Fall

Intense and candid study of the fallen boxing champion

…or, if you will, a Chaucerian rock opera

'Kurt Cobain raised the bar for us'...

I was reading my blog on Super Furry Animals’ “Hey Venus” the other day, and noticed a comment that the band were working on two other albums for imminent release, albums that’d put the tidy poppiness of “Hey Venus” into quite a different context. Like so many talked-up projects in that vein, nothing seemed to come of them. But the new Super Furry Animals album, “Dark Days/Light Years” feels very much like the yang to the yin of “Hey Venus”.

The full transcript of the interview from Uncut's cover feature

The full transcript from the Uncut cover feature

The lavish double still stands proud

Nearly a year ago now, I posted a blog about Wooden Shjips live, when they played with Howlin Rain and The Meat Puppets in London. They were superb, and I’m pleased to say that their psychedelic dancehall schtick has been totally realised on “Dos”, their upcoming third album, which has burning itself onto my synapses these past ten days or so.

Online exclusive - the full cover feature transcript

Faithful take on Alan Moore's 'unfilmable' graphic novel