1 PORTISHEAD
Get up, get down and dust yourself off with the month’s finest Afro-dub, booze-blues and soccer joints.
SOS
A cover of Abba’s mighty lost-love pop hit of 1975 recorded for the soundtrack of the recent movie of J.G. Ballard’s novel High-Rise, this was released in June as a tribute to murdered MP Jo Cox. A stark, cold, waking nightmare of loss and hopelessness, with Beth Gibbons singing like someone in solitary confinement, it has gained extra resonance in the wake of the vote for Brexit, as a lament for the schism created by the Leavers, the challenge to European identity and fear for the inevitable fallout. Find it: YouTube
2 PIXIES UM CHAGGA LAGGA
From Charles and the crew's new album Head Carrier, a cement mixer's-worth of molten hillbilly punk metal with typically crazy Cousin-It-in-the-basement verbiage Ð ie, "They're coming to get me!" Find it: SoundCloud
3 BLOOD ORANGE AUGUSTINE
Where Dev Hynes embarks on a flight into new-old soul-meets-hip hop-meets-rock, reflecting on familial and personal connections, yearning, and the mystic beyond. Find it: YouTube
4 JOSIENNE CLARKE & BEN WALKER SILVERLINE
London-based guitar and voice folk duo turn on the beauteous, bittersweet reflection, not unlike Bagpuss's Madeleine and Gabriel suddenly acquaint Where ed with deep melancholy. Lovely, though. Find it: YouTube
5 ELIZABETH FRASER SHE MOVED THROUGH THE FAIR
Liz sings the olde Irish ghost visitation song as if hovering wraith-like in an 18th century country graveyard. Af olk skeleton buffeted by elemental electronic throbbing, it's from the BBC show The Living And The Dead. Find it: YouTube
6 TENOR FLY THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE
Where late Brixton MC Tenor Fly Ð who died suddenly in June Ð gives the Monty Python fave a boogie'ing ska shake-up. And don't forget to listen to his mighty dancehall tunes like Sight Mi Nozzle while you're at it. Find it: YouTube
7 JOHN HAWKSWORTH EUSEBIO BLUE
From the Goal! documentary, charting England's 1966 World Cup victory, an hypnotic audio-montage of Brian Glanville's commentary, crowds, Swingle Singer "ooh"s and Hawksworth's talking bass. Find it: tinyurl.com/hues4uo
8 ALEXANDER ‘SKIP’ SPENCE GREY/AFRO
Hoping to raise the collective consciousness, MOJO have been participating in Julian Cope's mind-based SydArthur Festival. On July 28 we'll be listening to this eerie chant of fractured-mind blues, and praying for global union. Find it: sydarthurfestival.com
9 SCOTT WALKER LIGHT
Scott's soundtrack for The Childhood Of A Leader film is coming in August, so let's revisit this from his score for Leos Carax's 1999 film Pola X. His most melodic work since his '60s heyday? Find it: YouTube
10 BJÖRK COME TO ME (LIVE)
From Vulnicura Live, a multiple-strings and booming percussive weirdness reworking of this once-innocent trip hop number from 1993Õs Debut. Find it: YouTube
11 SUGAR COAT ME INSTEAD
The new project from former Congregation and theaudience linchpin (and BBC Radio London traffic voice) Billy Reeves is a languid swirl of deep country melancholy. Find it: https://theeceecees.org
12 THE GOON SAX UP TO ANYTHING
Young Brisbane indie rock three-piece play it fey and bedroom-bound, like a young Morrissey figuring it all out in the tropics. Find it: YouTube
13 THE BONZO DOG BAND ADVENTURES OF THE SON OF EXPLODING SAUSAGE
Edit of David Korr's 1969 Bonzos short film embellished with Innes/ Stanshall numbers that highlight the band's prog-pop chops. Find it: YouTube
14 ‘STICK’ MCGHEE & HIS BUDDIES DRINKIN’ WINE SPO-DEE-O-DEE
Brownie McGhee's brother's 1949 jump-blues about getting blasted and whooping it up with the alley winos on wine, port and sherry. Oh, the glamour! Find it: YouTube
15 ALEX SOMERS FUNERAL PYRE
Choral resonances for watching still-glowing ash blow away on the breeze, with voice from the artist's other half, Sigur R—s's J—nsi. Find it: YouTube
16 DAVID TOOP DRY KEYS ECHO IN THE DARK AND HUMID EARLY HOURS
An investigation into the grey area between noise and "organised sound". Dry on paper, captivating on record, as solitary late-night office noises (a scrape of drawers, a shuffle of papers) become chamber-ambient miniatures. Find it: tinyurl.com/hfoeaw3
17 GZA/THE GENIUS THE SPARK
The Wu-Tang MC marks the Juno probe's arrival at Jupiter by literally dropping science about the Big Bang, space and time. Find it: YouTube
18 ADAM TORRES JUNIPER ARMS
Torres' fragile, reverberating falsetto is the focus of his ornate country-folk-blues. He reaches a remarkable level of intensity on this folk ballad from second album Pearls To Swine. Find it: SoundCloud
19 BFI PLAYER TRIBE OF THE SUN
From the BFI Players' amazing Other Grooves youth docs collection, a Ô72 film of the hippy commune of Dorinish, the atoll off the west coast of Ireland bought by John Lennon in 1967. Find it: tinyurl.com/z89gnpg
20 DELE SOSIMI MEETS PRINCE FATTY & NOSTALGIA 77 E GO BETTER DUB
The Fela Kuti alumnus gets dubbed up, and the results are a mighty blowback of brass, beats and voices. Find it: You No Fit Touch Am In Dub (WAH WAH 45S)