Bill Callahan, The Delines, Iron & Wine, Buck Meek, Hen Ogledd and more feature on our latest free Uncut CD.
Bill Callahan, The Delines, Iron & Wine, Buck Meek, Hen Ogledd and more feature on our latest free Uncut CD.
The 15-track compilation, titled Run Run Run in tribute to Uncut coverstars The Velvet Underground, showcases some of the month’s best new music. It comes free with the March 2026 issue of Uncut.
See below for more on the full tracklisting…
1 The Studio 68! With Dani Turner
Funky People
This month we kick off with a raging rock’n’roll cut from the reformed Studio 68!, early ’90s mod revivalists, and Devon singer Dani Turner. There’s a definite air of Betty Davis to Turner’s raw vocals, and a marvellous Funkadelic-go-freakbeat vibe to the music from this revived group.
2 The Delines
The Meter Keeps Ticking
Willy Vlautin’s Portland band return with The Set Up, their most cinematic, loosest album yet. It could almost be a soundtrack to one of Vlautin’s novels, perhaps the new The Left And The Lucky, with a varied mix of spoken-word, delicate instrumentals and soulful songs such as this standout.
3 Altın Gün
Öldürme Beni
Garip is the first LP to be released by these Amsterdam-based Anatolian explorers after the departure of co-vocalist Merve Daşdemir. Here, pressing excitedly on, the remaining members have crafted a fantastic set of Turkish psych in tribute to “folk bard” Neşet Ertaş.
4 Bill Callahan
Stepping Out For Air
Callahan has been releasing music for almost 40 years now, and his new album My Days Of 58 suggests that, if anything, he’s going from strength to strength. This seven-and-a-half-minute masterpiece combines folk strumming with jazzy horns, and builds to an anthemic climax as Callahan calls for Gabriel to “come blow your horn”.
5 Marielle V Jakobsons
Everything Lost Remains
The Patterns Lost To Air is the first solo album in a decade from the Oakland-based composer. Stripping things down to violin, Moog and Fender Rhodes piano, Jakobsons explores the natural world and the passing of time in these celestial, beatific instrumentals.
6 Ulrika Spacek
Picto
There must still be something in the water in the Thames Valley, as Reading’s Ulrika Spacek continue their modern-day exploration of blown-out shoegaze and avant-rock. This is a highlight of their fourth album, Expo, and perfectly demonstrates the band’s smart mix of Radiohead, Slowdive and Swirlies.
7 Iron & Wine
In Your Ocean
Sam Beam returns with Hen’s Teeth, a follow-up to 2024’s Last Verse, written and recorded at the same time. Rather than an outtakes-esque companion piece, though, this might be the stronger effort, whether he’s channelling Tropicalia or, here, swinging, Big Thief-esque folk-rock.
8 Cardinals
I Like You
Cork five-piece Cardinals mix emotional, wracked rock with accordion and maudlin folk, bursts of distortion regularly bursting through the half-light. Their album Masquerade is a fine debut, with a little Bright Eyes, a bit of The Pogues and a touch of Fontaines DC.
9 Crooked Fingers
Haunted feat. Sharon Van Etten
Eric Bachmann is back with Swet Deth, his latest record as Crooked Fingers. A melting pot of new wave synths and electronics, “Haunted” is lifted by the ethereal voice of Sharon Van Etten. Elsewhere, the album features Matt Berninger and Mac McCaughan.
10 KMRU
With Trees Where We Can See
Nairobi-born, Berlin-based Joseph Kamaru was born into music: his grandfather, with whom he shares his name, was a seminal Kikuyu songwriter and performer. Kamaru Jr has taken a different route, though, and now Editions Mego release the engrossing Kin, a slow-moving mix of ambient drone and transfigured electronics.
11 Hen Ogledd
Clara
Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington’s new album Discombobulated is one of the most maximalist and gloriously strange records since, well, Hen Ogledd’s last album, 2020’s Free Humans. “Clara” evokes the Incredible String Band, while also taking in the Welsh language, free jazz and gloopy electronics.
12 The Wave Pictures
The House Painted Blue
Now on the Bella Union label, David Tattersall’s literate trio have added another fine album to their discography. As “The House Painted Blue” shows, Gained/Lost ranges from Dylan-esque wordplay and high-life canter to Americana gravitas and fiery garage-rock.
13 Buck Meek
Ring Of Fire
The Mirror, the latest solo album from Big Thief guitarist Meek, is a fitting companion to his other band’s Double Infinity LP. Recorded at his own log-cabin studio, the album includes a host of guests, and manages to combine studio experimentation with heartfelt, playful folk songs.
14 Clémentine March
Lucie
A singer-songwriter born in France and now living in London, via a long stay in Brazil, March is the latest in a long, and welcome, line of musicians channelling the exotica post-punk of Stereolab, the collaged genius of Broadcast and the off-kilter sway of Cate Le Bon. This compact gem features on her new album Powder Keg.
15 Isabel Pine
Fables
Anything signed to Kranky is worth a listen, and so it goes with British Columbia’s Isabel Pine. Recorded inside and outside a remote cabin in the Canadian wilds, her debut album Fables presents a new and very promising voice in modern classical atmospherics.
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