MOJO PRESENT
HANDLE WITH CARE
NEW MUSIC 2022
IT’S BEEN QUITE A WHILE SINCE WE PUT TOGETHER A GRABbag CD of eclectic new music to accompany our magazine – 30 issues, in fact, since the MOJO Rising compilation of October 2019. That disc introduced Fontaines D.C., Yola, Black Midi, Mdou Moctar, Weyes Blood, Amyl And The Sniffers and many others who have since become critical players in the MOJO universe.
Two-and-a-half years on, the time seems right to do it again. We’re proud, then, to unveil Handle With Care and our MOJO Class Of 2022 – the rabble-rousers, storytellers, classical artisans and radical innovators destined to soundtrack this eventful year.
Here you’ll find heartland folk and electro epiphany; searing post-punk and transcendental jazz; a song from the Sahara, sung in Welsh; and a prevailing spirit, exemplified by Los Bitchos, of pan-global “zing-zang”. An index of forward-thinking possibilities, and of the creative diversity of the new musicmakers we try and represent in each issue of MOJO. The best thing that you’ve ever found? Handle it with care…
1 WORI MEN'S WIDOW
Vishesh Sharma, Karen Paulina Biswell, Chris Almeida, Ian Laidlaw, Tom Whitson, Phoebe Fox, Joshua Black Wilkins, Desdemona Burgin, Matt Correia
Syd Minsky-Sargeant and co emerged in 2020, melding vituperative songcraft with pulsating dancefloor electronica in a way few have managed since the heyday of New Order. Widow is a sneak preview of the new Working Men’s Club music coming in 2022.