MOJO PLAYLIST
Plug in! For the month’s best exotica, maestro guitars and electro.
1 BILLY F GIBBONS WEST COAST JUNKIE
With drums loaned from Walk, Don’t Run, the ’Top’s psych connoisseur testifies about heading to the coast for some “champagne and a little bit of weed”, to serious twang. Find it: YouTube
2 AROOJ AFTAB MOHABBAT
An incredible singer from New York’s jazz/experimental scene, Aftab turns a Pakistani classical ghazal into glimmering baroque folk akin to Joanna Newsom. Find it: Bandcamp
3 MOLLY LEWIS OCEANIC FEELING
As-seen-on-the-’net Australian Lewis (“the human Theremin”)
uses her lithe, melodic whistle to Martin Denny-esque effect on sultry exotica. Find it: YouTube
4 CHEMICAL BROTHERS THE DARKNESS THAT YOU FEAR
Part private psychedelic reel and part zerohour anthem, the Chems’ new single sets down gently and blasts off into ecstatic disco abandon, with spookily soothing vox.
Find it: streaming services
5 REIGNING SOUND OH CHRISTINE
Greg Cartwright, the man who
does write them like they used to, gets his band’s Memphis line-up back together for a pop-soul heartbreaker for melancholy wine drinkers. Find it: streaming services
6 VIRNA LINDT ONCE
Stockholm’s glamorous spy/1982 indie chart-topper back with eight minutes of polar disco tinged by remembrance and regret. Find it: YouTube
7 EL NINO DIABLO DITHERING HEIGHTS
Minimal but spiritually ecstatic, this Berlin electronicist brings jazzy buoyancy to an ambient track on new EP, Dreamweaving. Find it: Bandcamp
LONELADY 8 (THERE IS) NO LOGIC
The medieval memento mori meets early-’80s, nerve-baring electro in the Haçienda for Julie Campbell’s first single in six years. Piquant! Find it: streaming services
9 ERLAND COOPER HAAR OVER HAMNAVOE (BILL RYDER-JONES REWORK)
Fans of EC’s Orkney-inspired mood include MOJO editor Weller and Ryder-Jones, who mixes this Skule Skerry track to its bare bones. Find it: YouTube
10 MARISA ANDERSON & WILLIAM TYLER LOST FUTURES
Serene conflab between two latter-day guitar maestros. Hard to imagine an instrumental about crushed hopes could sound so pretty. Find it: Bandcamp