ALL BACK TO MY PLACE

THE STARS REVEAL THE SONIC DELIGHTS GUARANTEED TO GET THEM GOING

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The Ace Of Pipering

Chieftains piper and prime mover Paddy Moloney died on October 12

Where are the female producers ?

Let us answer the nagging musical questions and enigmas that haunt you (feel free to chip in, of course)

Irmin Schmidt and Can

THE BEST OF 2021

Mob-La-Di, Mob-La-Da

Len non Vs. The Mafia? Lawyer Jay Bergen t ells all about how they beat the rap

Where There’s A Will There’s A Bill

They’ve thrown a guest-packed Blind Date Par ty. Will Oldham and Bill Callahan inter view each other about “the super-niceness”

LAST NIGHT A RECORD CHANGED MY LIFE

VdGG’s magus salutes Steve Marcus’s free-jazz eruption The Lord’s Prayer (Vor tex, 1969)

BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD REINVENT THEMSELVES FOR “ISLAND ALBUM” TWO

Isle of Wight riot (clockwise from main): Isaac

MATT JOHNSON

The The’s returned generalissimo talks iner tia, prescience, life and death

TRAVIS

TRAVISONLINE.COM

UK SOUL CATALYST GENO WASHINGTON TAKES IT BACK TO THE SWEATY CLUBS

Geno Washington, shakin’ that funky butt on-stage; (inset)

The East Was Rad

Bill Graham’s mighty New York venue the Fillmore East, remembered in all its glory

VIRAL MAVENS OF COTTAGE- CORE WET LEG ON THE CHAISE LONGUE .

“We said, let’s just do a band for

LIVERPOOL’S DIALECT SPEAKS IN TONGUES OF ELECTRO -ACOUSTIC CHAMBER-JAZZ

IF THERE’S a slight echo to Andrew PM

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THE BEST OF 2021

NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS LOW DAVID CROSBYST. VINCENT ROBERT PLANT & ALISON KRAUSS FLOATING POINTS & PHAROAH SANDERS & MORE

Soul dessert

Rediscovered under obscuria’s floorboards: session aces play hot instrumental rock, funk and prog

Dylan books

From the sheaves of big ideas and distor ted facts, an essential Bobliography. Introduced by Danny Eccleston

DECEMBER 1976 John Peel’s Punk Special airs

Then he Anarchist me: (clockwise from main) the

Tom Oldham, Getty From the edge of heaven to the brink of death, music has accompanied Spiritualized’s spaceman-in-chief to extraordinary places, but what’s really going on inside that helmet? “ The songs always seem prescient,” says Jason Pierce. “I worry about that.”

Portrait by TOM OLDHAM THE BEST OF 2021

Better Hide Your Heart

Don’t cry for Laura Nyra the singer-songwriterwho launched a legion of smash-hit covers but whose own albums only inched into the charts. For over 40 years, she turned pain into art into self- knowledge and, as her friends and collaborators insist, victimhood never looked good on her. “She did what she wanted,” they tell Dave DiMartino

'I Was Kind Of A Wild Girl"

Laura Nyro in 1990: “Now that I’m older,

The Best Of 2021

STARRING : THE BEACH BOYS • ST. VINCENT

"I Wanted To Set The Record Straight"

What did the chanteuse of the LA demi-monde learn from her scintillating memoir? “Fame is a hard act to follow,” she tells SYLVIE SIMMONS

"I Had Way To Much Information"

On another planet: Gladys Knight And The Pips

"It's Been One Of My Favourite Tours Ever"

Pioneering the postlockdown return of live music – and much else besides – was Bad Seed WARREN ELLIS. ANDREW MALE caught up with him, just about

JAZZ

1 SONS OF KEMET Black To The Future

UNDERGROUND

1 DIALECT Under~Between (RVNG INTL) 2 SATOMIMAGAE Hanazono

Exploring “climate grief” with fearless writing and sensuous music, THE WEATHER STATION’s Ignorance was one of MOJO’s revelations of 2021. Now Tamara Lindeman has a whole new album ready to fly. “I didn’t know if anyone was ever going to hear it,” she tells DORIAN LYNSKEY. “I just wanted it to exist.”

THE BEST OF 2021 RECORDING HER UPCOMING SIXTH

ELECTRONICA

1 LORAINE JAMES Reflection (HYPERDUB) 2 SPACE

FOLK

1 PEGGY SEEGER First Farewell (RED GRAPE)

SOUNDTRACKS

1 CLINT MANSELL In The Earth (INVADA)

BLUES

CHRISTONE ‘KINGFISH’ INGRAM 662 (ALLIGATOR) 2 TIA CARROLL

"I'm Trying To Go Deeper And Go Deeper."

“I can embody it in my physicality on-stage”:

AMERICANA

1 STEVE EARLE & THE DUKES J.T. (NEW

WORLD

1 RODRIGO AMARANTE Drama (POLYVINYL)(POLYVINYL) 2 FEMI

"It Seems Quite A Niche Idea, Right?"

How jazz, classical and electronica combined on the album that healed 2021.

"When We Fell Out Of Favour, We Grew Up"

A treasure chest from the post-Smile shipwreck of Hawthorne’s finest thrilled us in 2021. AL JARDINE and BRUCE JOHNSTON receive MOJO’s laurels from BILL DeMAIN

"The best thing I've heard all years!"

The musical discoveries that salved and inspired MOJO’s stars of 2021

ZAPPA CRASHES AT 200 MOTELS

He’d formed a new line-up of the Mothers, experimented with orchestra and rock band, and released 1970’s divisive Chunga’s Revenge. Now FRANK ZAPPA had a new challenge: to create maximum confusion on the movie screen, in one week, on a budget of $679,000. For October ’71’s absurdist, fx-scrambled pseudo-tour-doc, he’d be joined by Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, the RPO and… Albert Steptoe? “When you go on the road,” say principals and band members, “it makes you crazy.”

I CAN’T QUIT YOU BABY

Ghosts in the machine: The Rolling Stones play on in honour of Charlie Watts (from left) Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Nissan Stadium, Nashville, October 9, 2021

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Mountain language

Hay hay, my my – Neil Young’s 41st studio album sees him saddling up Crazy Horse and thinking about the good old days. By Keith Cameron. Illustration by Justin Metz

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Lana Del Rey ★★★★ Blue Banisters INTERSCOPE/POLYDOR. CD/DL/LP

American Standard Time

Risk-averse Chicago drummer/producer’s rhy thmically deep reimagining of Blue Note material. By Andy Cowan

The Impossible Dream

This is where the story ends. This is goodbye. By Jim Irvin

SOUNDTRACKS

Various ★★★★ The French Dispatch OST ABKCO. CD/DL/LP

ELECTRONIC

Various ★★★★ @0 AHEAD OF OUT TIME. CD/DL/LP

FOLK

Martyn Joseph ★★★★ 1960 PIPE. CD/DL Self-searching reflections

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Ichiko Aoba ★★★★ Windswept Adan BA DA BING. DL/LP

EXTENDED PLAY

Taking it to the streets: The Clean busk

Playground Twist

An 11-CD/18-LP box covers Bowie’s five ’90s albums : among the extras the unissued Toy. By Jon Savage

Roots manoeuvre

Five-CD exploration of Mike Scott’s Irish Adventure, Part Two.

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Various ★★★★ Fire Draw Near RIVER LEA. CD/DL

Elvis Presley

★★★★ Back In Nashville RCA/LEGACY. CD/DL/LP The King’s

Songs of devotion

Four discs bring together overlooked works by Florian Fricke’s kosmischers.

Leo Nocentelli

★★★★ Another Side LIGHT IN THE ATTIC. CD/DL/LP

String driven thing

How an exhausted insurance clerk made a baroque’n’roll classic.

Philly flyers

Various

REISSUES EXTRA

Cluster ★★★★ Cluster 71 BUREAU B. LP After

Here, There And Everywhere

McCar tney talks through his back pages, 1956 to 2020, in 154 alphabetically arranged songs

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Leonard Cohen: domesticity, fatherhood and creative tumult. Getty

Heal the pain

Dysfunctional family drama disguised as a rock documentary