MOJOPL AYLIST
Get your boots on your feet for the month’s finest rhythms, riffs and righteous rage, and get stompin’.
1 ST VINCENT
The Big Apple as metaphor for heartbreak, as voice, piano, strings, electric pulses and a big chorus ruminate with increasing distraction on a relationship that’s gone down the Swannee, with Annie Clark making the brave admission, “You’re the only motherfucker in the city who can stand me.” Ever waggish – see her ‘St. Vincent Becomes Ambassador To Recorstorda’ (sic) online clip – she’s previously sung it live sporting a toilet costume, but will she wear it on October’s Fear The Future tour? Find It: YouTube
2 ENDLESS BOOGIE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Prime live in-the-zone-ness from the behemoths of improvisatory inevitability. It’s on a single given away with Paul ‘Top Dollar’ Major’s amazing book Feel The Music, a trove of memories, thoughts and mega-rare wax, out now on Anthology Editions. Find It: YouTube
3 SNAPPED ANKLES JONNY GUITAR CALLING GOSTA BERLIN
Arboreal fun from an East London trio whose high-concept eco art-prank tendencies are offset by some fantastic Slits-y pummelled percussion, post-punk aloofness and from-the-trees whoops and grooves. Find It: YouTube
4 THE HORRORS MACHINE
The Essex goth-gazers return with glitchy, wideload psych rock with gears and pistons, which possibly wishes Martin Hannett had produced it. Bodes well for fifth album V, out in September. Find It: SoundCloud
5 BARRY GIBB SPICKS AND SPECKS
Performed live at this year’s Glastonbury, you can imagine The Bee Gees’ 1966 single being played by The Kinks or Madness, such is its balance of pop sing-along and colossal poignancy, especially a half-century on. Find It: iPlayer
6 MATTHEW DEAR MODAFINIL BLUES
Bassy, rhythmic wooziness for the yacht club, wherein the Michigan producer/ artiste muses upon his alertnesspromoting medication, “I searched and I yearned for that pill to get me through.” Find It: SoundCloud 7 NEIL YOUNG + THE PROMISE OF THE REAL CHILDREN OF DESTINY With brass and clumpy drums, this orchestral song of people power finds Neil calling for proper American values, saving the world and the youth to clear up the greedheads’ mess. Find It: YouTube
8 BERNARD HERRMANN THE MURDER
The celebrated terror-in-the-shower slashing strings theme from Hitchcock’s Psycho thoughtfully reissued on seven-inch in a limited run of 1960 copies. Mother! Find It: Stylotone 7-inch
9 WASHED OUT HARD TO SAY GOODBYE
From new album Mister Mellow, this replicates the elegant sounds of mid-’90s Parisian house, as heard on Étienne de Crécy’s Super Discount comp. Find It: SoundCloud
10 DEAD CROSS BELA LUGOSI’S DEAD
Now with Mike Patton on vocals, Slayer/Misfits drummer Dave Lombardo’s Dead Cross add a whole new layer of mortal dread to the Bauhaus original with buzzing guitars and gravedigger vocals. Find It: YouTube
11 PROPHETS OF RAGE UNFUCK THE WORLD
Tom Morello, Chuck D and pals spew righteous anger advocating strong unification vibes and self-accountability over top grooves and brutal basslines. Find It: Vevo
12 SABRINA MALHEIROS SOL, CEU E MAR
Unleash your inner Giles Peterson; pour yourself a caipirinha and surrender to the warm embrace of slap-bass and lightly funky Rhodes piano on this track from the glassy-voiced Malheiros’ Clareia album. Find It: YouTube
13 SUBWAY JOE JOE BATAAN
Raucous boogaloo-soul with blaring approaching-train brass from ’65, where our narrator comes a cropper and gets his brand-new suit torn trying to get a seat on the underground. Rough! Find It: YouTube
14 MURA MASA BLU (FT. DAMON ALBARN)
In cahoots with the Guernsey producer, here Albarn slips onto vocoder for a minimal tech-soul song of loneliness and not being understood. Feel the quality. Find It: SoundCloud
15 RAMONES SWALLOW MY PRIDE
An unreleased version recorded at NY’s Sundragon studio, taken from the new, extras-packed 40th anniversary reissue of Leave Home. Find It: SoundCloud
16 FISCHERSPOONER HAVE FUN TONIGHT
The NY Electroclash duo break silence, keeping it part techno, part Visage, with instructions to “Get Off”. From the album SIR, which is co-written and co-produced by one Michael Stipe. Yes, that fine fellow. Find It: YouTube
17 THE 360 BAND THE MIGHTY FALL
Where The Average White Band – or three of them – reunite for a funky and soulful tribute to the greatness of Muhammad Ali, something you can never be reminded of too many times, right? Find It: YouTube
18 ROTTERDAM TERMINATION SOURCE POING
A Number 27 hit from 1992, here is gabba super-simplicity from the Manchester of the Netherlands. Like being bashed over the head repeatedly with a rubber mallet. Find It: YouTube 19 BOYS WONDER NOW WHAT EARTHMAN A 1987 single from pop-art could’ve beens who were in on the terrace rock revival early (they later mutated into Corduroy). Find It: YouTube
20 SHELLAC DOG AND PONY SHOW
Shellac are coming to the UK in October! To celebrate our good fortune, here’s the world’s greatest (occasionally) active tungsten trio rumbling through a highlight from 1994. Find It: YouTube