Mdou Moctar
Funeral For Justice MATADOR
On his seventh album, Niger guitarist Moctar holds no truck with such first-world blues concerns as cheating women and fictional hellhounds. Always a political animal, his themes on are larger and his treatments fierier than ever; the twisty rifftrack coruscates over lyrics about the trampling of African rights; the trash-can stomp of demands satisfaction from his country’s former colonial overlords (the vocals are in Tamasheq, but the message gets through).
