Tool

Martyn's 1973 opus remastered, plus an album of extras

Reflections on the 'metholated Hemingway' Charles Bukowski

Plenty of discussion on last week’s Neil Young blog, and also, more fractiously, over at Thrasher’s Wheat, about the value/usefulness/etc of “Archives”.

After a couple of weeks away, there was quite a selection of stuff waiting for me when I returned to Uncut on Tuesday, as this playlist hopefully shows. A situation compounded yesterday by the arrival of Neil Young’s fabled first volume of “Archives”.

Neil Gaiman fantasy from The Nightmare Before Christmas director

My favourite single track of 2009 thus far, as I mentioned in last week’s Boredoms “Super Roots 10” blog, is the Lindstrøm mix of that band’s “Ant 10”. Good news, then, that the Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas’ new album turned up a few days later.

Six from a thrillers master

Inspired covers. An all-star cast. Result? A career-best set

Kramer speaks to Uncut on the eve of the album's reissue

Apologies for yesterday’s grouchy digression. Back to business today, and one of a bunch of new records that have been exciting me over the past week or two.