1 BILL MACKAY
Radiator
On his new album Locust Land, this Chicago-based guitarist and improviser makes his closest attempt so far at a singer-songwriter record. While this track, laced with crunchy guitars and vintage organ, is instrumental, it ebbs, flows and glistens like a Liege & Lief ballad tackled by the Velvets.
2 JOHN CALE
Shark-Shark
A lighter counterpart to the magisterial gloom of last year’s , continues Cale’s run of excellent 21st-century records. Here’s one of the fiercest cuts, with ragged
