UNCUT PLAYLIST

On the stereo this month...

WILLIAM TYLER & THE IMPOSSIBLE TRUTH

Secret Stratosphere MERGE Barnstorming live album finds Tyler gleefully transmuting his own “Highway Anxiety” into a heavy extended jam on Kraftwerk’s “Radioactivity”. “That’s our favourite Blue Öyster Cult song,” he quips.

THIS IS THE KIT

Careful Of Your Keepers ROUGH TRADE Scabby legs, pigeons on a ledge and “emotional Buckaroo” – the offbeat urban folk songs on Kate Stables’ sixth album are unglamorous but enthralling.

DANNY PAUL GRODY

Arc Of Day THREE LOBED Mesmeric 12-string splendour from northern California, shaded with clarinet and pedal-steel guitar, inspired by the migratory patterns of birds.

CALIFONE

Villagers JEALOUS BUTCHER

“It’s only funny when you’re not afraid of everything…”

A reminder that Tim Rutili is up there with Kurt Wagner and Cass Mccombs when it comes to poignant, deconstructed Americana.

MAYA ONGAKU

Approach To Anima GURUGURU BRAIN When Kikagaku Moyo played their last ever show in Tokyo in December, they passed the baton to this lot: a little less flamboyant; just as wonderfully strange.

BRIGID MAE POWER

Dream From The Deep Well FIRE

A brighter, warmer sound elevates both Power’s own compositions and Irish traditional songs popularised by The Dubliners and The Clancy Brothers.

LES ABRANIS Amazigh Freedom Rock

1973-1983 BONGO JOE

Irresistible collision of funky psych-pop, disco and fuzzed-up Berber rock from a pair of Kabyle-algerians living it up in 1970s Paris.

BCUC Millions Of Us ON THE CORNER

Soweto party troupe spray positive vibes over the relentless thump of their dual bass drums. The side-long title track is their own “Bel Air”.

GREG FOAT & GIGI MASIN

Dolphin STRUT Following 2020’s luscious Symphonie Pacifique, jazz keyboard stylist Foat returns to Strut for an album of deep blue Mediterranean moods with Venetian ambient stalwart Masin.

GOAT “Soon You Die (Sonic Boom’s Party Mix)”

Swedish psych sect’s funkiest track becomes a swirling hedonistic mantra: “Soon you die/but don’t you cry/ ’Cos you still got time to go party…”