UNCUT PLAYLIST

On the stereo this month...

PJ HARVEY “A Child’s Question, August” PARTISAN RECORDS

“Rooks tell stories across the corn…” Peej goes birdwatching on quietly ravishing first single from I Inside The Old Year Dying.

ANOHNI My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross ROUGH TRADE

After the biting avant-pop of Hopelessness, a return to intimate, soulful textures in an “echo from the future” to Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On.

THE CIRCLING SUN Spirits SOUNDWAY

Kiwi out here: blissful new spiritual jazz from New Zealand, featuring languid Latin rhythms and a choir of Pacific Island and Maori singers.

JIM WALLIS In Huge Gesturing Loops TIP TOP RECORDINGS

Modern Nature/still Corners drummer embraces Ambient Americana, foregrounding the spectral pedal steel of Henry Senior.

ALOGTE OHO & HIS SOUNDS OF JOY O Yinne! PHILOPHON

From Bongo in northern Ghana, an exhilarating swirl of highlife guitar, gospel chants, slinky polyrhythms and synth-funk flair. Labelmate Jimi Tenor pitches in on sax and flute.

JULIE BYRNE The Greater Wings GHOSTLY INTERNATIONAL

Sublimating grief into a work of extended rapture, with Byrne’s celestial voice accompanied by a serene, drum-less vista of acoustic guitar, harp, piano, synth and strings.

CHOCOLATE HILLS Yarns From The Chocolate Triangle ORBSCURE

Toblerone up! It’s Metamono’s Paul Conboy and The Orb’s Alex Paterson at their most whimsical and bucolic.

NAOMI YANG Never Be A Punching Bag For Nobody OST BANDCAMP

Wistful electronic score for Yang’s own documentary about a Boston boxing gym holding out against gentrification – see our DVD review on page 107.

WOLFMANHATTAN PROJECT Summer Forever And Ever IN THE RED

Ten sulphurous blasts from the garage-punk supergroup comprising The Dirtbombs’ Mick Collins, Pussy Galore’s Bob Bert and The Gun Club’s Kid Congo Powers.

TONY ALLEN JID018 JAZZ IS DEAD

The Jazz Is Dead series can occasionally get a bit formulaic. But half an hour of unheard Allen sorcery, recorded shortly before his death in 2020? Count us in.