BURIED TREASURES
15 key tracks From the greatest albums you'd l never heard
MOJO at 30
1 THE PRISONERS
Deceiving Eye
This sinewy beat club beatdown opens
In From The Cold,
the last album by Medway garage Mods The Prisoners, selected as a Buried Treasure in MOJO 107, back in 2002. This month, though, Graham Day’s reassembled band return to our pages (see p26), with news of a fifth album – a mere 37 years after its predecessor.
Written by Graham Day/James Patrick Taylor. 1986 Countdown Records under license from
2 ANIMALS THAT SWIM
Kinó Beer
“I understand the appeal of the band you like that no-one else does,” Animals That Swim frontman Hank Starrs told MOJO 280, decades after their debut album
Workshy
was released. A shabby-genteel indie masterpiece from the London pub circuit circa 1994.
Written by Hank Starrs, Hugh Barker. Published by BMG Rights Management. &©1994 Elemental Records, a division of One Little Independent Records. From Workshy (Elemental Records); https://www.olirecords.com/
3 ORCHESTRA BAOBAB
Werente Serigne
The Dakar dance band Orchestra Baobab formed in 1970, but their music didn’t sneak out abroad ’til after they’d split, when the 1989
Pirates Choice
LP compiled a clutch of 1982 cassettes. A 2001 reunion has subsequently made them Senegalese music ambassadors.
Written by Ndiouga Dieng, Barthélemy Attisso. BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. 2001 World Circuit Limited, a BMG company. Licensed courtesy of BMG Rights Management (UK) Ltd. GBBGU0163004. From Pirates Choice