MOJO PLAYLIST
More fire! For the month’s best kosmische, prog-pop and soul.
1 NADIA REID BEST THING
The first track from Reid’s Spacebomb-recorded Out Of My Province, scans as a hymn to love, especially maternal love, with its womb-like, heartbeat drums and a PJ Harveyish string-led melody that swoops.
Find it: YouTube
2 SANGOKAKU (FT BONNIE PRINCE BILLY & KATE STABLES) CABANE
Belgian Thomas Jean Henri recruits Oldham and This Is The
Kit’s Kate Stables. Their voices make a lovely, Sufjan-ish blend: Sean O’Hagan adds strings. Find it: SoundCloud
3 LAURYN HILL GUARDING THE GATES
Her first in five years; a reassertion of her business-confounding MO, first performed in 2005: “You can laugh at me/But I’m in love!” Find it: streaming services
4 MOSES SUMNEY VIRILE
Harps, flutes, beats and full-on falsetto critique gender conventions, maximally. Find it: streaming services
5 TULUUM SHIMMERING BLUE WATER SUNRAY
One track to rule them all.
Psych/kosmische jockey piles on the bliss for four hours! Find it: Bandcamp.com
6 GEMMA RAY MY WORLD IS EMPTY WITHOUT YOU BABE
A slow, echoey, heartsore dissection of The Supremes’ heartbreak hit. Slowed right down, the song’s desolation overflows.
Find it: streaming services
7 SQUAREPUSHER VORTRAK
Analogue sounds for sped-up films of a ripe petri-dish, as
mountain-sized acid blobs burst and drum’n’bass ghosts try, and fail, to dance. Find it: streaming services
8 JAMES BLACKSHAW WHY KEEP STILL?
The guitar prodigy retired from music in 2016. Here, though, is his very welcome return: a Basho-ist instrumental up with his very best. Find it: Adultswim.com
9 THE HOMESICK I CELEBRATE MY FANTASY
New Sub Pop act keep rhythms tricksy, melodies spry and harmonies baroque on a woodwind-enhanced prog-pop dash into the haunted house. Find it: streaming services
10 MOSES BOYD ONLY YOU
The shite-hot drummer of the UK jazz young turks combines synth goth and UK garage in a total percussion experience for the mind. The Dark Matter LP follows in Feb. Find it: streaming services