The 14th MOJO Playlist Of 2018
This week’s navel-gazing selections from the MOJO office stereo: all bases covered!
Lots of headline business this week, notably the arrival of Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino by our current MOJO cover stars, the Arctic Monkeys, and the new Donald Glover/Childish Gambino single. Let us know what you make of those, and please do try some of the deeper discoveries in the latest playlist: two personal favorites here are the Ethiopiques-style jams of Kamal Keila and the beautiful new meditation from the avant-folk guitarist, Daniel Bachman, but it’s all worth a listen.
1 Childish Gambino – This Is America (RCA)
2 Brendon Anderegg – June (Thrill Jockey)
3 Daniel Bachman – The Morning Star (Three Lobed)
4 Gregory Isaacs – Ikon: The Best Of Gregory Isaacs, The Cool Ruler (Island)
5 Luluc – Sculptor (Sub Pop)
6 Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band – Rare Dreams (No Quarter)
7 Dirty Projectors – Lamp Lit Prose (Domino)
8 White Denim – Performance (City Slang)
9 Snail Mail – Lush (Matador)
10 Alfredo Thiermann & Tres Warren – Land In The Sky (BYM Records)
11 Kamal Keila – Muslims And Christians (Habibi Funk)
12 Orbital – Tiny Foldable Cities (ACP Recordings)
13 Dobet Gnahore - Miziki (LA Café/Wagram Music)
14 David Sylvian & Holger Czukay - Plight & Premonition (Grönland)
15 Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel And Casino (Domino)
16 Cowboy Junkies – All That Reckoning (Proper)
17 Jim James – Uniform Distortion (ATO)