MOJO PLAYLIST
Unharsh yr buzz with the month’s top beats, riffs and chills.
1 JANE WEAVER THE REVOLUTION OF SUPER VISIONS
The Lancs psychonaut’s new groove sounds like Bowie’s Fashion. The horror party video could be synced with The Winner Takes It All for a #metoo update.
Find it: YouTube
2 BILL CALLAHAN & BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY WISH YOU WERE GAY
Two songwriting masters tackle the Billie Eilish standard, stoically, while High Llama Sean O’Hagan puts the music on bossa-nova setting. Hot!
Find it: Bandcamp
3 SLEAFORD MODS MORK N MINDY (FT BILLY NOMATES)
Value English hip-hop with a
slow drip of horrible thoughts. Nomates adds an extra ghoulish dimension. Find it: streaming services.
4 KAREN O & WILLIE NELSON UNDER PRESSURE
Pleasingly unlikely couple reveal Bowie and Freddie’s 1981 duet as a true heartbreaker. Like two Bowies in a slow empathy exchange. Find it: streaming services
5 ANDREW CARROLL HERE/NOW
Space-age psych-pop from TV’s
Lodge 49 soundtracker: think Broadcast retro-futurism in LA. Find it: Bandcamp
6 BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD SCIENCE FAIR
From debut LP For The First Time: electric post-rock, high-peak jazz orchestrations and a verge-of-hysteria horror-romance story. Find it: streaming services
7 THE WEATHER STATION ROBBER
Canadian folk poet Tamara Lindeman’s supercharged return: double drummer propulsion; free jazz sax; the sweep and grandeur of Unfinished Sympathy.
Find it: YouTube
8 TUNE-YARDS NOWHERE, MAN
Merrill Garbus is mad as hell about marginalisation, adding extra verve to her loops ’n’ whoops avant-pop.
Find it: streaming services
9 BATTLES STIRLING BRIDGE (DJ DAIRY & DJ ORIENT (BLACK MIDI) REMIX)
NYC math-rockers meet London fellow travellers to make fungal-circuitry glitch, ripple and Euro-pop for a rave at Chernobyl.
Find it: streaming services
10 PELÉ FEATURING RODRIGO Y GABRIELA ACREDITA NO VÉIO (LISTEN TO THE OLD MAN)
Celebrating his 80th birthday, Brazil’s footballing legend and the Mexican nuevo flamenco duo make a hip-swinging tribute to an unidentified senior dude’s wisdom.