MOJO PLAYLIST
Get down! For the best lowlands rock, monorail twang and electro.
NEIL YOUNG AND PROMISE OF THE REAL FROM HANK TO HENDRIX
A wistful meditation on time, recorded live in 2019, after Young’s manager Elliot Roberts passed. From Noise & Flowers, out August. Find it: YouTube
BAND SPECTRA FEAT. THE ANCHORESS HUMAN RECIPROCATOR
A double-hit of caffeinated electro-pop: beneath the Moog groove, a reservoir of politically-fuelled disgust.
Find it: YouTube
NEU! HALLOGALLO (STEVEN MORRIS AND GABE GURNSEY REMIX)
From upcoming box set 50!, Rother guitars ride a new battle droid ‘Apache’ beat, thanks to heavy friends. Find it: streaming services
BRUTUS DUST
Young Belgian rock trio meld speed metal with grungey emotional heft. A bit like Mogwai at the wrong speed.
Find it: streaming services
BONNY LIGHT HORSEMAN CALIFORNIA
An exquisite country-rock balm encapsulating the ache of departure – like leaving a house for the final time and taking one last look.
Find it: YouTube
6 THE ROUTES TRANS EUROPE EXPRESS
Japanese surf rockers turn Kraftwerk into a Dick Dale/ Ventures stompalong with maximum whammy bar. From KW covers set The Twang Machine.
Find it: Topsy-Turvy Records LP
ACID KLAUS FEAT. LIESELOT ELZINGA NIGHTCLUB MARILYN (ROOM 1)
Be-hatted Moonlandingz zoomer and Dutch singer pal make frothing electro-disco pogo. Find it: YouTube
THE PROCLAIMERS THE WORLD THAT WAS
The Reid twins nail our current political condition in one amiably satirical locution: “Worship of a past that never was/Is totally demented.” Find it: streaming services
MAX TUNDRA LYSINE (JULIA HOLTER REMIX)
A song for cold sore cream becomes a piano immersed in blue shallows; Holter then turns on the sun before throwing moves in the debris. From Remixtape.
Find it: streaming services
DOWNLINERS SECT ALL NIGHT WORKER
From ’66, chugging Thames blues, with a deerstalker. And! There’s a charity tribute to the late Don Craine at The Half Moon, Putney, on August 21 – be there.
Find it: streaming services