Amid the praise lavished on their roistering live shows, Fat Dog drew a small number of doubters with their 2024 debut album, WOOF.. Some dubbed their dance-punk eruptions “trite”, others one-note. Tight, fresh and frequently expansive, the south Londoners’ second album issues often jubilant answers to such doubts. While a US tour left the band faintly frayed at the edges, a quick return to recording has maintained their momentum. Better yet, they channel a gathering capacity for connection into the tunes and lyrics of Cancel Me (I’m Tired), scoping out room to roam within their well-honed good-time vigour.
Opener ‘Smile & Wave’ implies as much, eschewing the portentous overtures of WOOF. as it kicks off as if out of nowhere, a band caught in…
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It’s not a coincidence that Wishy interpolate both “Femme Fatale” by the Velvet Underground and a Bible class singalong within the same track. They never sing the actual words to “I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, down in my heart” — that Sunday school staple you may know from The Simpsons — but the sentiment is heavily implied when the melody tumbles over the outro of “Mona Lisa.” Nature’s Pill, Wishy’s second album, is all about love’s dangerous intoxication (fatale of course meaning deadly) and how, when it goes south, you’ve got everything you need within yourself. The track’s final lyric: “Still life so incomplete now / I’m filling it out myself.” Another case in point, from the record’s closing moments: “Heaven is a state of mind.”
The Indianapolis quintet hasn’t turned to…
Collected Classics: Rare & Live is a 13-track compilation album by legendary singer-songwriter and guitarist Richard Thompson. Released as an exclusive free CD accompanying the November 2026 issue of Uncut Magazine, the compilation spans rare studio tracks and standout live recordings curated with commentary from Thompson himself.
…”We speak to the guitarist, singer and songwriter at length inside the issue, but he also took the time to talk us through this compilation, a handy refresher before the release of new album Hippies, Thugs and Heroes.
Thompson himself tends to think in terms of songs rather than albums, so he’s relaxed about compilations of his music.
For the most recent offering on Easy Eye Sound, the Swiss-Ecuadorian siblings Hermanos Gutiérrez wanted to craft an instrumental love letter to South America. The resulting ten-track breezy affair, Los Ojos Del Cóndor, is an elegant journey through these soundscapes.
Alejandro & Estevan Gutiérrez worked in Nashville with studio friends and producer Dan Auerbach, keeping a visual cue in mind while recording: a lone condor soaring across the Andes. That description, as well as the brothers’ travel and heritage, led to the album’s instrumental offerings, which mix nylon-string plucking and light rhythms with moaning organ and chango guitar strumming, an instrument straight from the Andes.
The opening “Canto Andino” sets the tone and…
Israel Nash has spent the past twenty years painting the familiar vistas of Americana in startling new colors. From his lo-fi New York Town (2009) to the Horse-With-No-Name heights of 2013’s Rain Plains and the Wilco-flavored anthems on Lifted (2018), Nash lets his influences spill over his songs while pushing forward into the genre’s future. On Sweetheart of the Rodeo, Nash takes his sensibility both backward and forward in reimagining the landmark 1968 record by The Byrds. Like a master archivist restoring a sepia film to Technicolor, Nash breathes new dimension into these classic songs, rendering them timeless.
In 1968, the Byrds found a new voice in Gram Parsons, who was hired to play keyboard but spurred the band toward the West.
Contemporary blues-rock powerhouse Jovin Webb returns with his second album, Son of a Sinner, on Blind Pig Records. Produced by multi-Grammy winner Tom Hambridge and recorded in Nashville, the 11-song collection finds the talented vocalist, songwriter, and drummer digging into stories about life in all its flawed, messy, vulnerable glory. There’s plenty of honesty here, but Webb also knows when to lighten things up with a little fun and humor.
Raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and shaped by Southern culture and the church, Webb sings from experience. He’s multi-faceted–soulful, smooth and sorrowful, hard-edged and gritty. His songs on Son of a Sinner, several co-written with Hambridge, are equal parts swagger and grace.
Both solo and with The Monkees – and various permutations thereof – Davy Jones spent decades on the road sharing the music he loved all over the world. While a Monkees setlist would be painstakingly constructed, the solo Jones was far more freewheeling, incorporating new and old songs and crossing genre lines with abandon. Now 7A Records celebrates the late singer’s legacy with a new live compendium.
Let Me Entertain You: On the Road with Davy boasts two dozen concert recordings spanning 1979- 2003 from venues in the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan. Entertainment was in David’s bones: the Manchester native had been entertaining audiences since his youth. As a teenager in Great Britain, he’d appeared on…
…includes two unreleased tracks, era singles, and full-album demos.
It’s no shock that a band made up of former members of Deerhunter and Carnivores would be good, since both those bands are. It’s more of a shock just how good Omni is. With ex-Deerhunter guitarist Frankie Broyles and ex-Carnivores bassist /vocalist Philip Frobos writing a batch of songs that combine the best aspects of brainy, hooky bands like Josef K, Television, and Magazine, then recording them with another ex-Carnivore, Billy Mitchell, on drums, Omni’s Deluxe is a stunning debut. Recorded in sparkling lo-fi by yet another ex-Carnivore, Nathaniel Higgins, the trio mostly sticks to the basic guitar-bass-drums-vocals setup as the album careens from one…
…includes 3 intimate acoustic tracks (“Fall in Fall Out”, “I’m Breaking Out”, and “A Black Moon”)
It is always fascinating recognising influences in a band or artists style, but noting how they have been adapted, morphed into something different and new. For the Brighton based three-piece rock band Tigercub, influences like Nirvana and Queens of The Stone Age are easy and obvious to grasp, but it is also apparent how the trio push through into their own style and making.
For those not in the know, Tigercub consist of Jamie Stephen Hall (vocals/guitar), Jimi Wheelwright (bass) and James Allix (drums). For the last 15 years they have honed and refined their alternative rock sound, and their albums so far – particularly with 2021’s As Blue As Indigo – have seen…
Even at her most austere and experimental, Susanne Sundfør has a way of creating amenable and approachable music that is infused with her own brand of idiosyncratic enchantment, and so it is with Revelations of Divine Love. The singer-songwriter’s seventh album is inspired by recent motherhood and a profound connection with the texts of the fourteenth-century English mystic and anchoress Julian of Norwich. Sundfør recorded this album live in an empty but acoustically conducive Norwegian church with just her voice and the accompaniment of a pipe organ. If that configuration sounds like it might be sparse, her voice is a rich and powerful instrument in itself, and more than a match for the room-shaking timbre of a finely tuned and pristine organ.
In The Juniper Tree, an interrelationship between the ethereal and terrestrial seems to cloak the everpresent Icelandic landscape. The film, written and directed by Nietzchka Keene in 1986 and released in 1990, is disbelieving of binaries such as life and death, natural and supernatural, stillness and unrest. It is perhaps best known as the genesis point for Björk’s career as an actor, but in its compelling feminist retelling of the Brothers Grimm story of the same name it recasts tropes of witches and wicked stepmothers as women in tune with nature’s gifts and fighting for survival under the suspicious gaze of patriarchy. Throughout, the land dwarfs the characters, and a sense of studied quietude saturates even the tensest moments. Tenderness and terror…
A molten extension of Daydream Nation-era Sonic Youth, the Stooges’ drill-press rhythms, and early Dinosaur Jr., Raise should have been made by young record shop rats from the Midwest. Adding to this is a fascination with the open road; only two of the album’s nine songs do not directly reference cars or driving. It’s no real surprise, then, that this Oxford, England-based band found a home on Stateside turntables that were otherwise Anglophobic, despite being pigeonholed as shoegazers. In all fairness, the band was about as exciting to watch as any actual shoegaze band, and Adam Franklin’s vocals were buried deep within the studio and live mixes. (Flying leg kicks, windmills, and eye contact couldn’t have been all that possible with an unwieldy battery…
In Steve Reich’s music, repetition is a method of survival. A phrase returns carrying the microscopic damage of having been heard, while attention acquires an unfamiliar capacity for desire. Recordings on ECM brings that reciprocal transformation back to vinyl, gathering the three albums ECM released between 1978 and 1982. Revisiting the collection issued on CD in 2016, this three-LP edition, one day shy of the composer’s 90th birthday.
Sourced from the original analogue master tapes, the records reproduce their original sleeves; archival photographs accompany Paul Griffiths’s liner notes. Inside the music, strict procedures open improbable apertures, and counting becomes a form of surrender.
Released in March 1983, Magical Ring is the seventh studio album by Irish folk group Clannad and marks a pivotal moment in the band’s evolution from traditional Celtic folk towards the atmospheric sound that would later define much of their international success. The album blends Irish-language songs, traditional melodies, and contemporary production, creating a rich and evocative listening experience.
Its standout track, the haunting “Theme from Harry’s Game”, became Clannad’s breakthrough hit, reaching No. 5 on the UK Singles Chart and introducing their distinctive sound to a wider audience.
Other notable tracks include “Newgrange”, a fan favourite showcasing the band’s ethereal…
In the seven-year gap between her second LP, Midnight, and her next album, Stef Chura broke off an engagement, left her home state and roots in the Detroit indie scene for places south, gave birth to her first child, and then eventually returned to Detroit. In the meantime, she headed back to the studio with songs in hand that bear the bruises of someone who has a few hard-won life lessons under their belt but is still trying to make sense of it all. The album was recorded at Chase Park Transduction in Athens, Georgia with none other than the Apples in Stereo’s Robert Schneider, celebrated for his production work with Neutral Milk Hotel, among others. He both produced and played on the album. (Schneider had long been teaching theoretical math…
… includes three CDs: the original mixes on CD1, the 2026 remix on CD2, and a third disc of completely unreleased studio tracks and outtakes like “Sad Suit” and “Aborted Soliloquy”, alongside live performances from their 2000 tour.
Released in 1999, J-Tull Dot Com was Jethro Tull’s 20th studio album. Anderson and company navigated the 1980s well, but the ’90s proved to have new obstacles, with CDs, the beginning of bands using the internet and a new bass player (Jonathon Noyce). Martin Barre (guitars, backing vocals) and Ian Anderson remained the core of the band with Doane Perry (drums) and Andrew Giddings (keyboards) who had been with the band since 1984 and 1991, respectively, at this point. And yet, make no mistake,…
…remastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road. A 2CD deluxe edition offers an interesting selection of bonus tracks (20 in total) including previously unreleased David Kosten mixes of some album tracks, unheard demos and BBC live sessions and recordings.
Starsailor was already a critic’s darling in the band’s native England during mid-2001, and the group’s painfully melodic debut, Love Is Here, poised the band to rise in the shadows of Doves, Coldplay, and Travis. Starsailor, however, isn’t as polished as its counterparts, but that’s not to say Love Is Here isn’t a beautiful piece of work. It’s less lilting than Coldplay’s Parachutes, and frontman James Walsh’s aching vocals shape his angularity as a singer/songwriter. Starsailor is…
Recorded during his summer 2026 run of outdoor UK shows, which brought together a phenomenal band and a setlist spanning the songs that have defined Weller’s musical journey, in performances widely praised by fans and press alike. The album brings together classic tracks and much-loved favourites from across Weller’s remarkable catalogue, spanning The Jam, The Style Council and his solo work, alongside a cover of the Curtis Mayfield classic, Move On Up. Talking about the live album, Paul said: “We hope this live recording gives justice to the experience that we and the audience felt on these tour dates. We all felt they were very special shows – all of ’em! This recording is straight off the sound board. All real, all true, more power, more love.” Reviewing Weller’s…