Mogwai, Eddie Chacon, The Innocence Mission, Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions and Songhoy Blues all seem on the most recent free Uncut CD.
The compilation, entitled Nocturnes, comes with the January 2024 difficulty of Uncut, and showcases the month’s greatest new music.
See under for extra on the complete tracklisting…
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1 Brown Spirits
Thoughts Rocker (Half 1)
We kick off our exploration of this month’s greatest new music with a slice of grooving motorik storage from Melbourne’s Brown Spirits. The duo’s newest providing, Cosmic Seeds, continues their journey into kraut-centred deep area, however with an additional serving to of analogue funk.
2 Rose Metropolis Band
Radio Track
Ripley Johnson doesn’t change the method on Rose Metropolis Band’s new album, Sol Y Sombra, however there’s no want when he’s creating choogling, rolling delights like this, with lilting pedal metal and a psychedelic propulsion.
3 Bridget Hayden & The Apparitions
She Moved By The Fayre
Todmorden-based Hayden is greatest recognized for her work with experimental and noise music, but her spectacular new LP, Chilly Blows The Rain, is a set of spectral, dour conventional folks, with the singer and multi-instrumentalist taking part in Lankum at their very own doomy, magisterial sport.
4 Straw Man Military
Earthworks
Straight out of Brooklyn, this DIY two-piece twist the thorny post-punk of Wire and Mission Of Burma into beautiful new shapes. Right here’s the title monitor of their third album, a rallying cry towards the trendy American nightmare.
5 Euros Childs
Ursula’s Crow
On his twentieth album, Beehive Seashore, the previous Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci frontman has swerved his experimental tendencies and written 12 sublimely melodic and melancholic songs. The piano-based preparations solely burnish these tales of childhood and the countryside.
6 The Innocence Mission
Your Saturday Image
Midwinter Swimmers is the most recent album by the Pennsylvanian veterans, led by songwriter and vocalist Karen Peris, and right here’s one of many report’s many highlights; gauzy and introverted, it suggests each Yo La Tengo’s bossa nova excursions and Arthur Lee’s most pained transmissions. “Love is the sound,” Peris sings.
7 Eddie Chacon
Finish Of The World
After 20 years of silence following his time as half of Charles & Eddie within the ’90s, Chacon has carved out a slyly beautiful solo profession this decade. Working with collaborator Nick Hakim on new LP Lay Low, his songs nod to each basic R&B and extra fashionable psychedelic soul.
8 Mogwai
Lion Rumpus
Producer John Congleton has been enlisted for The Dangerous Fireplace, the Glaswegians’ eleventh album and the follow-up to their UK No 1 As The Love Continues. Right here’s the primary monitor to be taken from it, a basic, gnarly Mogwai mixture of glistening synths and jet-engine guitars.
9 Songhoy Blues
Gara
Bamako-based Songhoy have usually turbo-charged their desert blues with distorted guitars and rock rhythms, however on their fourth album, Héritage, they show that they will do exactly as effectively embracing their roots with acoustic guitars and percussion.
10 AJ Woods
Hawk Is Listenin’
From deep in New Mexico comes a supergroup of types: on this psychedelic Americana report Woods is joined by members of A Hawk And A Hacksaw, Impartial Milk Lodge and extra. The result’s suitably sun-baked, like Neil Younger stumbling and misplaced within the Albuquerque warmth.
11 Joshua Burnside
Up And Down
Belfast musician Burnside matches his acoustic singer-songwriter influences with a extra experimental bent, taking in electronica and area recordings: the outcomes, as on his new album Tooth Of Time, present the right discussion board for ruminations on fatherhood and the passing of time.
12 Anna B Savage
Lighthouse
A latest transfer from the UK to Eire has impressed You & I Are Earth, the third album by this London-born artist. She’s additionally teamed up with Lankum producer John “Spud” Murphy, which supplies the ten tracks on the report with a sure overcast richness to match Savage’s eerie voice and the songs’ coastal themes.