival

A QUICK ONE

So why are you on Facebook? That –

“I’m the blazing sun!”

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry is back to save the world, teaming up with Bowie’s sax player and Canadian drone-rockers New Age Doom

Here Come The Nice

Kenney Jones reveals his plans to restore the lost treasures of the Small Faces

UNCUT PLAYLIST

On the stereo this month

Adia Victoria

Self-defined “Southern freak” tells the story of the blues from a compelling new standpoint

Tomorrow’s Sounds Today

15 tracks of the month’s best new music

“I can’t claim to be wise!”

AN AUDIENCE WITH DAVID CROSBY

LOW Hey What SUB POP

Duluth duo’s intense 13th masterfully combines the difficult with the beautiful

LOW AND BEHOLD

Three landmark records from Sparhawk and Parker

Q&A

Mimi Parker and Alan Sparhawk talk tolerance, distortion and a whole new planet of sound

THE STRANGLERS

Death puts the Men in Black in sombre, elegiac mood

Q&A

JJ Burnel on Dave Greenfield’s passing and the band’s future

AFTERLIGHT

Afterlight MIGHTY VILLAGE 7/10 Thea Gilmore’s painful rebirth

BABA ALI

Memory Device MEMPHIS INDUSTRIES 7/10 London-based American’s lockdown-

VARIOUS ARTISTS

The VU’s debut covered vividly, viciously

Q&A

Sharon Van Etten: “It’s about the passion”

AMERICANA

Country, bluegrass, folk and more

ALTIN GÜN

ÂLEM BANDCAMP 8/10 Amsterdam-based Turkish sextet dig deeper

AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS

Comfort To Me

RIDDY ARMAN

Riddy Arman LA HONDA 8/10 Montana cowgirl’s sparse,

PETE AVES

Sweet Are The Uses

BALIMAYA PROJECT

Wolo So

DEVENDRA BANHART & NOAH GEORGESON

Refuge

THE BEVIS FROND

Little Eden

BIG RED MACHINE

How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?

BLACK DICE

Mod Prog Sic FOURFOUR 7/10 First in a

BLANCMANGE

Commercial Break BLANC CHECK 6/10 Avuncular synth-pop veterans

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM

Lindsey Buckingham REPRISE 8/10 Former Mac man still

THE BUG

Fire NINJA TUNE 8/10 Prolific studio explorer reconvenes

SAINT ETIENNE

Trio drift back to the ’90s on contemplative 10th album

Q&A

Bob Stanley: “Nostalgia is a sickness”

MAHER CISSOKO

Cissoko Heritage AJABU 7/10 Shimmering Afropop by kora

JACK COOPER & JEFF TOBIAS

Tributaries ASTRAL SPIRITS 8/10 Aquatic free jazz from

CORNERSHOP

England Is A Garden

ELVIS COSTELLO & SEBASTIAN KRYS

Spanish Model UME 8/10 Still a great album

SARAH DAVACHI

Antiphonals LATE MUSIC 8/10 Canadian composer prefers a

DAMON & NAOMI WITH KURIHARA

A Sky Record 20-20-20 8/10 Nourishing collaboration with

THE FELICE BROTHERS

From Dreams To Dust YEP ROC 8/10 Minor

DAVID FERGUSON

Nashville No More FAT POSSUM 7/10 Nashville producer

TIM FINN & PHIL MANZANERA

Caught By The Heart THE SDE SHOP 6/10

SAM GENDEL AND SAM WILKES

Music For Saxofone & Bass Guitar: More Songs

HAIKU SALUT

The Hill, The Light, The Ghost

HAWKWIND

Somnia CHERRY RED 7/10 Brock and co continue

DEVIN HOFF

Voices From The Empty Moor (Songs Of Anne Briggs)

I SEE HAWKS IN LA

On Our Way

WANDA JACKSON

Encore BIG MACHINE RECORDS/BLACKHEART 8/10 The original rockabilly

CHRIS JAGGER

Mixing Up The Medicine BMG 7/10 The other

JELLY CRYSTAL

Freak Show SMUGGLER MUSIC/PIAS 7/10 Starry-eyed debut, daubed

WANDA JACKSON

Rockabilly’s original riot grrrl: bowing out gracefully

KONDI BAND

We Famous STRUT 7/10 Panglobal Afro-rave project, featuring

DOMENICO LANCELLOTTI

Raio BANANA AND LOUIE 8/10 Stalwart Brazilian collaborator

LE BEAST CONCRÈTE

Gargoyle ARENA 01 6/10 Magic Band alumnus dabbles

ADA LEA

One Hand On The Steering Wheel The Other

THE LIMIÑANAS / LAURENT GARNIER

De Película BECAUSE MUSIC 8/10 Winning union of

MANIC STREET PREACHERS

The Ultra Vivid Lament

PAT METHENY

Side-Eye NYC

MOOR MOTHER

Exploring an Afrofuturist universe: Camae Ayewa, aka Moor

KEVIN MORBY

A Night At The Little Los Angeles

LITTLE SIMZ

Sometimes I Might Be Introvert

NITE JEWEL

No Sun

ON OUR OWN CLOCK

On Our Own Clock

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING

Bright Magic

GERRY RAFFERTY

Rest In Blue

DIANA ROSS

Thank You

BRINSLEY SCHWARZ

Tangled

STURGILL SIMPSON

The Ballad Of Dood & Juanita

GERRY RAFFERTY

Martha Rafferty on her father’s ‘new’ album

JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ

Former acoustic moper finds a joyful new purpose

Q&A

José González on framing difficult topics

CONNIE SMITH

The Cry Of The Heart

SNAPPED ANKLES

Forest Of Your Problems

THE SPECIALS

Protest Songs 1924-2012

LAURA STEVENSON

Laura Stevenson

STONE GIANTS

West Coast Love Stories

SUPERSTATE

Superstate Z2 UNIVERSE 7/10 Graphic novel adventure for

ALEXIS TAYLOR

Silence AWAL 8/10 Hot Chip man’s hymns to

LAURA STEVENSON

Finally putting her name on something…

ARUSHI JAIN

Under The Lilac Sky

Q&A

Arushi Jain: “This album is meant to be an ode to rituals”

YANN TIERSEN

Kerber MUTE 8/10 Digital scuffmarks make the French

MARTINA TOPLEY BIRD

Forever I Wait AWAL 7/10 Bleakly beautiful gothic

TOYAH

Posh Pop DEMON MUSIC GROUP 6/10 Modern-day web

ADIA VICTORIA

A Southern Gothic

WH LUNG

Vanities MELODIC 9/10 Idiosyncratic yet euphoric electronic pop

MATTHEW E WHITE

K Bay DOMINO 8/10 Indie auteur amplifies sonic

EVAN WRIGHT

Sound From Out The Window

THALIA ZEDEK BAND

Perfect Vision THRILL JOCKEY 7/10 Lockdown follow-up to

REVELATIONS

“There were personal boundaries I needed to set

ROGER CHAPMAN

Life In The Pond RUF 6/10 First studio

VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR

“I’m so far out…” Riots, mania and musique concrète from prog’s most extreme group

A SECRET HISTORY

How Peter Hammill’s solo work provided the flipside to Van Der Graaf Generator

Q&A

Peter Hammill: “It’s what I felt I was born to do”

JOAN SHELLEY

Ginko/Electric Ursa (reissues, 2012, 2014)

Q&A

Joan Shelley: “Why would you play just one style?”

BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB

Buena Vista Social Club

JOHN COLTRANE

Another Side Of John

BILLY FURY

Three Saturdays With Billy

EMMYLOU HARRIS & THE NASH RAMBLERS

Ramble in Music City: The Lost

THE HAWKS

Obviously 5 Believers SEVENTEEN 7/10 Proto-indie from Stephen

LCD SOUNDSYSTEM

The Long Goodbye: LCD Soundsystem Live At Madison Square Garden (reissue, 2014)

METALLICA

Metallica (The Black Album)

BUCK OWENS

I Wouldn’t Live In New York City (reissue, 1970)

SOFA

Source Crossfire

RORY GALLAGHER

Rory Gallagher 50th Anniversary Edition

Q&A

Gerry McAvoy on playing bass with “one of my idols”

WHIPPING BOY

Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

SPIRITUALIZED

Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS

Rings Around The World (reissue, 2001)

SUPERGRASS

In It For The Money (reissue, 1997) BMG

Choctaw Ridge: New Fables Of The American South 1968-1973 ACE

9/10

Country Funk Volume III (1975-1982) LIGHT IN THE ATTIC

9/10

CHARLES MINGUS

IMPULSE! 9/10, 8/10

Kiosque Of Arrows 2

BUREAUB

Rip It Up: The Best Of Specialty Records

RAFT 8/10 Early rock and R&B from an

Smithsonian Anthology Of Hip-Hop And Rap

SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS

Utopic Cities: Progressive Jazz In Belgium 1968-1979

DBAN

Bartleby - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack TRUNK

6/10 Vintage film score gets first-ever release on

Wake Up The Nation: 10th Anniversary Edition UMC/ISLAND

9/10 Weller’s 10th studio album remixed: one of

COMING NEXT MONTH...

A UTUMN always brings a strong clutch of

¡CUBA LIBRE!

In 1996, RY COODER assembled the BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB and turned Havana’s forgotten musical aristocracy into unlikely stars. Twentyfive years on, the magic of the joyous, bittersweet album they recorded together is stronger than ever. But how did its curator and venerable cast navigate power cuts, food shortages and meetings with Fidel Castro? “We got in there and did great things,” Cooder tells Graeme Thomson

“I SHOT A FAIRY TALE…”

Wim Wenders on making the Buena Vista Social Club documentary

SOCIAL CLUB STARS

Buena Vista’s Big Six

A MESSAGE TO YOU

The No 1 success of Encore proved THE SPECIALS remain a vital force – but what are Terry Hall, Horace Panter and Lynval Golding doing for, well, an encore? Taking a stand against the “heavy atmosphere” of the last 18 months, they have recorded a set of protest songs by artists as diverse as Frank Zappa, Big Bill Broonzy and Chip Taylor. “ All we can do is try and raise awareness,” they tell Peter Watts. “That’s our role.”

PROTEST SONGS: THE SOURCE!

Terry, Horace and Lynval guide you track by track through their new album

Golden Years

By confronting Nashville conservatism, she became the outspoken queen of “galactic country” – but how will magic mushrooms, “insane spiritual welfare” and a rose-strewn bed that resembles “some Brian Wilson shit” help KACEY MUSGRAVES sort out her next “Big Bang explosion of ideas”? She tells Stephen Deusner, “Sometimes I contradict myself from one song to the next…”

From Trailer Parks to Tragedies

How to buy Kacey Musgr aves in Nashville

Policemen and lightning bugs

Inside Kacey Musgraves’ collaboration with The Flaming Lips

The Making of Richard III

BETWEEN starting and finishing “Richard III”, Supergrass enjoyed

KEY PLAYERS

Gaz Coombes Vocals, guitar, co-writer, co-producer Mick Quinn

There and back again

Join us at the bar in The Millers Arms, before genial host Pye Hastings takes us on an evocative tour of CARAVAN’s old haunts around Canterbury. Along the way, Sam Richards hears how wigwams, Brussels sprouts and a bypass near Sevenoaks helped them become the enduring, if unlikely, heroes of prog. “The problems of the world didn’t really affect us… We lived in our own little bubble.”

LIFE IS SUITE

Four great Caravan “long songs”

PINTS, CAMRA, ACTION!

Remembering Canterbury’s thriving live music scene of the ’60s and ’70s

WHAT WE DID IN THE SHADOWS

Moroccan opium dens! A song called “Jazzmen”! “I spend my days pushing Elvis Presley’s belly up a series of steep hills”! As a new compilation featuring previously unreleased material from NICK CAVE’s most recent studio albums emerges from the vaults, Peter Watts takes a dive into a remarkable secret history –a rich and strange phantasmagoria of lost songs, near-forgotten gems and other sonic outcasts. Our guides are Bad Seeds WARREN ELLIS, JIM SCLAVUNOS, THOMAS WYDLER and MICK HARVEY along with Cave himself. “You can’t buy that stuff !” he tells us…

THE TWO B-SIDES THAT GOT AWAY

M ICK Harvey compiled the original B-Sides &

CARNAGE ON TOUR!

Warren Ellis on what we can expect from his and Cave’s upcoming shows…

RED RIGHT HAND MAN

Virtuoso electric violinist, serial collaborator, Bad Seed, Grinderman... and now author and proud owner of a wildlife sanctuary, WARREN ELLIS looks back at 30 years of creative risk-taking. But what’s his secret? “He’s extraterrestrial,” Nick Cave confides to Laura Barton

THE BEST OF WARREN & NICK

BOB BERG/GETTY IMAGES; STEVE GULLICK LET LOVE IN

ROGER & BRIAN ENO

Odeon Of Herodes Atticus, Athens, August 4

CHRISSIE HYNDE

Royal Opera House, London, July 31

BOOKS

Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder in Italy, 1976

FILMS

Aretha Franklin tribute; censorship as violence; revolution in Mexico; Sparks’ grand opera; Nic Cage tones it down

ALSO OUT...

WENDY OPENS AUGUST 13 A decade after Beasts

McCARTNEY 3,2,1

DISNEY + 9/10

GREAT NOISES THAT FILL THE AIR MUSIC, POETRY AND PERFORMANCE ON FILM

BFI 7/10

Not Fade Away

Fondly remembered this month…

JOHN HUTCHINSON

Guitarist and Bowie foil (1944-2021)

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