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Björk: “I wanted to land on planet 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...
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Aoife Nessa Frances: “There was this crazy excitement – we all felt it”
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...
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Lisa O’Neill – All Of This Is Chance
A couple of years ago Lisa O’Neill fulfilled a lifetime ambition by headlining at the National Concert Hall in Dublin. However, because of Covid restrictions she had to perform in an empty theatre. Or...
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Nostalgia
Two kids grow up inseparable friends in Naples until a shocking teenage incident sees their lives taking very different paths. Deep into midlife they must face a reckoning with their choices and the...
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Broker
Teenage prostitutes, abandoned babies, human traffickers and murderous gangsters: on the face of it, Broker could be one more piece of ghastly news reportage. Instead this might well be the most...
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We’re New Here – Brown Spirits
Melbourne psych trio setting the controls for the heart of the sun, in our MAY 2023 issue of Uncut, available to buy here. When Uncut speaks to Tim Wold, guitarist for Aussie psychonauts Brown Spirits,...
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Depeche Mode – Memento Mori
Maybe Depeche Mode were always destined to assume their final form as a synth duo. Way back in their early days, after they formed at a Basildon school concert in June 1980, they felt a little like a...
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Rye Lane
It’s something of a national embarrassment that the country that produced Shakespeare and Jane Austen has failed to muster a half-decent rom-com in over 100 years (let’s draw a discrete veil for now...
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Lucinda Williams: “It was so satisfying to put the record straight.”
Three years ago, a stroke left medical professionals wondering whether Lucinda Williams would ever walk again. With dogged resilience, however, she returns this spring with her long-awaited memoir and...
View ArticleSpellbound! Siouxsie Sioux’s 20 Greatest Songs
From inauspicious beginnings, as a scratch band of SEX shop denizens blagging their way onto the stage of the 100 Club for Malcolm McLaren’s 1976 punk festival, Siouxsie And The Banshees blazed a trail...
View Article20 minutes with Brian Eno
Brian Eno is nothing if not busy. With his soundtrack to the latest – and final – season of Top Boy on sale imminently, he has just announced that a remastered edition of The Ship album will be...
View ArticleKillers Of The Flower Moon
Sometimes it feels likes like Martin Scorsese is waging a one-man campaign to compensate for American cinema’s capitulation to the forces of Marvel, Mattel and franchise exploitation. Killers Of The...
View ArticleThe Planet That You’re On: inside Lankum’s Uncut CD
Welcome to this month’s free 15-track CD – exclusively curated for Uncut by Lankum. The band developed in Dublin’s traditional music clubs, but have long tapped into wider international networks of...
View ArticleSheer Mag – Playing Favorites
For a while there Sheer Mag were the last great American indie band, releasing singles, EPs, compilations and at least two classic albums on their own shoestring Wilsun RC imprint based out of...
View ArticleRide – Interplay
Bliss it was to be alive in 1990, but to be young was very heaven. When Ride first stormed out of the gates in that shoegaze spring, they had an irresistible coltish energy to them. The presiding...
View ArticleThe Woman Who Fell To Earth
In this month’s Uncut, we speak to Annie Clark, aka St Vincent, about her the dramas and demons behind her sublime seventh album, All Born Screaming. Now read on for an extract from our interview…...
View ArticleBack To Black
It’s been 13 years since she died, but it often feels like Amy Winehouse never went away. The details of her life, all the squalor and the glory, continue to be raked over in the tabloids. Every new...
View ArticleThe Beach Boys
“It’s miraculous that we’ve lasted 60 years,” says Mike Love at the start of Disney +’s new Beach Boys documentary. “But the reason we’ve lasted so long is because we’re family.” By my estimation this...
View ArticleJake Xerxes Fussell – When I’m Called
Buy When I’m Called on vinyl here Every Wednesday afternoon, Jake Xerxes Fussell hosts a radio show with his pal Jefferson Currie II on WHUP FM, a community station in Hillsborough, North Carolina....
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