MOJO PLAYLIST
Rock action, funk and space music? It’s all on.
1 CAT POWER A PAIR OF BROWN EYES
Chan Marshall kicks off another tranche of covers with this unsteadily ethereal Pogues rethink. Very much captures the spirit, if not the sound, of Shane MacGowan.
Find it: streaming services
2 J MASCIS DEATH OF A DREAM
Sweetness, guitar grind and self-realisation, from tribute set Highway Butterfly – The Songs Of Neal Casal. Within, Steve Earle, Bob Weir and more play for the late guitarist’s charity. Find it: nealcasalmusicfoundation.org
3 BITCHIN BAJAS OUTER SPACEWAYS INCORPORATED
New Age Chicagoans expand on their Sun Ra fetish for a whole album of covers – including this electropop trinket: think cosmic ritual re-scored by Wendy Carlos.
Find it: Bandcamp
GINA BIRCH 4 FEMINIST SONG
The Raincoats’ bass/voice’s first solo 45! Electronics and Spectorpop pulses with righteous rage: “To hell with powerlessness!”
Find it: Third Man single
BAXTER DURY D.O.A. 5
The newie, made with his son Kosmo, from Dury’s new best-of Mr Maserati 20012021; condemned, bittersweet Albion-rap seeking impossible absolution.
Find it: streaming services
FULU MIZIKI BIVADA 6
Congolese collective’s head-crunching, dancefloor version of Congotronics, played on what sounds like digitised thumb pianos. Find it: YouTube
BACAO RHYTHM & STEEL BAND 7 MY JAMAICAN DUB
Can you cover a dub version? But of course. Grace Jones gets the steel drum treatment, with breaks, brass and bass also a speciality. Find it: streaming services
CATHERINE GRAINDORGE ELDORADO 8
John Parish-produced Belgian composer employs droning harmonium and heavy treatment of her violin and viola to reverberant, ambient-unsettling effect. Find it: streaming services
9 JANE WEAVER SUNSET DREAMS
Weaver’s crystalline voice, distanced by FX, takes an analogue bubblebath on this sad-robot broadcast from her Sunset Dreams EP. Find it: streaming services
10 RICHARD FEARLESS FUTURE RAVE MEMORY
A companion to Deep Rave Memory, this kosmische hour heads deeper into acidic drone until you enter the feedback omphalos. Find it: streaming services