What I’ve been playing most recently has been Neon Bible, the second album from The Arcade Fire, the follow-up to Funeral and possibly one of the most keenly-anticipated albums of the year, for which great things are predicted and will probably happen.

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I worry, occasionally, that this blog has started to give the impression we spend our days at Uncut listening to nothing but serious, respectable artists with a good decade or two of critical acclaim under their belts. Of course, we do listen to Cave, and Bowie, and Neil Young, and Cat Power, and a hell of a lot of Grateful Dead at the moment. You might not believe this, but Allan even digs out a dusty Dylan CD from time to time.

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This week's musical musings include the 'Dead, Babyshambles and Cat Power

Previously unavailable recordings from 1989-1992 are out in May

Slint and House Of Love also to perform classic albums

They appear The Venue's Le Beat Bespoke event in April

The Mali collective bring their hypnotic sound to a venue near you

Bold second album. We predict a riot, obviously