SUB POP Uncut. … DEUTSCHE GRAMMOFON We Are Sent Here By History Still dealing in brisk, melodic indie rock, instead the band deepened their impact: the lyrical touches in their suburban dramas more telling; the piling of melodies still more effective. Share Facebook Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp. HEAVENLY THE LEAF LABEL 14 COURTNEY MARIE ANDREWS Shore Sundowner benefits from a DIY ethic that sees its maker playing virtually all instruments. Check out Uncut's Year End List. May 11, 2020 5. 24th December 2020 . Hard to imagine a more likeable singer-songwriter mode than that presented by Kevin Morby. Tamikrest - Tamotaït. For this entertaining and accessible album, the Australian acoustic improvising trio (“jazz” doesn’t get it somehow) split their work into three 20-minute compositions. TV Shows. 22 FIONA APPLE © 2020 UNCUT is a member of the media division of BandLab Technologies. Uncut’s Best New Albums Of 2020. Advertisement. Although this album came freighted with Ford’s personal emotions – the death of her brother, her fractious relationship with her parents, break-ups – her positivity endured. Song For Our Daughter Letter To You Uncut's year end lists & more. “Our social security is music,” the singer-songwriter told Uncut earlier this year. 50 MARGO PRICE The Chicago-based English guitarist has, like his friend Joan Shelley, found new areas to explore in that most over-mined tradition, acoustic singer-songwriting. With producer Matt Sweeney encouraging the band to up the tempos and power, Bamako’s greatest rock group hit hard on their stripped-down third album. 15 FONTAINES DC 5 THUNDERCAT 25 NUBYA GARCIA Recording in Hollywood with Sturgill … Steve Earle & The Dukes - Ghosts of West Virginia, Six Organs of Admittance - Companion Rises, Aoife Nessa Frances - Land of No Junction, The Lemon Twigs - Songs for the General Public, Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, Margo Price - That's How Rumors Get Started, Gwenifer Raymond - Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain, Bright Eyes - Down in the Weeds Where the World Once Was, Eddie Chacon - Pleasure, Joy and Happiness, Brigid Dawson and The Mothers Network - Ballet of Apes, Bonny Light Horseman - Bonny Light Horseman, Shabaka and the Ancestors - We Are Sent Here By History, Lucinda Williams - Good Souls Better Angels, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever - Sideways To New Italy, https://www.uncut.co.uk/publications/magazines/uncut-january-2021-128500/. 34 ROSE CITY BAND The trio’s spacious arrangements, harmony choruses and subtle embellishments amplified the songs’ emotional punch. 14 November 2019 Uncut Magazine: 75 Best Albums of 2019 [see also 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012] ... Quietus: Albums of the Year 2020; Paste: The 50 Best Albums of 2020; Guardian: Best Poetry Books of 2020; Guardian: Best Fiction of 2020; Counting down our 50 favourite LPs of the year. LATE MUSIC Uncut is the debut studio album released by Canada's the Powder Blues.It was originally released in December 1979 on the Blue Wave label. MERGE After the bright promise of their debut, the Dublin band’s second album showed a darker flowering of their talents into a rowdy and percussive post-punk. 12-string guitars, flute and nods to Eastern modes gave the whole a slightly dank Led Zeppelin III vibe that was customarily deadpan and irresistible. The singing was a new development, which hinted at new avenues to be explored – some of them Lynchian. lifting spirits involved a singular combination of flute funk, Punjabi folk and Bolan boogie, topped off with a jaunty ska singalong about racial profiling. Almost three decades after Charles & Eddie’s “Would I Lie To You?”, the duo’s surviving half returned with this masterful record of adventurous electronic R&B. Her voice, centre stage in this startling collection of songs, will be less familiar. CHRYSALIS/PARTISAN Staunch. Sideways To New Italy “That’s all we’ve got left.” On perhaps his finest album, and something of a spiritual follow-up to his 1999 debut Alkibar, Bocoum summoned up Mali’s traditional music to call for unity in his troubled country. 41 KEELEY FORSYTH Grown in ambition, if not noticeably in length from her 2018 debut, Garth Mountain drew both on the rabbit skulls and damp moss of British folk horror, and also a compositional wisdom that broadened the horizon of her American Primitive twang. ISLAND As a … 42 RÓISÍN MURPHY Untitled (Black Is) On this debut LP, he and his group – including Serafina Steer and Jason Buckle – presented seven epic songs that touched on krautrock, house and dub, and were developed and recorded at live gigs over the past couple of years. Have We Met 39 THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS Heralded by “Murder Most Foul” in March – an elegiac, 17-minute song ostensibly about the assassination of John F Kennedy – Rough And Rowdy Ways was a ferocious, urgent, marauding album that felt almost supernaturally relevant to the present. Ever-Roving Eye Subscribe to Uncut today and never miss an issue. SKINT/BMG Features Uncut – 11th December 20200 … PARTISAN They're well worth the wait ... with leader Sydney Minsky-Sargeant’s stalking through this potent set of bruising electro songs like a cool composite of Stephen Mallinder and Mark E Smith. The top 70 albums of 2000 as voted for by the writers of Uncut magazine They strut, commiserate, titillate and disarm. Normally, The Necks appear to simply roll up to the studio, record an hour’s music, and roll out. LOMA VISTA Comprised of … “The last of the best/ You can bury the rest”, he sang on “False Prophet”. 13 TAME IMPALA Reunions Eight years after The Idler Wheel…, Apple returned with this loose and magnificent fifth album. New York siblings get sleazy on third LP. View reviews, ratings, news & more regarding your favorite band. Optimisme 8 JARV IS… David Bowie - The Next Day 3. If the Weller of 2018 continued to draw strength, in his own way, from English folk traditions, string arrangements and what we might call “the Nick Drake vibe”, this year’s model cast the net far wider. The third full-length release for the Australian electronic duo features guest appearances from such artist as Blood Orange, Leon Bridges, Vashti Bunyan, Neneh Cherry, Rivers Cuomo, Perry Farrell, Karen O, Jamie xx, Mick Jones, Sananda Maitreya (formerly known as Terence Trent D'Arby), Johnny Marr, MGMT, Oroño, Sampa the Great, Pink Siifu, Tricky, and Kurt Vile. End-of-the-year list season is in full swing. 2019. Notable, browsable lists. 50 MARGO PRICE. Its more minimalist style is a welcome return to the sound of some of the finest moments from Life Is People. The ghosts of the 20th century – Buster Keaton, Walt Whitman and General Patton among them – coexisted with spirits from earlier civilisations, all of whom had something to say, in their own oblique ways, about today. According to metacritic, it was the 9th best reviewed album of 2020. They were signed as a guitar band, but swiftly reconfigured for this, their debut, with some of its best tracks growing from frontman Sydney Minsky-Sargeant’s electronic demos. FIRE ... Movies. Dark Matter “So much is depressing…” The brothers, unsurprisingly, took it upon themselves to set the world to rights on these 14 songs: their tongue-in-cheek targets included modern technology (“iPhone”), suburban obsessions (“Lawnmower”) and even poor Igor Fyodorovich (“Stravinsky’s Only Hit”). Eventually, on “Witches”, a lilting, harmony-laden highlight of this subtly phenomenal record, Crutchfield discovered that the struggle is the point of it all. 30 CORNERSHOP Beneath the smoky fug of a curiously bass-heavy, sometimes semi-psychedelic production, we find all sorts of intriguing experiments. Books. The former Moloko singer emerged as one of the heroes of lockdown, her exuberant living-room livestream – complete with impressively styled-out pratfall – putting other artists’ acoustic performances to shame. https://www.albumoftheyear.org/list/1509-uncuts-75-best-albums-of-2020 24 MOSES SUMNEY For her third album, the addition of a modest-sized band brought warmth and extra texture to her songs, blending elements of jazz, country and even psychedelia with her voice – otherworldly, hypnotic and as powerfully transcendent as ever. Recording in Hollywood with Sturgill Simpson in the producer’s chair, the Midwest farmer’s daughter tried her hand at a West Coast pop album for her third LP. In this context, this year’s Summerlong felt like an agreeable rest stop, with lazy slide guitars and a nod to funk offsetting the moments – like the dust-kicking “Real Long Gone” –in which Johnson showed off some tidy Bakersfield chops. 11 JASON ISBELL Uncut. ARTS AND CRAFTS The warmth and humanity at the heart of the Maels’ work, not to mention their operatic, day-glo tunes, ensured that Drip stands as one of the duo’s recent high-water marks. 40 BRIGID DAWSON & THE MOTHERS NETWORK 45 BRIGHT EYES A companion mini-album, Luminous, was also quietly radiant. “Bloom”, a rattling yet spacious noise, threw back to the mesmeric charms of their classic Drive By. 75. With their fifth album they're taking strength from sadness, hope from despair, and wisdom from experience. score: 6 of 75 (8%) required scores: 1, 11, 22, 34, 45 list stats leaders vote Vote print comments. I wanted it out in time for New Years because it feels like a good song to end a tough year on. Events in 2020 moved so fast that the year needed two Drive-By Truckers albums to tackle them all: The Unraveling in late January and The New OK in December. Cantus, Descant 10 LAURA MARLING Both albums were full of fury about the state of America, addressing school shootings, the demonisation of immigrants, the opioid addiction and sundry madness from the American Scream. Although Williams returned to live in Nashville this year, her 14th studio album was anything but comfortable: here, recording live in the studio with her road band, the singer and songwriter was snarling and passionate, whether dressing down Trump on “Man Without A Soul” or searching for strength on the closing, seven-and-a-half-minute “Good Souls”, her voice earthier and more emotive than ever. 19 BRIGID MAE POWER On this sometimes obstinate, sometimes sublime record, Stevens shows he contains multitudes. June 26, 2020. Big comebacks dominate, but not to see Kurt Vile, Parquet Courts (although wasn't that technically last year?) Kevin Parker’s journey from slacker guitar burnout to laptop Brian Wilson has been one of the stranger and more enthralling stories of the last decade or so. HIGHWAY 20/THIRTY TIGERS 38 BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN A wonderful surprise, not just because of its sudden appearance on the autumn equinox, but because Robin Pecknold sounded like a man reborn, matching the wide-eyed folksy innocence of the Fleet Foxes’ classic debut to gleaming pop production. Uncut's Top 75 Albums of 2020 brooklynvegan.com - Andrew Sacher. TV Shows. Mixing Colours Many of Callahan’s albums seem to come with difficult labours, but Gold Record, his second album in two years, almost waltzed in, feeling fresh and natural. Heart’s Ease Dan Bejar’s 13th album as Destroyer was his most accessible to date, polishing the plush synthpop of 2011’s Kaputt to a glimmering sheen. Soft to the touch sonically, the sweetness of the tunes helped the Frank Ocean-style confessionals at Parker’s sad disco slip down even easier. 24th December 2020 . PARADISE OF BACHELORS Underlining his status – that of a cult legend finally coming in from the cold – production came from John Carroll Kirby, collaborator with Frank Ocean and Solange. A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip Not to say Lianna La Havas is a sonic shock: it's evolution not revolution, putting its author's sound deeper into her own context. WARP In troubled times, The Universal Want is exactly what we need. Presenting the 148-page, Deluxe Ultimate Music Guide to Joni Mitchell. Amen. Among these 14 tracks, there were electronic oddities (“Pan And Broom”), synthy new wave pop songs (“Mariana Trench”) and atmospheric piano ballads, the whole thing tied together by Conor Oberst’s playful, melancholic words. Like LCD Soundsystem or Fat White Family before them, this Todmorden collective combine dance rhythms and post-punk awkwardness to fine effect. Their debut showed that they share a manic energy and restless creativity with their compatriots in King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, yet their influences also stretched to The Incredible String Band, Fela Kuti and Dorothy Ashby on the turbo-charged “People Talk Too Much” and acid-funk groover “Freak Machine”. COOKING VINYL Uncut published their Top Albums of 2020 earlier in the week and now here's MOJO with their Top 75. CONCORD JAZZ EXODUS Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2019. After a decade of experimentation, the Lips returned to more graceful, accessible songwriting on their 16th LP. Features Uncut – 24th December 20200 Uncut’s Best Reissues & Compilations Of 2020Our Top 30 new old releases of the yearRead more. Kudos then to hyperactive FDC singer Grian Chatten – the romantic hero of this particular drama – in particular for locating the melodies that would turn this reverberating guitar abstraction into something epic and memorable. Song for Our Daughter was met with widespread critical acclaim. The achievement of Sideways To New Italy ... is to maintain their customary tempo while deepening the experience, giving their melodic indie rock a subtle sophistication and confidence. But with this, his 39th studio album, he seemed to have found new, invigorating ways of illuminating American history and reflecting it against the present day. Ostensibly a break-up record – “you can’t water old flowers” – Andrews delivered her ruminations on lost love against a backdrop of gospel-inflected country-soul. These are big themes for tough times, yet Price confronts the bleakness in a way that is generous; resilient, funereal and warm. Uncut’s Best New Albums Of 2020. The best songs of 2020 were created in studios from Seoul to Johannesburg, Puerto Rico to Nashville. As an actor, Keeley Forsyth may be known to you from her appearances in popular dramas like TV’s Happy Valley. Tjinder Singh and Ben Ayers’ winning recipe for Once in a lifetime… Presenting the Ultimate Music Guide to the arty, unparalleled Talking Heads. FULL TIME HOBBY Old Flowers Fetch The Bolt Cutters Arranged for string section or discreet laptronics, Forsyth’s songs sit like statuary: starkly and impressively against Like, say, Bill Callahan or frequent collaborator Conor Oberst, her musings on sex and death flow organically but with a rare power and playfulness. It’s no grandstanding reappearance; rather, the mood is beautifully low-key, with keyboards warm and woozy, percussion subtle and mostly electronic, and Chacon’s voice tender and emotive. Good Souls Better Angels Uncut’s Best New Albums Of 2020 Features Uncut - 24th December 2020 0 When Stevie Wonder toured with The Rolling Stones: “The building was actually vibrating” 29 SONGHOY BLUES 9 SHIRLEY COLLINS Cementing his status as a modern-day jazz kingpin, this is Shabaka Hutchings’ third consecutive entry in Uncut’s annual Top 50, each with a different band. ... Uncut’s Review Of 2020, Neil … 6 WAXAHATCHEE RCA re-issued the album in February 1980, with the song "Gimme Some Lovin'" removed from the album.Uncut was produced by Jack Lavin.. Lindé At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 from reviews from professional critics, the album received a score of 88, based on 20 reviews. But whereas Sons Of Kemet and The Comet Is Coming pinned you to the wall with their kinetic intensity, this second team-up with South African ensemble The Ancestors was an earthy and solemn affair, Hutchings’ snaking sax providing an insistent counterpoint to Siyabonga Mthembu’s revolutionary poetry. Strange Lights Over Garth Mountain BELLA UNION Arguably, of course, Dylan’s most prized albums have always arrived at fraught moments. Author: ijkidd. The Slow Rush The True Story Of Bananagun November 20, 2020 2. Jeff Parker - Suite for Max Brown. Sobriety brought Katie Crutchfield back to her Americana roots on this, her fifth album. Features Uncut – 11th December 20200 … Uncut: 75 Best Albums of 2020. Beyond The Pale 1 BOB DYLAN MARE/WOODSIST LOOSE/FAT POSSUM Since her 2016 debut, I Told You The Truth, Power has been combining folk music with defiant, confessional songwriting and haunting, musical drones. Despite the vicissitudes of the pandemic, hearteningly, good music has found a way to endure – on record at least. History is cyclical; societies emerge, flourish, decline. Their finest since Yoshimi…. My Bloody Valentine - m b v 2. Counting down our 50 favourite LPs of the year. If nothing else, 2020 has proven how resilient music can be. Above it all, Cocker examined our cave-dwelling past, the curse of nostalgia and the detritus of broken lives on some of his deepest lyrics. Pleasure, Joy And Happiness Marc Jones FOREVER LIVING ORIGINALS Græ Paul McCartney and The Review Of 2020 in the new Uncut uncut.co.uk - Michael Bonner. Elsewhere, though, it curated a virtual festival in British folk-rock circa 1969/70. 43 SARAH DAVACHI Flitting from the sublime to the ridiculous, from the personal to the universal, and from a time before people to a time long after them, it's a mess, but a glorious one all the same. Joining him on the mind-expanding mission were guest stars Steve Arrington and the idiosyncratic rapper Lil B. DEAD OCEANS On Sunset Features Uncut – 24th December 20200 Uncut’s Best Reissues & Compilations Of 2020Our Top 30 new old releases of the yearRead more. Spanning 20 songs, and featuring contributions from Daniel Lopatin, James Blake and Jill Scott, Græ found Sumney impressively combining his stellar vocals with explosive electronics, avant-garde textures, orchestral and jazz arrangements and moody funk. Punisher In 2020, Davachi offered strong private work from lockdown – her lo-fi “Gathers” cassette a set of site-specific works in progress – and two further EPs, but this album felt like it was the most substantial statement of her year. American Head Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. Year-end lists are fingerprints; aggregate statistics are smudges. The addition of three previously unrecorded early-’70s songs neatly emphasised the ongoing nature of Springsteen’s musical mission. 7 BILL CALLAHAN Features Uncut – 24th December 20200 Uncut’s Best New Albums Of 2020Counting down our 50 favourite LPs of the yearRead more. Oh yes, there was still “Ploughman”, an oo-arrr Ronnie Lane romp, but elsewhere Wellers past and future collided as he investigated funk and soul, even (on tunes like the great “More”) German motorik. Kacey Musgraves was along for the ride as the group examined what it means to be an ‘American band’; but the album truly succeeded because Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd were looking back wistfully and openly on their teenage years and the troubles experienced by them and their wayward relatives. Podcasts. 49 GWENIFER RAYMOND Now seven albums into his solo career, Isbell continued the purple patch that began on 2013’s Southeastern with what might be his richest, subtlest album to date. 41 years on from her debut, Williams remains utterly compelling. Uncut’s Best New Albums Of 2020. Her generous, soulful tone already well-established, she set about exploring her Caribbean heritage, deftly folding in elements of dub, soca and cumbia. Summerlong 17 SAULT A sometime member of John Dwyer’s Oh Sees, Brigid Dawson delivered in July a solo debut that displayed some of that band’s enjoyment of antique sounds (deep reverbs, sedate organ) but pursued them into far quieter realms. After her exploratory Lump project with Tunng’s Mike Lindsay, Marling tiptoed back to a sort of classicism for her seventh record: while influences include Leonard Cohen on “Alexandra” and Paul McCartney on “Blow By Blow”, the stately sophistication of these 10 songs was testament to Marling’s talents alone. 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