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“Iam fine-tuningmysoul/To theuniversalwavelength” AS I write this, most

DVD, Blu-ray and TV

City slickers: New York Doll David Johansen and

BOOKS

Cave’s humour and insight into the human condition shine through

BOOKS EXTRA!

The halcyon days of the music press, memorialised by three inky-fingered insiders

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Art for Ra’s sake!

A new book celebrates the helio-eccentric worlds of Sun Ra sleeve design

“Just make it up!”

Kid Congo Powers’ amazing adventures with The Gun Club, The Cramps, The Bad Seeds and beyond

Doo it again

Original Can vocalist Malcolm Mooney is back with an intrepid new band, featuring members of Sonic Youth and Yo La Tengo

A QUICK ONE

GAIL BUTENSKY Here comes your mag! As they

Great bunch of Fellers

Reappraising the lo-fi high jinks of alt.rock pioneers Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

Myriam Gendron

Enigmatic French-Canadian, reconfiguring folk songs and Dorothy Parker poems

UNCUT PLAYLIST

On the stereo this month...

Big Time Sounds

15 tracks of the month’s best new music

AN AUDIENCE WITH... Cat Power

The inimitable Chan Marshall on turning 50, dogs versus cats, the “atrocity” of modern-day America and an encounter with “God Dylan”

BRIAN ENO FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE UMC

THE UNCUT GUIDE TO THIS MONTH’S KEY RELEASES

VOICE MEMOS

The best of Eno’s 21st-century vocal catalogue

COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS

Loose Future FAT POSSUM

ABRAXAS

Monte Carlo SUICIDESQUEEZE 6/10 Garage-rock gumbo spiced with

MIKE ADAMS AT HIS HONEST WEIGHT

Graphic Blandishment JOYFUL NOISE 8/10 Clever, heart-on-sleeve power

THE COMET IS COMING

Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam IMPULSE!

THE ADVISORY CIRCLE

Full Circle GHOST BOX

MARINA ALLEN

Centrifics FIRE

ALVVAYS

Blue Rev TRANSGRESSIVE

THE BIG MOON

Here Is Everything FICTION

PETE ASTOR

Time On Earth TAPETE

PETER MATTHEW BAUER

Flowers FORTUNETELLERS

BITCHIN BAJAS

Bajascillators DRAG CITY

BJÖRK

Fossora ONELITTLEINDEPENDENT

THE BLACKHEART ORCHESTRA

Hotel Utopia CEANDAR

BLANCMANGE

Private View LONDON

BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN

Rolling Golden Holy 37D03D

MICHELLE BRANCH

The Trouble With Fever AUDIOEAGLE/NONESUCH/WARNER

BROKEN BELLS

Into The Blue AWAL

THE BUG CLUB

Green Dream in F# BINGO

CHRIS CANTERBURY

Quaalude Lullabies BFD/THE ORCHARD

ANDREW COMBS

Sundays LOOSE

CHARLEY CROCKETT

The Man From Waco SON OF DAVY/THIRTY TIGERS

JOHN FULLBRIGHT

The Liar BLUE DIRT/THIRTY TIGERS

LUCRECIA DALT

¡Ay! RVNG INTL

DAPHNI

Cherry JIAOLONG

ALELA DIANE

Looking Glass NAIVE

DRUGDEALER

Hiding In Plain Sight MEXICANSUMMER

DUNGEN

En Är För Mycket Och Tusen Aldrig Nog MEXICANSUMMER

GENTLY TENDER

Take Hold Of Your Promise SO YOUNG

GILLA BAND

Most Normal ROUGHTRADE

GOAT

Oh Death ROCKET

LORI GOLDSTON

High And Low SOFABURN

LUKE HAINES & PETER BUCK

All The Kids Are Super Bummed Out CHERRYRED

KEIJI HAINO + SUMAC

Into This Juvenile Apocalypse Our Golden Blood To Pour Let Us Never THRILL JOCKEY

ROBYN HITCHCOCK

Shufflemania! TINY GHOST

THE UNTHANKS

Sorrows Away RABBLEROUSER

LORAINE JAMES

Building Something Beautiful For Me PHANTOM LIMB

KUTIMAN

Open SIYAL

THE LIGHTNING SEEDS

See You In The Stars BMG

LIRAZ Roya

GLITTERBEAT

DAN LYONS AND THE TENANTS

Shuttered Dreams SHAKER

SOUAD MASSI

Sequana WRASSE

ELIJAH McLAUGHLIN ENSEMBLE

II TOMPKINSSQUARE

MINIMAL SCHLAGER

Love, Sex & Dreams DUCHESSBOX

MINRU

Liminality MORRMUSIC

BUZZCOCKS

Sonics In The Soul CHERRYRED

BILL CALLAHAN

DRAG CITY REALITY

LYNDON MORGANS

The Songdog mainman on the need to shed his skin

REVELATIONS

WILL SHEFF

DRY CLEANING

Dry Cleaning: “as casual as a conversation in

Q&A

Dry Cleaning: “We don’t plan anything” You’ve gone

SLEEVE NOTES

1 Anna Calls From The Arctic 2 Kwenchy

The Making Of... Babylon’s Burning

A bassist’s warm-up routine and a prescient lyric tapping into a mood of urban unrest gives a west London punk quartet their debut hit

Sweet Rhapsody

When LAMONT DOZIER died on August 8, 2022,

Films

Getting to the bottom of sonic research; another Leonard Cohen biog; a charming lo-fi fantasy; and more…

JOE STRUMMER

Joe Strummer 002: the Mescaleros Years

EXTRAORDINARY JOE

Strummer post-Clash, pre-Mescaleros

Q&A

Mescalero Scott Shields: “It was very poignant”

PINK FLOYD

Animals (2018 Remix)

A to Z

This month…

Q&A

Aubrey Powell, Hipgnosis: “Roger wanted it to be

REVELATIONS

JELLYFISH

THE CURE

Wis h (reissue, 1992)

SUNBURNED HAND OF THE MAN

Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE SPECIALIST

JOYCE

COMING NEXT MONTH...

W E’LL be taking a look at Cazimi,

TAKIN’ OFF!

From child prodigy to jazz colossus, HERBIE HANCOCK has repeatedly revolutionised music. In a rare audience with the rockit man, he tells Graeme Thomson about his remarkable career, alongside giants including Miles Davis and Joni Mitchell, and as a formidable solo artist in his own right. But what keeps this tireless innovator going into his ninth decade? “I like to be ahead of the curve,” he says. “I’m trying to make a curve!”

HANCOCK AND LAMAR: THE TRUTH!

R UMOURS have been circulating that Hancock’s next

HERBIE THROUGH THE DECADES

A buyers’ guide for every era

INTO THE MYSTIC

Depressed and anxious following the release of her remarkable debut album Land Of No Junction in 2020, Dubliner AOIFE NESSA FRANCES headed west to spend lockdown with her father and sisters in County Clare. Reinvigorated by the experience, she’s returned with a dark, dreamy and defiant second album, Protector. “Music is magic,” she tells Stephen Troussé as she leads Uncut through the landscape the record grew out of…

THE MUSIC THAT MADE PROTECTOR

JIM SULLIVAN UFO (1969) Sullivan’s self-released debut album

THE NEW COSMIC IRISH MUSIC

VILLAGERS Conor O’Brien is a notable guest on

STILL REELIN’ IN THE YEARS

Fifty years ago, Can’t Buy A Thrill introduced STEELY DAN’s impeccable brand of hipster logic – and the whip-smart songwriting partnership of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. To celebrate, Uncut has assembled a cast of Dan aficionados – including DAVID CROSBY, ST VINCENT, PADDY McALOON, AIMEE MANN, BRUCE HORNSBY, JOAN WASSER and LLOYD COLE – to explore the band’s original run of unimpeachable studio albums. “They’re the American Beatles,” learns Graeme Thomson

RAPPER’S DELIGHT

Steely Dan are beloved among the hip-hop community and one of the most heavily sampled bands. Talib Kweli explains why…

POST-REUNION TALES

A both parties pursuing FTER the trials of

Ashley Hutchings

The guv’nor of three key folk-rock groups guides us through his highlights

Gone To Earth

Returning to Iceland, BJÖRK found herself putting down roots, reconnecting with her ancestry, losing her mother and becoming a grandmother. The result is Fossora – the final part of her own postdivorce pagan comedy that’s taken her from America, via heaven and hell, back to Reykjavík again. Stand by for revelations involving mushrooms, Icelandic obituary songs, headbanging and “punching dinosaurs in the stomach!” “I just wanted to land on planet Earth and dig my toes into the soil,” she explains to Stephen Troussé

The road to Fossora

Björk’s album is selfconsciously the third part of a trilogy comprising Vulnicara and Utopia, but its themes can be traced back across her 40-year career

Who’s who on Fossora

“She’s seen asa hugely positive icon”: Björk in2022

What’s it like working with Björk?

PETER STRICKLAND, DIRECTOR OF BIOPHILIA (2014) I genuinely

Björk in the movies

With her return to acting in The Northman, here’s a handy guide to her big-screen adventures

CONNECT FESTIVAL

Royal Highland Showgrounds, Edinburgh, August 28

Not Fade Away

Fondly remembered this month…

Brian Auger

The organist extraordinaire on the records that lit his fire: “I had to lay down on the floor to recover!”