Bonnie “Prince” Billy, The Black Crowes, Tinariwen, Courtney Barnett and more feature on our latest free Uncut CD.
Bonnie “Prince” Billy, The Black Crowes, Tinariwen, Courtney Barnett and more feature on our latest free Uncut CD.
The 15-track compilation, titled Play The Document in tribute to Uncut coverstar Bob Dylan, showcases some of the month’s best new music. It comes free with the April 2026 issue of Uncut.
See below for more on the full tracklisting…
1 The Black Crowes
Cruel Streak
The Crowes take us through their recorded catalogue to date in the new Uncut, including new album A Pound Of Feathers. Here’s a track from it, produced by Jay Joyce at his Nashville church-turned-studio in freewheeling, intensely creative sessions with the Robinson brothers and drummer Cully Symington.
2 Snail Mail
My Maker
Leving New York behind and now newly settled in sunny North Carolina, Lindsey Jordan meets Uncut in our features section. The occasion is the release of her new, third album as Snail Mail, Ricochet – “My Maker” is a standout track.
3 Andrew Wasylyk
Private Symphony #2 feat. Stuart Murdoch
Here’s the opener to the Scottish composer and producer’s new album, Irreparable Parables; a stately, orchestral gem, it features Belle & Sebastian’s lead singer, just one of a flock of collaborators on the record, from Gruff Rhys to Kathryn Joseph and Field Music.
4 Courtney Barnett
Mantis
It doesn’t seem easy for Courtney Barnett to make records, but out of that doubt and frustration comes great music, as on her new album Creature Of Habit. Written with co-producer Stella Mozgawa, “Mantis” is quintessential Barnett: catchy, fleet, witty and thoughtful. Check out our lead review in this issue.
5 Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection
Rowan Tree
The third volume of Cullum’s Coin Collection project is apparently the last, which means there’s even more reason to savour songs like this. Folky and jazzy like a lost curio from the early ’70s, it’s a folk horror tale deeply rooted in Cullum’s English homeland rather than his adopted Nashville landscapes.
6 Flea
Traffic Lights feat. Thom Yorke
After decades as a Chili Pepper and serial collaborator, Flea is releasing his debut solo album, Honora. There are a tonne of guests on it, including Jeff Parker on guitar and Nick Cave doing “Wichita Lineman”, but this sinuous piece of ominous jazz-funk features none other than Thom Yorke. Flea chats about the album inside the new issue.
7 Bruce Hornsby
Indigo Park
While Hornsby selects some seminal music for us in the new Uncut, he’s also back with a new album, Indigo Park, featuring some of his Grateful Dead collaborators Bob Weir and Robert Hunter, along with Ezra Koenig, Bonnie Raitt and more. Here’s the low-slung title track.
8 Tinariwen
Imidiwan Takyadam feat. José Gonzalez
The Toureg veterans’ new album Hoggar is reviewed in our current issue, and here’s a fine cut taken from it. Recorded at Imarhan’s studio in Tamanrasset, southern Algeria, it finds Tinariwen returning to their largely acoustic roots; lyrically, though, they’re darker than ever, reflecting the continuing turmoil in the region.
9 Ellie O’Neill
Anna With The Silver Arrow
Time Of Fallow is the excellent debut album from Ireland’s Ellie O’Neill – we hear from Ellie in our I’m New Here piece. “Anna…”, meanwhile, shows off her unshowy brand of quietly experimental singer-songwriter folk a la Adrianne Lenker or Elliott Smith.
10 The Long Ryders
Stand A Little Further In The Fire
The core Ryders trio return with High Noon Hymns, the latest album in their continuing journey from the roots of Americana outwards to garage and psychedelia. With its T.Rex-aping intro, “Stand A Little Further In The Fire” is a customary burst of good times from the group.
11 Bonnie “Prince” Billy
Hey Little
This gorgeous track is taken from We Are Together Again, our Album Of The Month in the new issue. It sees Will Oldham continue the classic streak that’s taken him from 2019’s I Made A Place through last year’s The Purple Bird and on to this hushed, emotional gem.
12 Memorials
Dropped Down The Well
Verity Susman and Matthew Simms do a fine job of merging their histories (Electrelane and Wire, notably) into something new on their second album, All Clouds Bring Not Rain. From the angular rush of this track alone, it’s little surprise that they’ve toured extensively with none other than Stereolab in recent years.
13 Charlotte Cornfield
Lost Leader
Canadian singer-songwriter Cornfield has been releasing her own music for almost 20 years now, but new album Hurts Like Hell is her strongest work to date. Even the guest voices of Feist, Buck Meek and Christian Lee Hutson don’t overshadow nimble songs like this one.
14 Billy Fuller
Rummer
This piece of dystopian electro post-punk is the opener to Fuller’s debut solo album, Fragments. Pieced together over the last few years, the record finds the Beak> member exploring cinematic cold wave and synth noir, his bass guitar always to the fore.
15 The New Pornographers
Ballad Of The Last Payphone
Bouncing back from adversity, AC Newman and his collaborators are back with new LP The Former Site Of. Concerning the onward march of progress and what we may lose on the way, “Ballad Of The Last Payphone” is a fitting intro to the record and a nod to the group’s continuing journey.
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