DEEP BLUES: A MUSICAL PILGRIMAGE TO THE CROSSROADS

FILM MOVEMENT

CROSSWORD

One LP copy of Jake Xerxes Fussell’s Good And Green Again

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On the cover: Paul Weller by Sandra Vijandi

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FEBRUARY 2022 EDITOR Michael Bonner EDITOR (ONE-SHOTS) John

“There was no holding back”

THIS MONTH’S REVELATIONS FROM THE WORLD OF UNCUT

“I’m defıned by my writing”

Ray Davies has reimagined The Kinks’ Lola Versus Powerman as a radio musical about a songwriter who makes a pact with the Devil…

Pride of Orleans

A new film follows the river south to The Big Easy, where the spirit of Dr John, The Meters and the Mardi Gras tribes lives on

A QUICK ONE

Hallelujah! The subject of the new Deluxe Ultimate

Poet in motion

Abiodun Oyewole of The Last Poets may no longer be arming for battle the way they once did, but his lyrical mission continues

Eve Adams

LA-based noir songwriter “making something beautiful out of something tragic”

UNCUT PLAYLIST

On the stereo this month

Hit Parade

15 tracks of the month’s best new music

"Music exists in the present tense"

AN AUDIENCE WITH LENNY KAYE

JAKE XERXES FUSSELL

Good And Green Again PARADISE OF BACHELORS

GOOD AND GREEN RECORDS

Fussell on the albums that inspired his latest

SLEEVE NOTES

1 Love Farewell 2 Carriebelle 3 Breast

Q&A

Jake Xerxes Fussell “I’ve always liked music that

CAT POWER

Covers DOMINO

A to Z

This month…

SLEEVE NOTES

1 Bad Religion 2 Unhate 3 Pa

Q&A

Chan Marshall: “Songs are little gift healers” The

THE SOUNDCARRIERS

Wilds PHOSPHONIC

SLEEVE NOTES

1 Waves 2 Traces 3 At

Q&A

Adam Cann: “It’s quite crazy, the disparate spaces

NICOLE ATKINS

Memphis Ice SINGLE LOCK

KA BAIRD & PEKKA AIRAKSINEN

Hungry Shells RVNG INTL

BAND OF HORSES

Things Are Great BMG

NORMAN BLAKE

Day By Day SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS

OLIVIA BLOCK

Innocent Passage In The Territorial Sea ROOM40

BLOOD RED SHOES

Ghosts On Tape VELVETEEN

DANIEL BLUMBERG

The World To Come MUTE

BODY/DILLOWAY/ HEAD

Body/Dilloway/Head THREE LOBED

BONOBO

Fragments NINJA TUNE

BORIS

W SACRED BONES

BRYAN SPENCER

BRIMHEIM Can’t Hate Myself Into A Different Shape WAS ENTERTAINMENT

COLDCUT

@0 (Ahead Of Our Time) NINJA TUNE

CLAUDE COOPER

Myriad Sounds FRIENDLY

MIKE COOPER

Oceans Of Milk & Treacle ROOM40

SARAH DAVACHI & SEAN McCANN

Mother Of Pearl RECITAL

THE DIASONICS

Origin Of Forms RECORD KICKS

ROB ALDRIDGE & THE PROPONENTS

Mind Over Manners  SELF-RELEASED

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

FEBRUARY welcomes the return of Portland’s The Delines,

JOHN DWYER, RYAN SAWYER, GREG COATES, WILDER ZOBY & ANDRES RENTERIA

Gong Splat CASTLE FACE

CALLUM EASTER

System LOST MAP / MOSHI MOSHI

EELS

Extreme Witchcraft EWORKS

EMBRYO

Auf Auf MADLIB INVAZION 7/10 Krautrock veterans revived,

SIMONE FELICE

All The Bright Coins CHRYSALIS

NILS FRAHM

Old Friends New Friends LEITER

GARCIA PEOPLES

Dodging Dues NO QUARTER 7/10 Short’n’sweet set produced

KATE HAVNEVIK

Lightship CONTINENTICA 6/10 Nordic electro-pop siren navigates a

TIM HECKER

The North Water OST INVADA

HELADO NEGRO

Far In 4AD

HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER

O Come All Ye Faithful MERGE

IMARHAN

Aboogi  CITY SLANG

Q&A

Iyad Moussa Ben Abderahmane, aka Sadam: “You feel

JETHRO TULL

The Zealot Gene CENTURY MUSIC

MARTYN JOSEPH

1960 PIPE

THE KVB

Unity INVADA

MILES KANE

Change The Show BMG

DAVID KEENAN

What Then? RUBYWORKS

KREIDLER

Spells & Daubs BUREAUB

UÈLE LAMORE

LOOM XXIM

REVELATIONS

UÈLE LAMORE

LIGHT CONDUCTOR

Sequence Two CONSTELLATION

JOHN MAYALL

The Sun Is Shining Down FORTY BELOW

SIMON McCORRY

The Illusion Of Beginnings And Endings WHITE LAB

MONODRAMA

Mndrmooaa EVERLASTING

CHRISTY MOORE

Flying Into Mystery SONY

TOM MORELLO

The Atlas Underground Flood MOM + POP MUSIC

JESSICA MOSS

Phosphenes CONSTELLATION

NELL & THE FLAMING LIPS

Where The Viaduct Looms BELLA UNION

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Sacred Soul Of North Carolina BIBLE & TIRE RECORDING CO

Q&A

Producer Bruce Watson: “I hear the foundation of

NOIR DISCO

NOW! 2073  TERRIBLE

AOIFE O’DONOVAN

Age Of Apathy YEP ROC

PEARLY GATE MUSIC

Mainly Gestalt Pornography  BELLA UNION

EMILY SCOTT ROBINSON

American Siren  OH BOY

DAN SARTAIN Arise, Dan Sartain, Arise! ONE LITTLE INDEPENDENT

Posthumous recording by luminous garage rock underdog

THE SNOBS

Blend The Horse! BISOU

ST PAUL & THE BROKEN BONES

The Alien Coast ATO

JEFF TOBIAS

Recurring Dream STRATEGY OF TENSION

BLACK FLOWER

Magma SDBAN

Q&A

Nathan Daems on wind instruments, jazz and collective

JANA HORN

Optimism  NO QUARTER

TREES SPEAK

Vertigo Of Flaws SOUL JAZZ

VARIOUS ARTISTS

Highway Butterfly: The Songs Of Neal Casal ROYAL POTATO FAMILY

WEEED

Do You Fall? HALFSHELL

THE WHITMORE SISTERS

Ghost Stories RED HOUSE

JAH WOBBLE

Metal Box – Rebuilt In Dub CLEOPATRA

YARD ACT

The Overload ZEN FC/ISLAND

YEARS & YEARS

Night Call POLYDOR

YVETTE

How The Garden Grows WESTERN VINYL

ROBERT FRIPP

Music For Quiet Moments

FRIPPING OUT

Three other staging posts on the Frippertronics/Soundscaping journey

KELLEY STOLTZ

Antique Glow  THIRD MAN

AtoZ

This month…

THE DREAM SYNDICATE

Steve Wynn on their third album’s return

MARY WILSON

The Motown Anthology REAL GONE MUSIC

CARAMBOLAGE

Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE CHIEFTAINS

Folk heroes: The Chieftains’ Kevin Conneff, Paddy Moloney

2022 ALBUMS PREVIEW

rd has been inspired by Hawaiian slack-key guitar, another honours the great heroes of West Africa’s Bamana kingdom, while a third finds its protagonist returning with “guns full-on fucking blazing”. Join us, then, for Uncut’s essential guide to many of 2022’s key albums. Brace yourself for news of NEIL YOUNG, JACK WHITE, BJÖRK, SPIRITUALIZED, COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS, ARCADE FIRE, THE WEATHER STATION, DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, STEPHEN STILLS, BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD, JOAN SHELLEY, ROKIA KONÉ, ROLLING BLACKOUTS CF, COWBOY JUNKIES, THE COMET IS COMING, SCRITTI POLITTI and more…

COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS

Courtney Marie Andrews: “I needed hope” JOSH GOLEMAN;

NEIL YOUNG

Neil Young: promising a Crazy Horse “pinnacle” and

BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD

TITLE: Ants From Up There LABEL: Ninja Tune

My conscience is clear!”

ELVIS COSTELLO has a brilliant new album to talk about, but as Michael Bonner soon discovers, his candour covers all bases. To be discussed: climate crisis, genre exercises, distorted truths, imaginary friends and the joys of beating up Sting. Every night. Oh, and the human race? “Everybody’s guilty!”

“SOME KIND OF WEIRD GENIUS!”

Attractions and Imposters drummer PETE THOMAS on what makes Elvis Costello

CLOCK WATCH

Elvis Costello explains the chronology behind his last few records

I Dream A Highway

With its vivid songs of fortitude and determination, MARGO CILKER’s debut Pohorylle introduces a powerful new voice to country rock. Rob Hughes charts her long, strange trip from church choirs in Silicon Valley to Americana roots-rock free-for-alls in Bilbao, via Leytonstone’s Ex-Servicemen’s Club and a winter retreat near the Columbia River Gorge. Her philosophy for this peripatetic lifestyle? “There’s a lot of reckoning with the self,” she explains

SMALLTOWN JOYS

Five albums from other key artists associated with the Enterprise, Oregon music scene

You Don’t Miss Your Water

In a hotel on a stormy night, touring with a jazz orchestra, a young Stax songwriter’s thoughts turn to his girlfriend back home in Memphis…

“We need each other to survive”

Always seeking their next adventure, BIG THIEF roamed across America in the midst of the pandemic to create their stunning new double album, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You – already a strong contender for 2022’s Best Of lists. Sam Richards hears the story of four disparate musical travellers who’ve sacrificed their egos for the benefit of the collective. “Tending to the fibre of our relationships is more important than the music we make,” says frontwoman Adrianne Lenker. “That’s the hardest thing, and the music just comes out of that.”

RIVER DEEP, MOUNTAIN HIGH

The four distinct locations that nurtured the creation of Dragon New Warm Mountain…

“I’M PROBABLY THE DINOSAUR…”

Who’s who on the cover of the new record

Cluster

Hans-Joachim Roedelius traces his path with Dieter Moebius from Cologne to communes to Austrian monasteries

TAKE IT EASY

Fifty years ago, in the frozen depths of a British winter, the EAGLES recorded their debut album, in doing so defining their signature blend of laid-back country rock. But what took this ambitious group of selfconfessed “control freaks” from the sun-baked climes of California to a cavernous and draughty studio in Barnes, in pursuit of success? “The shop ladies would call you ‘dearie’,” learns Nick Hasted

THE RONSTADT FACTOR

Singer needs band: finds all that and more

“HE WAS AN ARCHITECT”

How Gary Burden built Eagles’ sleeve

GLAD TIMES

As PAUL WELLER plays his first live shows in over two years, Uncut visits the guv’nor and his band during tour rehearsals in South London, for fish and chip suppers at the storied Black Barn studios and, finally, as he makes his triumphant return to the stage. Along the way, Pete Paphides digs deep to locate the source of Weller’s current seam of inspiration. “When you go out, you go out with nothing,” we learn. “We’re not the fucking pharaohs. You don’t get buried with your gold, and even if you did… what good did it do them? The most important things you hand down aren’t material things…”

“PAUL MUST HAVE SEEN SOMETHING IN ME ”

Twenty years after he and Weller first worked together, programming whizz Stan Kybert reveals the method behind their modness

“HE’S STILL INSPIRING ME 40 YEARS LATER”

Bobby Gillespie on the enduring inspiration of Paul Weller

11 FAR-OUT WELLER SOLO DEEP CUTS

… and where to find them

BOB DYLAN

Indiana University Auditorium, Bloomington, November 7

TONY ALLEN: A RETROSPECTIVE

Royal Festival Hall, London, November 13

Phantasmagorical French body-horror; noises in the night in Colombia; coming of age in 1980s Naples…

Antifreeze included: Agathe Rousselle in Titane TITANE Truly

REVIEWED THIS MONTH

CAROLE BETHUEL TITANE Directed by Julia Ducournau Starring

ALSO OUT...

West Side Story WEST SIDE STORY OPENS DECEMBER

THE BEATLES: GET BACK DISNEY+

Three-part harmony: Peter Jackson docu-series tells a widescreen story of the Let It Be sessions.

BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND KEYBOARD FANTASIES

KINO LORBER

BITCHIN’: THE SOUND AND FURY OF RICK JAMES

SHOWTIME

HELMUT LACHENMANN MY WAY

DEBUNT FILM

WITHOUT GETTING KILLED OR CAUGHT

ON DEMAND

‘Scratch’ drank petrol and worshipped bananas

IN his final interview with biographer David Katz,

Not Fade Away

Fondly remembered this month…

LET THE DEBATE BEGIN!

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