Look out! It’s the month’s best punk-funk, bossa and acidÉ
1 LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (WE DON’T THIS) FASCIST GROOVE THANG Where next for the makers of MOJO’s best album of 2017? Into Electric Lady Studios for a raw, punk-funk take on Heaven 17’s 1981 synth-protest banger. Note Nancy Whang changing the lyric from “Reagan’s presidentelect” to “The orange one is president”. Find it: YouTube 2 DJ PIERRE ACID (PIERRE’S ACID FACE MIX) It’s MOJO 303 – so let the Phuture house don stick his electrode in the brain’s Roland-zone and give it some serious poke as voices groan “ACID!” orgasmically over a strict 4/4 lash. Find it: YouTube 3 JESSICA PRATT THIS TIME AROUND
A folk singer based in LA, Pratt’s music is hushed, spare, intimate, almost unnerving. Find it: YouTube 4 IBIBIO SOUND MACHINE BASQUIAT
Written as part of a ‘video jam’, this is as bold a statement of Afrobeat-meets-’80s synth-sonics as the artist who inspired it. Find it: streaming services 5 SUNFLOWER BEAN KING OF THE DUDES “This EP does not give a fuck,” insist the Brooklyn trio, and singer Julia Cumming inhabits the title track with lip-curling brilliance. Find it: King Of The Dudes EP (LUCKY NUMBER) 6 MERCURY REV SERMON
An unexpected sequel to 2018’s bumper Bobbie Gentry box set: the Rev reimagine her 1968 masterpiece The Delta Sweete. Guest vocalists include, as heard here, Margo Price. Find it: YouTube 7 A. SWAYZE & THE GHOSTS SUDDENLY Australian punk fans assemble for your next dose of highvelocity Saints-indebted yelping youngsters, this time from Hobart, Tasmania. Find it: YouTube 8 JESSE JO STARK WISH I WAS DEAD
Those of a sensitive disposition should avoid this goddaughter of Cher (not a euphemism) who rocks sleazy goth-a-billy aplomb. Find it: YouTube 9 THE WEATHER STATION (FEAT. JENNIFER CASTLE) I TRIED TO TOUCH THE WORLD The Tamara Lindeman (AKA The Weather Station) half of a split 7-inch by two Canadian singer-songwriters whose dream-team was convened for the Polaris Music Prize. Find it: streaming services 10 BLOOD EVERYWHERE HONEY Unnerving, jaw-clenching discohouse with congas, entropybeeps and velvet wooshes. On new concept-tape Enthusiasm (includes Wifes, Everybody’s Hobbies and The Receiving End). Find it: SoundCloud MOJO PLAYLIST