Seema Farswani’s single, ‘Got My Mojo Working’ featuring Dem-C, has been looping in my head, and it feels less like a track and more like a beautifully vexing predicament set to a very groovy beat. The premise is so disarmingly human, isn't it? This notion of possessing a potent personal magnetism, a kind of everyday folk magic that bends the world just so, only...

50mething, the 58-year-old British independent solo artist, confronts global horror with disarming brightness on his jarring new single, "Gaza (on and on and on)". Hailing from Ealing, Paul Jenner an ex-dancer and former garden builder operating from his DIY home studio crafts story-based music that speaks directly to structural injustice. Here, he takes the endless, agonizing cycle of war and deliberately sneaks it inside...