MOJO PLAYLIST

Tune in! For the best in folk-blues, chakra-jams and alco-punk.

2022-08-01 -

1 CASS McCOMBS UNPROUD WARRIOR

A pensive, poignant, rather unsteady jazz-folk shuffle about a military veteran heralds the Californian troubadour’s tenth album, due in August.

Find it: streaming services

2 KIWI JR. UNSPEAKABLE THINGS

Tough-pop Canadians blend Morrisseyish syntax (things “gather unsold at auction”) with bittersweet, Go-Betweens swoon and circling organ.

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3 RICH RUTH TAKEN BACK

Ambient jazz meets guitar freakout on this chakra-realigning jam out of Nashville. Where Jon Hassell, Alice Coltrane and John McLaughlin meet.

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4 GAZ COOMBES SONNY THE STRONG

Based on the sorry tale of Randolph Turpin, the British boxer who beat Sugar Ray Robinson, the ’Grass man brings a shivery transmission of rain-drenched ghost-rock. Find it: streaming services

5 THE DREAM MACHINE TOO STONED TO DIE

Merseydelic Coral-affiliated hairies bend sinister into a garbled rocker of daytime carousing, death and rebirth. Feel those trousers flapping in the storm!

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6 CAT POWER YOU GOT THE SILVER

Chan Marshall’s latest reading of the Jagger-Richards runes shares the original’s heartsore folk-blues but keeps it slow and sad. Find it: streaming services

7 THE CHATS I’VE BEEN DRUNK IN EVERY PUB IN BRISBANE

Get ’em in for 90 life-affirming seconds of yabbering antipodean alco-punk, plus guitar solo.

Find it: streaming services 8 JAMES RIGHTON LOVER BOY

The ex-Klaxon and producers Soulwax make like late-era Japan for a bittersweet, drunk-inthe-tropics reverie of longing to be elsewhere. Find it: streaming services

9 HEALING FORCE PROJECT DIORAMA OBSCURA

From Italy, art-loft discordant trumpet, mutating electronics and jackhammer drum and bass fight their way into metaphysical silence. Find it: streaming services