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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The Damned reunited • Neat neat neat! The combustible original lineup – Brian, Dave, Captain and Rat – are back together for the first time since 1991

The Girl Who Fell To Earth • Dana Gillespie’s memoir shines a light on Bowie, Lennon, Warhol and Ken Russell. “I lived like you wouldn’t believe!”

Back to the Futurama • As the legendary post-punk festival is rebooted, survivors of the original events remember Joy Division, Peter Murphy’s tights and gallons of grey sludge

In Rainbows • Rose Simpson lifts the lid on the Incredible String Band ’s late-’60s hippie utopia: “We lived what we sang,” she says

A QUICK ONE

Black Country, New Road • Post-rock septet deconstruct the culture in a way that’s both menacing and magical

UNCUT PLAYLIST • On the stereo this month...

KACY MARLON & CLAYTON WILLIAMS AND Plastic Bouquet NEW WEST • A timeless cross-hemisphere collaboration by two Canadians and a Kiwi. By Stephen Deusner

HOW TO BUY... • Kacy & Clayton and/or Marlon

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Q&A • Kacy Lee Anderson and Marlon Williams on duets, distance and “universality of music”

A to Z • This month…

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ANE BRUN • Nordic singer-songwriter opens up two rooms

AMERICANA • Country, bluegrass, folk and more

AMERICANA ROUND-UP

MIKE COOPER • Six strings, field recordings and eco-awareness…

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ERROL LINTON • “The music just spoke to me,” says the blues-harp don

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TRISTAN PERICH • Bits and pieces: the sound artist on bringing things together

WARD WINNERS • The pick of M Ward’s solo output

NEIL YOUNG Archives Volume II: 1972–1976 REPRISE • Inside the gold rush: Young’s legendary ’70s run expanded.

SLEEVE NOTES – ARCHIVES VOLUME II 1972-1976

JONI! PONCHO! DÉJÀ VU 2! • learned What we from Archives II …

“I’M HALLUCINATING LIKE CRAZY…” • What we learned from Archives II …

A to Z

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CHAVEZ • Matt Sweeney on the pros and cons of diverse inspirations

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REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

THE SPECIALIST

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“I wish I knew I was Paul McCartney. It would be so much easier…” • Early 2020. As the “new normal” forces PAUL McCARTNEY to reconfigure a year without theatre projects and a Glastonbury appearance, the former Beatle’s thoughts turn instead to the many promising song fragments on his phone. Six months later, the result is the fun, unselfconscious, often very far-out McCartney III, a sequel to his other albums of a similar name, made in their own kind of self-isolation 50 and 40 years ago. Reflecting on his ongoing communion with John Lennon, on Dylan (“Sometimes I wish I was more like Bob…”), The Beatles and their place in the pantheon, Paul reveals for Michael Bonner the humility of the man behind the music legend. “I got ambitious and made a kitchen table,” he remembers. “I put everything into that table…”

THE FAB THREE •...