Phil manzanera to release amusical memoir box set

The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

The Fateful Symmetry MUTE 7/10

Tracks II: The Lost Albums SONY

Close harmonies, smooth grooves, infighting and ‘the bag’: making an album on stage

To celebrate the imminent arrival of Tracks II: The Lost Albums , Uncut takes a revelatory trip inside the archives of BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN . There, we piece together the stories behind an unexpected and expansive alternate discography not even the most devout Bruce fans could have imagined – from garage sessions and solo experiments to film soundtracks, pared-down dustbowl dramas, Vegas swing and more. “If you want to understand how Springsteen works creatively, he’s never shown you more of his cards than he does here,” one collaborator confides to Peter Watts

Before The Future LOST SOUND TAPES/SELF-RELEASED 8/10