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Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd Uncut is the essential magazine about rock music, written by people who love that music as much as you do. Every month, it features the most comprehensive and trustworthy album reviews section in the world. There are in-depth interviews with the finest musicians of the past five decades, and with the exciting new artists who are following in their great tradition. Insightful, informative, passionate about extraordinary music – that’s Uncut.

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“Nobody was like him” ANDY GILL | 1956-2020 • A “wild and exciting” post-punk Hendrix – Gang Of Four’s Andy Gill remembered by his bandmates and friends

Play it Koolie • Four-fifths of Super Furry Animals reconvene as Das Koolies. It’s all about the dolphins, they insist…

Totally wired • From East Berlin to Cluster & Eno , the electronic adventures of Hans-Joachim Roedelius

A QUICK ONE

“It’s a magical place” • Welcome to Sonic Ranch studios in West Texas, haven and inspiration for Bon Iver, Big Thief, Oh Sees and more…

Juniore • soundtrack Fresh from the this Killing French Eve trio aim to cause , “a joyful apocalypse” with their stylish garage-pop

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month...

DIG IN! • 15 tracks of the month’s best new music

“I’mliving my , everyday” AN AUDIENCE WITH GREG DULLI • Poised to release his first ever solo album, the sometime Afghan Whig and Twilight Singer talks Prince, TV talent shows and hanging out in Hull

ARBOURETUM • Baltimore folk-rockers go back to nature. By Peter Watts

SLEEVE NOTES

Q&A • Dave Heumann on watery metaphors and channelling the British folk sound

NADIA REID • The New Zealand songwriter makes her best album yet.

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A to Z

SWAMP DOGG • Jerry Williams’ first proper country album.

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CALIFONE • Tim Rutili on music as therapy and “misanthropic weirdness”

AMERICANA • Country, bluegrass, folk and more

ANERIVANA ROUND-UP

HONEY HARPER • Celestial honky-tonk and cosmic country

CORNERSHOP • Everything’s rosy on band’s upbeat seventh.

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CIRCLES AROUND THE SUN • Posthumous psych-funk jams from late guitarist Neal Casal and friends.

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Q&A • Adam MacDougall: “It’s strange to have this be our ‘happy’ record”

CAROLINE ROSE • The continuing development of a budding auteur

REAL ESTATE • Yet more lush, oft-exquisite, guitar pop.

SLEEVE NOTES

Q&A • Martin Courtney: questioning his career

SOCCER MOMMY • Sophie Allison contradicts her sound with strange ideas

US GIRLS • Protean artist strikes a newly personal note, with myriad supporting voices.

Q&A • Meg Remy challenges herself

SLEEVE NOTES

KAREN DALTON • Beat girl: Greenwich Village enigma’s first recordings re-emerge.

Q&A • Karen Dalton’s friend and collaborator Joe Loop speaks to Uncut

THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND • Half a century of Southern rock made by ramblin men.

A to Z

CHARLIE PARKER • Tracking the Bird’s bebop revolution.

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE SPECIALIST

BACK FROM THE FUTURE • Jetpacks at the ready for SHABAKA HUTCHINGS, cosmic torchbearer for the London jazz scene. Not content with his innovative sonic odysseys in Sons Of Kemet and The Comet Is Coming, the serial collaborator returns with Shabaka And The Ancestors, whose epic new album burns with insurrectionary, political and spiritual energies. John Lewis visits Hutchings at...