MERGE RECORDS

Byrds on the street!

A yellow umbrella in New York marks the beginning of the end for the folk-rock pioneers’ first phase

MORE GOOD THINGS

Three full albums ripe for further investigation

HERE COME THE NICE!

As KENNEY JONES masterminds reissues of the SMALL FACES’ much-loved albums – and treasures from the vault – we celebrate 20 of their greatest songs in the company of Jones, friends, labelmates and collaborators. Will your favourite be among them…?

UNDISPUTABLE SLANG TRUTH!

In 1981, Mark E Smith led THE FALL to the USA, Iceland, and Hertfordshire – and onwards into the gritty, detailed landscape of their 1982 masterpiece, Hex Enduction Hour. Band members and close associates tell Uncut how The Fall grew in scope and power as a two-guitar/two-drummer lineup, and propelled Smith’s transformative visions of modern culture to greatness. “We knew there was no other band on Earth like us at that point,” Marc Riley tells John Robinson. But could it last?

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“We’re captiveonthecarouseloftime/We can’ treturn, wecan onlylookbehind” Onthe cover:

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Woodland wonders

End Of The Road’s Simon Taffe selects six of the best from this year’s festival

A QUICK ONE

He’s yourman!Onsale now isthe 148-page Deluxe Edition of

“Punk’s about looking forward”

Buzzcocks’ Steve Diggle on the bittersweet experience of making a new album without his “brother of 43 years” Pete Shelley

Come on Helen!

As Too-Rye-Ay gets remixed, Dexys violinist HelenO’Harareflects on her relationship – both musicaland romantic–with KevinRowland

Tim Bernardes

Lush, philosophical folk in the tradition of the Tropicália greats

UNCUT PLAYLIST

On the stereo this month

Now Playing

15 tracks of the month’s best new music

Karl Bartos

The ex-Kraftwerk man on the secrets of Kling Klang, nights out with Neil Tennant, and Cliff Richard’s influence on New York electro

JAKE BLOUNT

The New Faith

FAITH’S FOUNDATIONS

From stripped-back debut EP to 2020 solo visions

Q&A

Jake Blount: “I feel like I was at the cutting edge of what I could do…”

LAMBCHOP

The Bible CITY SLANG 9/10

A to Z

This month…

MAKAYA McCRAVEN

In These Times

BETH ORTON

Weather Alive

DANIEL ROMANO’S OUTFIT

COLINMEDLEY, BRETT WARREN La Luna YOU’VE CHANGED 8/10

PIXIES

Pixies 2022: JoeySantiago (right) steps up TOMOXLEY Doggerel

PAUL HEATON & JACQUI ABBOTT

Why at least one of them is “optimistic

DR JOHN Things Happen That Way

ROUNDER 7/10

JOHANNA WARREN

PHILIPRANDALL “I’m connecting with cathartic expressions of rage…”

AL-QASAR Who Are We? GLITTERBEAT 7/10

Paris-based psych-rockers gather a punky outlaw army from the Middle East to the West Coast

Q&A

Thomas Attar Bellier: “Our lyrics are pretty serious

VARIOUS ARTISTS Gotta Get A Good Thing Goin’: The Music Of Black Britain In The Sixties

CHERRYRED

MARIANNE FAITHFULL

Songs Of Innocence And Experience, 1965–1995 UMC 8/10

DAVID SYLVIAN

Blemish/Manafon (reissues, 2003, 2009) SAMADHISOUND/UMC 9/10, 9/10

VINCE GUARALDI

It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown CRAFT RECORDINGS 7/10

ALHAJI WAZIRI OSHOMAH

Joyously pantheistic ’80s afrobeat from Nigerian crusader

Frictionless Borders

First they travelled the world, then they conquered it with their languid, cosmopolitan funk. Now KHRUANGBIN have pulled off their most impressive musical fusion to date, covering the songs of Ali Farka Touré in a seat-of-the-pants collaboration with the Malian legend’s son VIEUX FARKA TOURÉ. “We were all flying blind,” they admit to Sam Richards

Spite does not enter into this

The Fall’s Hexen 1981–82, on record

“It always felt something might happen…”

Kevin Cummins, photographer of The Fall, 1977–2014

Greg Dulli

The Afghan Whigs and beyond – a grunge-soul man’s torrid trail

SIDE SADDLED

A buyer’s guide to the extracurricular endeavours of Bonny Light Horseman’s trio

HOLY ROLLERS

The albums and artists that inspired Rolling Golden Holy

STABLES SINGERS

As BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN, the trio of Anaïs Mitchell, Josh Kaufman and Eric D Johnson have reframed trad-folk ballads for the present, earning a Grammy nomination and the patronage of Bon Iver and The National’s Aaron Dessner along the way.Uncut meets them in Kansas to discuss dulcimers, the unifying power of the Grateful Dead and the joy of late-night jams. “The energy was off the charts,” they tell Erin Osmon.

Free by DenieceWilliams

A graduate of Stevie Wonder’s backing band, this reluctant star’s 1976 debut single would hit UK No 1, with help from a first-class soul lineup

Growing up

SUEDE have just made their best album in decades – just ask their biggest fan, BRETT ANDERSON. Along with the rest of the band, he explains toUncut how fatherhood, family and “plummeting towards old age” have helped bring fresh perspectives while simultaneously honouring their earliest influences. “We’ve got to find ways to be uncomfortable,”

WOMAN OFHEART ANDMIND

When you’ve released a generation-defining masterpiece, as JONI MITCHELL did with Blue, what exactly do you do for an encore? In Mitchell’s case, embark upon an extraordinary run of albums – FOR THE ROSES, COURT AND SPARK and THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS – which pulled her far away from her folk roots and expanded her confessional writing into something tougher and more expansive. Graeme Thomson talks to friends and collaborators to discover fresh insights into these canonical records and the powerful and complex creative processes of their creator. “They’re all classics in my book,” says Neil Young

“It’s one pinch-me moment after another”

THEASYLUM YEARS, 1972-1975

FOR THE ROSES (ASYLUM, 1972) A transitional record,

“OUR MINDSWERE ALLBLOWN”

The inside story of Joni Mitchell at Newport Folk Festival, July 24, 2022

WOMAD FESTIVAL

Charlton Park, Wiltshire, July 28-31

RICHARD DAWSON & CIRCLE

Scala, London, July 6

A surreal not-quite-UFO flick; Cronenberg returns; and satirists’ eyes on moviemaking and Brits abroad

NOPEWith 2017’s Get Out, Jordan Peele made an

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MOONAGE DAYDREAM

NEON 8/10

Waits embraced what his bassist called “selfimposed poverty”

Dicey digs: Tom Waits at the Tropicana Motel

Not Fade Away

Fondly remembered this month…

MICHAEL HENDERSON

Important imprint: MoOstin HARRYHERD/REDFERNS;MICHAEL OCHSARCHIVES/GETTYIMAGES Miles Davis bassist

WILLIAM HART

Delfonics mainman 1945-2022

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