MOJO PLAYLIST
Yo! Bum rush the month’s best rock, rap and psych-cha-cha.
1 RACHAEL DADD CUT MY ROOTS
This Is The Kit-aligned singer-songwriter with a similar gift for vocal melodies and proggy-folk virtuosity brings warm tones and lyrics hinting at turbulence. From her LP Flux. Find it: streaming services
2 WILLIAM DOYLE DESIGN GUIDE
Eno joins the former East India Youth for an electric-bucolic examination of English suburbia. From new LP Your Wilderness Revisited. Find it: streaming services
3 WALRUS COOL TO WHO
Nova Scotia neo-psych from the home of Besnard Lakes, in the mould of Scottish bands De Rosa or The Delgados.
Find it: streaming services
4 SHAKESPEARS SISTER WITH RICHARD HAWLEY WHEN SHE FINDS YOU
Transatlantic pop duo recruit Hawley as the third person in their retro-electro nervy psychodrama. From new EP, Ride Again.
Find it: streaming services
5 THE KINKS SHANGRI-LA
A 2019 mix of Ray Davies’s madrigal for dunroamin. From the extras-packed 50-year
expansion of Arthur (Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire). Find it: YouTube
6 CONWAY THE MACHINE FEAT. BENNY THE BUTCHER & WESTSIDE GUNN TITO’S BACK
The Buffalo, NY, rapper and friends keep it dank and ghoulish, with spooky piano, Spiderman references and jaded bravado. Find it: YouTube
7 MOON DUO ETERNAL SHORE
Mixed by Sonic Boom, a dance to fuzzy Latin trip-grooves. From new album Stars Are The Light. Find it: streaming services
8 LIGHTNING BOLT AIR CONDITIONING
Guitar’n’drums noisemongers bring hairy thrash of purgation, idiocy and structure amid chaos. From new album Sonic Citadel. Find it: YouTube
9 LINDSTRØM REALLY DEEP SNOW
From new LP On A Clear Day I Can See You Forever, here are
electronic pulses, improv keys and eldritch Farfisa rhythm box. Brr!
Find it: SoundCloud
10 WILLIAM TYLER GO YOUR OWN WAY
Nashville picker (Lambchop, Will Oldham) Tyler locates the backwoods boondock flowing through Lindsey Buckingham’s riposte to Dreams with layers of reverberant guitar. Find it: streaming services