Uncut

It's teeming with complexity, feeding references to places, events and literary signposts into songs that wrestle with the violent contradictions of being human. [Jul 2026, p.38]

Young's digressive manoeuvres are given added flexibility by his latest, excellent backing band. [Jun 2026, p.35]

There’s nothing here to suggest they went unreleased for quality-control reasons. [Jul 2026, p.46]

While Hackney Diamonds was about return and resurgence, Foreign Tongues offers something more nuanced. Above all, the Stones' 25th studio album carries an unforced pleasure in playing together. [Aug 2026, p.98]

"Knock Em Out" is a feral prog-punk highlight; "Mr Lion" a shambolic 16-bar blues et in the jungle; "Hangover" a piece of slow-burning sludge metal that narrates a morning recovery; while "vermin Attack" is the heaviest song you'll ever hear about mouse infestation. [Jul 2026, p.38]

Though the turbulence threatens to shake some songs into their disparate doom-metal and shoegaze components, Wattie's alternately tremulous and ferocious vocals provide a centre that somehow holds. [Jul 2026, p.29]

If there's a math equation at the centre of it all, this one continually produces highly unpredictable and unusually captivating results. [Jul 2026, p.28]

What they have achieve here is a lovely, becalmed sprawl, where Jaime Fennelly's swimming, drifting electronics corral instrumentation from Nathan Bowles and Joe Westerlund, creating a curious kind of rural kosmische. [Jun 2026, p.34]

Dredging up the legends of the location [Rhode Island] and the memories of the musicians and setting them to Deer Tick's signature Americana, to gripping effects, [Jul 2026, p.29]

It's a bracing reminder of a back catalogue that stretches from Dada cut-ups to honorary status as house music influencers. [May 2026, p.29]