RADIO WAVES

Two “No Hopers from the Wirral”, ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK became modernist hit makers until Dazzle Ships – awildly innovative album inspired by musique concrète, Cold War paranoia and Eastern Bloc broadcasts – almost sank them. Forty years on, however, the legacy of Dazzle Ships has steadily grown. “It hurt at the time,” they confess to Graeme Thomson. “Because we put our heart and soul into it.”

“THERE’S MORE DESIGNERS THAN MUSICIANS”

PETER SAVILLE on OMD, geometric camouflage and marine horizons

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Onthe cover: Peter Gabriel by Nadav Kander Inset:

Strike up The Band!

Elliott Landy uncoversanothercache of photos from Big Pink and beyond

Totally rewired!

Meet House Of All, a new band comprisedentirely of ex-Fall members

“It was great fun”

TheMission’s WayneHussey on his expandingmemoirs,theSisterson speed, and sweet German wine

Souvenirs from a dream

TOM VERLAINE | 1949–2023

JEWEL IN THE CROWN

Three Verlaine acolytes heed the clarion call of Television’s 1975 debut single “Little Johnny Jewel”

Brown Spirits

WE’RE NEW HERE

Now Playing

15 tracks of the month’s best new music

AN AUDIENCE WITH... Captain Sensible

The Damned’s bereted lord of misrule talks about the things he likes to do: necking baked beans, abolishing the military and dressing up as Soft Machine’s Mike Ratledge

FEIST Multitudes POLYDOR

THE UNCUT GUIDE TO THIS MONTH’S KEY RELEASES

FEAST OF FEIST

The pick of Feist’s back catalogue

Q&A

Feist, at L’Olympia in Paris, September 5, 2018

LANKUM

False Lankum ROUGHTRADE 9/10

AtoZ

This month… P26 DEPECHE MODE P28 THE DAMNED

DEPECHE MODE

Memento Mori COLUMBIA/MUTE 8/10

STEVE GUNN & DAVID MOORE

Reflections Vol 1: Let The Moon Be A Planet RVNG INTL 8/10

MARTY STUART AND HIS FABULOUS SUPERLATIVES

Altitude SNAKEFARM 8/10

NORTH AMERICANS

A mbient Americana has been on the rise

AROOJ AFTAB, VIJAY IYER & SHAHZAD ISMAILY

Love In Exile VERVE 8/10

THE ZOMBIES

Different Game COOKING VINYL 8/10

SILVER MOTH

Elisabeth Elektrarecalls the making of Black Bay

BILLY VALENTINE

”It’s a statement of the times we’re living in”

WEDNESDAY

Rat Saw God DEAD OCEANS 9/10

THE PRETTY THINGS

Complete Studio Albums 1965-2020 MADFISH

SAVAGE HIGHS

The Pretty Things post-’60s

Q&A

Dick Taylor, Pretty Things founder: “We wanted to put our own mark on things”

EDEN AHBEZ

Eden’s Island (reissue, 1960) EVERLAND 8/10

NATURAL BORN CLASSICS

Ahbez’s evergreen “Nature Boy” at its best

This month…

P46 DE LA SOUL P46 ELTON JOHN P47

PINK FLOYD

The Dark Side Of The Moon (50th Anniversary Deluxe Boxset) EMI 10/10

JOYCE STREET

Tied Down NUMEROGROUP 8/10

PHAROAH SANDERS

Live At Fabrik Hamburg 1980 JAZZLINE CLASSICS 8/10

“When you travel like me, you don’t get lost…”

His rich, golden voice and music that hovers deftly between tradition and electronic blues has made BAABA MAAL one of Africa’s most beloved and critically acclaimed musicians. With his first new album for seven years and a music festival to discuss, Maal invites Uncut to a rare audience in his hometown, Podor. There, however, Nick Hasted encounters unexpected tragedy amid the superstar showmanship

The Pirate Queen

Down in New Orleans, RICKIE LEE JONES is taking stock. She has a new album to discuss – Pieces Of Treasure, in which she tackles the American Songbook in her own luminous style – but also “emotion and trauma”, Rita Hayworth, “spaghetti on the wall” and the quixotic creative spirit that has both challenged her and nourished her across her 45-year career. As she explains to Laura Barton, “Only by taking a chance is there some kind of a reflection of what my mettle is, what I’m made of, who I am.”

DAYS IN THE LIFE

Photographer Terry O’Neill worked with THE BEATLES across five decades, capturing the band at the start and on through the solo years. Many of his shots are being published for the first time in a new photo book, The Beatles. Here, we reveal a trove of previously unseen photographs, beginning at the dawn of the Fabs…

Her Jazz

Inspired by riot grrrl, a mixed-gender band fire up the UK’s mid-’90s indie scene. “It wasn’t anthemic by accident…”

Send in the clouds

The wry, sardonic brilliance of DAVID BERMAN shone brightly until his tragic suicide in 2019, aged only 52. As American Water – the first great masterpiece by his band Silver Jews – turns 25, Berman’s friends and former collaborators reflect on the idiosyncratic life and work of a tragic genius. “The saddest people are always the funniest,” learns Rob Hughes

Suffering Jukebox

David Berman on record

“Being remembered holdsno value withme”

IN April 2019, with Purple Mountains on the

Lonnie Liston Smith

From Pharoah to Guru, the cosmic travels of a jazz-funk keyboard maestro

Watcher OF THE skıes

Full moons! Infinitely expandable data globes! Humankind as “sex machines” for sentient robots! Welcome to the “hi-tech, handmade” real world of PETER GABRIEL. Holding court in his London home studio, rock’s most progressive nabob exclusively unveils his ambitious plans for i/o — his first album of new music for 20 years. “I’m an awkward sod,” he reveals to Michael Bonner. “I like doing things differently…”

PLAYING FOR TIME

“HIS PROCESS? THAT’S A TRICKY THING”

Tony Levin YORKTILLYER;CHRISWALTER/WIREIMAGE CAN you tell us about

“HE WAS COVERED IN MUD”

David Rhodes YORKTILLYER CAN you tell us about

“HE LEFT ON HIS BIKE WITH A WIG ON”

Drummer Manu Katché shares memories

WEYES BLOOD, SAM BURTON

Chalk, Brighton, February 14

JAMES YORKSTON, NINA PERSSON & THE SECONDHANDORCHESTRA

Summerhall, Edinburgh, February 3

FILMS

A fizzing, funny British rom-com; signals from the future in ’30s Kent; a chic Chilean elder joins the resistance…

DANCE CRAZE BFI 8/10

Immersive shapshot of 1980, as 2 Tone bands create mayhem around the UK

BOOKS

Shadowman: LeonRussell at the A&M Studio, LA, December

Not Fade Away

Fondly remembered this month…

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Pauline Black

The Selecter’s longtime leader reveals what’s on her radio: “Certain songs are pivotal in your life because they make you stray off the path”