The new June 2026 issue of Uncut – in shops now or available to order online by clicking here– comes with a free CD: On Rotation, 15 tracks of the month’s best new music.
There are great new tracks from Ed O’Brien, The Lemon Twigs, Kevin Morby, Hiss Golden Messenger, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Aldous Harding, Marisa Anderson and more.
See below for more on the full tracklisting…
1 Marisa Anderson
Rop Koh
On her new album, The Anthology Of UnAmerican Folk Music, Vol. 1, guitarist Marisa Anderson presents her versions of traditional folk songs collected by Harry Smith from outside the US: crucially, she concentrates on places that America has been at war with. It’s a potent premise, and tracks like “Rop Koh” perfectly channel that power.
2 Ed O’Brien
Blue Morpho
Here’s the title track to Ed O’Brien’s second solo album, and the first to be released under his full name. Produced and co-written by Paul Epworth, it’s a beautiful, spectral piece, with O’Brien’s vocals and guitar fading into the background behind layers of synths and ambient swell.
3 The Sleeves
Empty Thoughts
Half of Modern Nature – Jack Cooper and Tara Cunningham – convene for this new project, with their two electric guitars and voices intertwining like overgrown vines. Their self-titled debut is a splendid, sparse example of improvisation and songcraft, perfectly poised and never overdone.
4 Tamikrest
Imanin
This key Saharan desert-blues collective return with their sixth album, Assikel, in the middle of May. Recorded straight to analogue tape in Haarlem, the Netherlands, it’s a vibrant, ebbing demonstration of their craft, as heard on this fine excerpt.
5 Thomas Dollbaum
Pulverize
Birds Of Paradise, the second album from this singer-songwriter and poet, now resident in New Orleans after growing up in Florida, is our Album Of The Month. With MJ Lenderman on drums, the record is the perfect display of Dollbaum’s evocative, melancholic stories of woe and wildlife in the American South.
6 Blood Sucking Maniacs
Family Tree/Heartbeat
Texan songwriter Terry Allen and his wife, writer and artist Jo Harvey Allen, have enlisted their whole extended family (even some yet to be born) for their self-titled album as Blood Sucking Maniacs.
7 Jeff Parker, ETA IVtet
Like Swimwear (Part Two)
Here’s an excerpt from Happy Today, the fine new album from guitarist Parker and his crew: Anna Butterss, Jay Bellerose and Joshua Johnson. This is jazz but also not-jazz, taking in laidback funk grooves, electronic manipulation and abstract washes of sound.
8 The Lemon Twigs
2 Or 3
The D’Addario brothers are back with Look For Your Mind, recorded in their New York studio and a further finetuning their ’60s harmony-pop perfection. You can hear more from them in our feature inside the issue, but before that check out this sublime piece of songcraft.
9 Kevin Morby
Badlands
Morby has consistently proved himself to be one of the best songwriters of our age, and his new album Little Wide Open – produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner – is a mighty addition to his discography.
10 Brown Spirits
Bakelite Dashboard
Melbourne’s Brown Spirits – Tim Wold, Agostino Soldati and Ash Buscombe – have built a strong reputation as psych-motorik-funk adventurers since they appeared on the scene in the middle of the last decade. “Bakelite Dashboard” pairs a relentless groove with phasing organ and wild synths, to transcendent effect.
11 Aldous Harding & H Hawkline
Venus In The Zinnia
Harding’s excellent new album is called Train On The Island, and here’s one of the record’s peaks: a duet with H Hawkline, who provides much of the instrumentation on the album, it captures that mysterious, wry melancholy that always makes Harding such an essential listen.
12 Angélique Kidjo
Big Heart
Kidjo’s new album, HOPE!!, finds the Paris-based artist teaming up with Nile Rodgers, Pharrell Williams and a host of pan-African talents for an album that pits optimism against the troubles of our world. As on “Big Heart”, though, Kidjo’s joy shines through.
13 Hiss Golden Messenger
I’m People
The latest from MC Taylor, I’m People, is another classic instalment in Hiss Golden Messenger’s lengthy canon. Co-produced with Josh Kaufman, it finds Taylor matching his time-worn wisdom with anthemic country-rock – a combination he’s long mastered.
14 SUSS
Sunset IV
Ambient Americana lynchpins SUSS – aka Pat Irwin, Jonathan Gregg and Bob Holmes – return with their latest LP, the sublime Counting Sunsets; time, then, to stick this track on your car stereo and head to the nearest piece of lonesome, sunbaked prairie.
15 Hurray For The Riff Raff
Pa’lante (Live)
Live Forever is a new live album from Alynda Segarra and her collaborators, documenting the songwriter and collaborators performing a varied set at Chicago’s Old Town School Of Folk Music. Here’s the climax of the concert, an impassioned take on The Navigator’s stellar epic.