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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

Feel the noise! • Oasis make a thundering, emotional return to live action at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium

Between the bars • Why Elliott Smith remains a key inspiration for jazz titan Brad Mehldau and his new collaborator Daniel Rossen

“It was fabulous” • Pop star turned producer Peter Asher talks Bob, Barbra and surviving Beatlemania

A Quick One

Not just talk • Choruses! Love songs! Burnt food! Dry Cleaning summon LP3 with Cate Le Bon in France

Case Oats • Savvy, confessional country-rock with a Wilco connection

Uncut Playlist • On the stereo this month…

ON THIS MONTH’S CD • UNCUT and PAUL WELLER present…

ROY HARPER • The songwriter’s songwriter on Jimmy Page, Pink Floyd, AI and Land Rovering with Simon & Garfunkel

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BIG THIEF Double Infinity 4AD • Cosmic wonder meets intimate storytelling as the trio expand into strange new worlds.

WORLD WITHOUT END • Solo work and collaboration: the road to Double Infinity

Q&A

SAINT ETIENNE • Cherished indie pop trio go out on a party high.

AtoZ • This month…

SHELLEY BURGON • The experimental harpist creating an immersive experience

JOHN FOGERTY • The veteran songwriter revisits and recreates 20 tunes from the CCR catalogue.

PATTY GRIFFIN • Sublime 11th from Grammy-winning adopted Texan

CASS McCOMBS • On paring it back and speaking from the soul

SANAM • Lebanese collective mix brutal rock and traditional Arabic influences on second studio LP. By Tom Pinnock

HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT • Biting dispatch from veteran outliers, still shaking the Wirral and beyond.

CORY HANSON • Perfectly subversive American songcraft from the cunning Wand mainman.

SUPERCHUNK • Mac McCaughan talks fear and hopefulness

BE-BOP DELUXE The Albums 1974-1976 ESOTERIC • The formative work of Bill Nelson’s eclectic warriors.

WHERE THERE’S A BILL… • A pick of Nelson’s post-Deluxe output

Q&A • Bill Nelson on genre-hopping, Peel and Betjeman

ALLEN TOUSSAINT • New Orleans studio master steps out on solo landmark.

RETURN OF THE’SAINT • Allen’s post-Toussaint career highlights

AtoZ • This month…

REDISCOVERED • Uncovering the underrated and overlooked

SUN CITY GIRLS • Vital esoteric psych-rock time capsules.

THE SPECIALIST • A 4CD survey of folk’s ’60s heyday, from the studious harmonisers to the subversive weirdos

Magic Waves • BRIAN WILSON shaped the ’60s pop-culture revolution, culminating in The Beach Boys’ masterpiece: Pet Sounds. But where did his incomparable songwriting gifts come from? Stephen Troussé investigates, while former bandmates and collaborators recall a genius at work. “He was a...