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Uncut is your essential guide to the month’s best music. Every issue, our comprehensive and trustworthy reviews section showcases the best new releases and reissues, while our in-depth features section includes interviews with the greatest names in music from the past five decades as well as the classic artists of tomorrow. For over 20 years, this iconic magazine has been the authority on all things music, featuring exclusive interviews with some of the world's biggest stars, stunning photography from on and off the stage, and unparalleled album reviews from the people who really know. You can be sure that the music fanatics behind Uncut magazine will always strive to bring you the best features, interviews, and reviews. Each issue also brings you an in-depth article on a music icon, from past or present, giving you inside access you won't find anywhere else. Uncut is insightful, informative, and passionate about music.

Editor’s Notes

The Soft parade! • Yo La Tengo reunite The Soft Boys on stage in New York

Now I’m a cowgirl • Mackenzie Scott, aka Torres, on the new queer country album she’s made with Julien Baker of Boygenius

Tangerine dreamers • A new book by Wolfgang Seidel – once of influential Berlin bands Ton Steine Scherben and Eruption – aims to reclaim krautrock from the Brits

“There was such a sense of mystery and magic” • Photographer Dean Chalkley on shooting Jack and Meg at the height of White Stripes mania in 2005

In on the film maker • A new fan-focused Fugazi doc captures the DC punk purists at their most inspirationally intense

A Quick One

Sam Moss • Virginia-based woodworker carving songs out of life’s “weird scraps”

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

UNCUT PRESENTS… A WILCO EXCLUSIVE!

The latest greats • Those previous Wilco/Uncut projects

VASHTI BUNYAN • The bucolic singer songwriter on Nick Drake, Monty Python and her remarkable second life: “I still don’t quite understand it!”

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EDWYN COLLINS Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation AED • Hope eclipses despair as Collins cross-pollinates his various influences.

EDITH FROST • The long-awaited return of a cult country chanteuse.

A to Z • This month…

SAM FENDER • The canny chanter comes to the crossroads on vexed but heartfelt third album.

ANDY BELL • The ex-Ride and Oasis member on euphoria and minimalism

DAVID GRUBBS • The US experimentalist on mixing improvistion with composition

IMMERSION | SUSS

WILL STRATTON

LONNIE HOLLEY • Turning pain into songs of love and forgiveness.

THE TUBS • London indie quartet’s personal, stellar second.

PANDA BEAR • Noah Lennox’s warm yet forlorn, emotionally open seventh.

STEVE REICH Collected Works • Lovingly curated box reminds us of the pioneering American composer’s diversity and invention over 60 years.

GODLEY & CREME • Massive retrospective charts Mancunian duo’s journey from epic prog-punk disasters to glossy art-pop hits.

A to Z • This month…

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

ELLA FITZGERALD • The queen of vocal jazz, live in the Summer of Love.

THE SPECIALIST

REVELATIONS

COMING NEXT MONTH…

THE MAGIC GARDENER • There’s something stirring up at the allotment where RICHARD DAWSON has been carefully tending a new album, End Of The Middle. The latest blossoming in the singer-songwriter’s compelling and deeply unique body of music, the album explores the dynamics and trauma of families – with typically idiosyncratic results. Peering into the polytunnel, we discover how lightning strikes, gnomes,...