In the second half of the last decade I started to ignore Uncut, because its combination of "heritage" acts and Americana seemed too predictable. Recently, however, I've been noticing that some of the best writing about the likes of Trembling Bells has been on John Mulvey's Uncut blog and Rob Young's excellent review of the new Alasdair Roberts was also carried by them.
Something must have attracted me to buy this 2001 issue of the magazine, but it wasn't the covermount CD. More likely to have been a Neil Young cover feature, rehashing the past, and affording the perverse pedant's pleasure of spotting where they've got the release date of an old album out by a year or two.
From this CD, I learnt:-
- Tahiti 80 did a cover version of an A.R. Kane track: it may be uncommon, but it's not particularly inspired.
- Is this a "new" track (i.e. post 2000) from The Human League? It sounds like a clever attempt at straddling the trademark sound and more contemporary tropes.
- This Luke Haines fellow crops up from time to time; seems to have something about him.
I could have included "Gorky's Zygotic Mynci wrote some very beautiful tunes," but I already knew that.
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