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“Wearing the face that she keeps ina jar by the door”

ON THE WAY

Steve Gunn on the albums that inspired Other You

SHANNON AND THE CLAMS

Year Of The Spider

ACID MOTHERS GURU GURU Tokugoya

Japanese psych meets krautrock legends: a face-melting wipeout

ALABAMA 3 Step 13

More acid country grooves from Brixton ragtags

DAVID CROSBY For Free

Personal reflection and pithy humour, with a few pals.

SON VOLT Electro Melodier

AMERICANA Country, bluegrass, folk and more

MARISA ANDERSON & WILLIAM TYLER Lost Futures

Wandering guitar soli join forces

GASPARD AUGE Escapades

Debut solo album from French electronica aesthete

AZURE RAY Remedy

Omaha folk-pop duo end long hiatus with further loveliness

BIG BIG TRAIN Common Ground

Prog history buffs turn an eye to current events

JADE BIRD Different Kind of Light

Smoother second outing for US-focused Brit songwriter

MAX BLOOM Pedestrian

Endearing introspective solo LP from former Yuck guitarist-vocalist

DEAN BLUNT Black Metal 2

More dark stuff from UK rap’s trickster prince

BNNY Everything

Chicagoans’ debut is one raw reckoning with grief

MOLLY BURCH Romantic Images

Austin songwriter goes synthpop

CHORUSING Half Mirror

Analogue gearhead’s first, five years in the making

LUCINDA CHUA Antidotes

Bewitching compilation of south London musician ’s early work

MARISA ANDERSON & WILLIAM TYLER

REVELATIONS

SAULT Nine

Fifth LP in two years from the mysterious London soul collective

CROSSWORD

One of two copies of Steve Gunn’s Other You on LP

15 Easy Pieces

Karen Black was one of the finest film actors of the 1970s. Now Cass McCombs has revealed her lost parallel career as a singer-songwriter

“It was like a dance”

Scary Monsters sleeve designer Edward Bell on his “extraordinary experience” with David Bowie

Brotherhood of breath

Meet the new school of adventurous saxophonists pushing their craft to physical extremes

A QUICK ONE

GWENDAL LE FLEM; JONATHAN DURAND; MARCELLA CYTRYNOWICZ; HAROLD CUNNINGHAM/GETTY

Juni Habel

I’M NEW HERE

UNCUT PLAYLIST

On the stereo this month

Heavy Rotatıon

15 tracks of the month’s best new music

Look out for the birds!

AN AUDIENCE WITH MERCURY REV

STEVE GUNN Other You MATADOR

A beguiling and mercurial folk-rock gem.

CHVRCHES

Screen Violence VIRGIN/EMI 8/10 Ge nre-mashing synthpop bliss

JOSIENNE CLARKE

A Small Unknowable Thing

THE COLD STARES

Heavy Shoes MASCOT 6/10 Darkness pervades Indiana-based duo’s

DARKSIDE

Spiral MATADOR 7/10 Challenging, captivating arrangements from artisan

INDIGO DE SOUZA

Any Shape You Take

MADI DIAZ

History Of A Feeling ANTI 8/10 Emotions laid

ANDERSON EAST

Maybe We Never Die

STEPHEN FRETWELL

Busy Guy

THE GOON SAX

Mirror II MATADOR 8/10 Third fine album in

THE HELICOPTER OF THE HOLY

GHOST Afters 8/10 Indie luminaries deliver a carefully orchestrated

ISHMAEL ENSEMBLE

Visions Of Light

ÌXTAHUELE

Dharmaland

DANKO JONES

Power Trio MATE IN GERMANY 7/10 Canadian veterans stick

DURAND JONES & THE INDICATIONS

Private Space COLEMINE/DEAD OCEANS 8/10 Mo re sweet retro-soul

JUNGLE

Loving In Stereo AWAL 7/10 Dance duo’s third album

GARY KEMP

Insolo COLUMBIA 6/10 Political despatches meet personal diary entries

LES FILLES DE ILLIGHADAD

At Pioneer Works SAHEL SOUNDS 7/10 Tuareg women’s live

LITTLE STEVEN & THE DISCIPLES OF SOUL

Summer Of Sorcery Live!

MAPLE GLIDER

To Enjoy Is The Only Thing

WILLY MASON

Already Dead

MCLEOD

Brother MOOLAH ROUGE 7/10 A heartfelt eulogy soaked in

JAMES McMURTRY

The Horses And The Hounds

SAM MEHRAN

Cold Brew

THE MURLOCS

Bittersweet Demons ATO 7/10 Infectious tunes with ’70s dressing

NATHAN SALSBURG

Psalms NO QUARTER 8/10 Talented folk guitarist makes his

LIARS

Hallucinogens and history on Angus Andrew’s 10th album.

LIAM KAZAR

Due North

GREENTEA PENG

Man Made AMF/EMI 7/10 Stylish nu-soul debut cloaked

LUKAS NELSON & PROMISE OF THE REAL

A Few Stars Apart FANTASY 8/10 Finding joy amid

WILLY MASON

On a nine-year wait fornew songs that ‘live in real time’

THE BEACH BOYS

Feel Flows: The Sunflower & Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971

SAILING ON

Three more essential post-’71 Beach Boys albums

Q&A

Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston on the Feel Flows era

GEORGE HARRISON

All Things Must Pass: 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe

AZTEC CAMERA

Post-Postcard, there’s still a lot to love.

GENTLE GIANT

Fee-fi-fo-fum, here’s the pick of their albums

CHRISTINE PERFECT

Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

JACKIE LEVEN

THE SPECIALIST

UP WITH THE 37d03d

Deep in Upstate New York, The National’s AARON DESSNER is masterminding the next phase of BIG RED MACHINE – the musical collective he founded with Bon Iver’s JUSTIN VERNON. Friends and contributors – including Fleet Foxes’ ROBIN PECKNOLD and ANAÏS MITCHELL – join Laura Barton to discuss community, collaboration and creative “mess”… Reveals Dessner, “We’ve never had a master plan!”

MACHINES THAT GO PING!

The records that led to How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?

THEN PLAY ON

There’s not much that can keep LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM down. Not heart surgery, the pandemic or even his exit from Fleetwood Mac. As he resumes his solo career as one of rock’s most discreet musical radicals, Buckingham tells Tom Pinnock about false starts, his “crisp and dirty” new songs, the death of Peter Green and the ongoing soap opera around his alma mater. “Who knows, maybe the five of us will end up doing something…”

GOING HIS OWN WAY

The best of Buckingham’s other recordings

Move On Up!

CURTIS MAYFIELD covered a vast amount of ground during the ’60s with The Impressions – but as a solo artist he went into overdrive. Bandmates and family tell Graeme Thomson about the soul superstar’s creative peak in the early ’70s – from pioneering anthems of empowerment to killer live sessions, a blaxploitation soundtrack and beyond…

“He was a poet and a prophet…”

PAUL WELLER on meeting one of the best

CURTIS

1970-1972

ABRACADABRA!

“I can change it round…”: The Beatles filming

REVOLVER REVEALED!

14 facts for 14 tracks

REEL LOVE

As Peter Jackson’s upcoming film THE BEATLES: GET BACK will remind us, John, Paul, George and Ringo were attractive personalities and the camera was there to capture it – the more spontaneously the better. Peter Watts charts a Fabulous course from Pathé newsreels and pop promos to the roof of Apple and beyond

Ripley Johnson

Three aliases; one long, strange trip…

Lone Star State Of Mind

Blending avowedly ‘retro’ R&B with lo-fi garage grit, LEON BRIDGES became a Grammy-winning Texan success story. Back home in Fort Worth, he tells Stephen Deusner of the nocturnal LA sessions that birthed his third album Gold-Diggers Sound. “It’s hard to unlock a sexy vibe at 11am,” he reasons

Summer In The City

How the perennial heatwave hit started out in a teenage bedroom and was almost scuppered by a car crash: “It was the deal-maker for us”

“GOD IS A BATHTUB!”

It is 1987 and the SUGARCUBES’ extraordinary debut single, “Birthday” is galloping up the charts. As the band put the finishing touches to their breakthrough album Life’s Too Good, Melody Maker’s Chris Roberts learns the Icelandic art of creation, and inspiration from BJÖRK, EINAR and their cohorts

ELIZA AND MARTIN CARTHY: EAST

Brighton Dome, May 29

BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD

Komedia, Brighton, June 17

BOOKS

Clevor boy: Baxter Dury with dad Ian and

FILMS

Vigilantes in Denmark, prison dramas in Côte d’Ivoire, a boy of beauty, women in love and migrants in limbo

REVIEWED THIS MONTH

ANDERS OVERGAARD RIDERS OF JUSTICE Directed by Anders

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THE WORLD TO COME OPENS JULY 23 Mona

SUMMER OF SOUL

Revelatory footage of Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly Stone and others unearthed after 50 years

BOB DYLAN

ODDS AND ENDS

THE ROLLING STONES

A BIGGER BANG - LIVE ON COPACABANA BEACH

THE STORY OF FILM: AN ODYSSEY

8/10 NETWORK Tenth anniversary Blu-ray debut fora landmark series

Not Fade Away

Fondly remembered this month…

PETER ZINOVIEFF

Synth pioneer (1933­-2021)

DAVID REDWARDS

Datblygu frontman (1964­-2021)

ELLEN McILWAINE

Slide guitarist and singer (1945­-2021)

JON HASSELL

‘Fourth World’ explorer (1937-2021)

GIFT OF GAB

Blackalicious rapper (1971­-2021)

RAUL DE SOUZA

Jazz-funk trombonist (1934-­2021)

DAVID CUTLER LEWIS

Ambrosia keyboardist DOB (UNKNOWN­-2021)

FREDERIC RZEWSKI

Pianist and composer (1938­-2021)

DEAN PARRISH

Northern Soul hitmaker (1942-­2021)

JOHNNY TRUDELL

Motown horn player (1939­-2021)

RAB McCULLOUGH

Belfast bluesman (1948­-2021)

GRACE GRIFFITH

Celtic folk custodian (1956­-2021)

EDDY DETROIT

Underground scenester (1952-­2021)

NED BEATTY

Esteemed character actor (1937­-2021)

JOHNNY SOLINGER

Skid Row singer (1965­-2021)

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