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All copies of the August challenge of Uncut journal include a free, 15-track CD – Now Taking part in – that showcases the wealth of nice new music on supply this month. All of those artists seem within the pages of Uncut’s August 2023 challenge – both in options or our burgeoning opinions part. There’s loads right here for everybody, so dive in!

Right here, then, is your information to Now Taking part in…

1 Eiko Ishibashi
Drive My Automobile
Uncut heads to Bologna to satisfy Ishibashi and Jim O’Rourke in our new challenge, so we start this month’s CD with a bit from the previous’s very good Drive My Automobile soundtrack. Right here, lounge and bossa nova meet melancholic strings inside ethereal manufacturing.

2 Cory Hanson
Wings
Let’s gloss over the title of the Wand mainman’s newest album, Western Cum, and luxuriate in hard-rocking tracks similar to this. As along with his regular band, there’s a particular early Radiohead really feel and Hanson’s guitar work is as chic right here as that comparability suggests.

3 This Is The Equipment
Caught In A Room
Cautious Of Your Keepers is the brand new album from Kate Stables’ collective. Produced by Gruff Rhys, tracks like “Caught In A Room” showcase their polyrhythmic gallop and Stables’ ever-engrossing lyrics.

4 The Clientele
Dying In Could
As soon as a chamber-pop group, this London band have spent the final decade and alter branching out. This observe from new album I Am Not There Anymore continues to be a shock, although – a circling, string-drenched exercise with a dancehall beat. Reviewed at size within the kissue.

5 Anna St Louis
Into The Deep
A good friend and cohort of Kevin Morby, St Louis’ new album In The Air, her second, is her greatest but. Recorded with Woods’ Jarvis Taveniere within the producer’s seat, it pairs the songwriter’s honeyed hymns to crisp, timeless Americana.

6 Brown Spirits
Ode To Dorothy
This Melbourne crew have been round some time in varied bands, however it’s all come collectively on their newest LP Solitary Transmissions. Pushed by a cool krautrock groove, the instrumental “Ode To Dorothy” journeys into jazzier, spacier worlds.

7 Dexys
I’m Going To Get Free
The Female Divine is the primary album of recent materials from Kevin Rowland and co in over a decade, a celebration of every thing feminine. A horn-led northern soul stomp, it’s precisely what one may hope their return can be. Take a look at our unique interview with Rowland within the challenge.

8 Deer Tick
If She Might Solely See Me Now
John McCauley’s lot are on high kind with the brand new Emotional Contracts album, their debut for ATO, produced by Dave Fridmann. He provides McCauley’s boisterous blues-rock a heat grittiness, and the outcomes are simple.

9 Tony Allen & Adrian Younge
No Finish
A posthumous set on the Jazz Is Useless label, JID018 is a superlative showcase of the late drummer’s mastery and invention. Younge is a becoming foil for Allen, including soiled funk traces and grainy vibrant manufacturing to instrumentals similar to this reduce.

10 ANOHNI and the Johnsons
It Should Change
Anohni Hegarty leaves behind the electronics of 2016’s Hopelessness in favour of lush, tender soul on her new LP, My Again Was A Bridge For You To Cross. There are echoes of I Am A Hen Now, however a brand new gospel-infused confidence too.

11 Julie Byrne
Moonless
Byrne’s new album, the long-awaited The Better Wings, is reviewed at size on web page 35, and right here’s an instance of its damaged, craving charms. Coping with grief and reminiscence, Byrne explores strings, piano and synths to weave a strong spell.

12 Molly Tuttle & Golden Freeway
Subsequent Rodeo
As Tuttle sings right here, this isn’t her first rodeo, but new album Metropolis Of Gold is an efficient slice of her bluegrass-infused songwriting, bolstered by wonderful performances by her Golden Freeway group. It’s our Americana Album Of The Month on this month’s challenge.

13 Sam Burton
I Don’t Blame You
Take a look at our prolonged evaluation of Burton’s Pricey Departed LP on this challenge when you take a look at this future transmission from a parallel previous. Like, say, Weyes Blood, Burton harnesses musical historical past however speaks to right now.

14 Naomi Yang
Boxing And The Metropolis
Greatest identified for her work in Damon & Naomi and Galaxie 500, Yang has now directed a documentary about an East Boston boxing fitness center, By no means Be A Punching Bag For No one, and – naturally – supplied the soundtrack. Right here’s a tranquil digital spotlight, melodic and atmospheric in equal measure.

15 Jim O’Rourke
A Man’s Thoughts Will Play Methods On Him (Edit)
We end near the place we began this month, with a bit from the Japan-based musician’s new Arms That Bind soundtrack. Pushed by a jazzy pulse, it drifts off right into a dreamlike state – head to web page 74 within the new challenge to learn our six-page characteristic.

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