MOJO PLAYLIST

Turn on! For the month’s best rock romance, jazz and ghost songs.

1 P.J. HARVEY A CHILD’S QUESTION, AUGUST

The first taste of a new LP, a static reverberation of guitar and thudding tom-toms ground a haunting, delicate melody, with olde worlde imagery of rooks and corn spinning an ancient, ghostly love song.

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2 GARTH HUDSON SOPHISTICATED LADY

The Band’s keyboard genius plays a Duke Ellington tune at a private show in upstate New York. Not a dry eye in the house.

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3 ARTHUR RUSSELL THE BOY WITH A SMILE

An etheric cello-wobbler from upcoming set Picture Of Bunny Rabbit, which collects unreleased World Of Echo-period material. Find it: BandCamp

4 GRIAN CHATTEN THE SCORE

Fontaines D.C.’s frontman Grian Chatten opens with a deftly plucked acoustic guitar before skittering electronics take an In Rainbows direction. Glowing.

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5 LUCINDA WILLIAMS (WITH PATTI SCIALFA AND BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN) NEW YORK COMEBACK

Weathered rock’n’roll romance and affirmation, aided by Bruce and Patti. Find it: YouTube

6 NICKY WIRE CONTACT SHEETS

A feel-sad hit of summer as Wire previews his new LP: like lateera Felt infiltrating Ringo’s Photograph for memories “you just can’t delete”. Find it: nickywire.bandcamp

7 JULIE BYRNE SUMMER GLASS

An accepting elegy with arpeggiating electronics, Byrne’s aching vocal and metaphors of departure.

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8 ALABASTER DEPLUME SALTY ROAD DOGS VICTORY ANTHEM

The jazz mage and band’s new battle theme:

Éthiopiques sax incantations; post-punk bottom end; echo deck dub FX… a big win. Find it: streaming services

9 SONS OF KEN WORK ALL NITE

After the ‘Aisis’ AI faux-Gallaghers LP, a computer sings over Tom Tom Club/Rushent/Dust Bros belt-loosened funk for whiskery B-boys. Find it: BandCamp

10 DAME EDNA EVERAGE S&M LADY

We could’ve gone with her Disco Matilda or The Leader Of The Pack, but here the Housewife Superstar goes punk/sleaze in 1978 (farewell, Barry Humphries).

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