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March 24, 2005

uncut magazine :: april 2005

The Band cover Uncut's April issue, with a main biographical feature in the run-up to this fall's big box set. The issue's CD is interesting - a collection of music by or inspired by The Band that ranges from Little Feat to Mercury Rev and Sufjan Stevens. I know about half of the songs on it, and it seems like a pretty nice compilation.

The story on the Band is thorough as well - it's a great synopsis of the gestation and glory years of the Band, and really illuminates how radical their sound came across even to their peers - apparently, Eric Clapton broke up Cream as a direct result of hearing The Basement Tapes and Music From Big Pink, and then actually showed up in Woodstock to try to join as a 2nd guitarist.

Coincidentally, there is a short story on the formation of Cream - a small education in the early English rock scene - in anticipation of their summer reunion tour.

There are also excellent features on two parts of British music about which I am woefully underinformed: Postcard Records and Scritti Politti. Postcard (key bands: Orange Juice, Aztec Camera) was the first label to push the kind of reactionary post-punk jangle-pop that has come to define an entire school of indie rock; it's tough to imagine The Smiths existing without the 12 discs that Postcard put out in its brief existence. I must admit to only glancing knowledge of this stuff, and it's a subject for serious research.

Simon Reynolds' article on Scritti Politti makes me want to pick up the new compilation of their first art-punk sides, Early, since I only remember them as a synth-pop band from my teenage years in England.

5-star reviews

Tom Russell :: Hotwalker
Annie :: Anniemal
The Bravery :: The Bravery
Judee Sill :: Heart Food (reissue)
Brian Eno :: Music For Films (reissue)
Basement Jaxx :: The Singles (compilation)
The Fall :: The Complete Peel Sessions (box set)

4-star reviews

Rufus Wainwright :: Want Two
Alasdair Roberts :: No Earthly Man
Queens of the Stone Age :: Lullabies to Paralyze
Marissa Nadler :: Ballads of Living and Dying
Daft Punk :: Human After All
Beck :: Guero
The Necks :: Mosquito/See Through
Asian Dub Foundation :: Tank
Black Mountain :: Black Mountain
Alex Smoke :: Incommunicado
Out Hud :: Let Us Never Speak of it Again
Antony and the Johnsons :: I Am a Bird Now
Kaiser Chiefs :: Employment
Iron & Wine :: Woman King
Seasick Steve & the Level Devils :: Cheap
Kathleen Edwards :: Back To Me
Brendan Benson :: The Alternative To Love
Lil' Jon & the East Side Boyz :: Crunk Juice
Vic Chesnutt :: Ghetto Bells
John Doe :: Forever Hasn't Happened Yet
Duran Duran Duran :: Very Pleasure
Mark Mulcahy :: In Pursuit Of Your Happiness

Tons of 4-star reissues. Highlights include the second round of Eno ambient remasters (Films, Apollo, Thursday Afternoon), Os Mutantes, John Renbourn, and more.

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