One for the lovers of psych-funk here as Juju Rogers’ new single Elohim pits a bedrock of throbbing bass and vintage-style funk drums against fuzz and squalling wah-wah guitar while his vocals soar over the top – much of the time in a falsetto – giving way to Jamila Woods in the middle before returning as everything reaches a crescendo. It’s the sort of thing you can file next to Creations Unlimited, the Dynamic Corvettes and the funkier side of Black Merda and therefore some way from anything you’d find among the lo-fi hip-hop of 2015’s debut LP From The Life Of A Good For Nothing. Elohim is also the first single off forthcoming LP Pink Guitars, Spaceships N Voodoo Dolls which besides delving into psych-funk also apparently nods to skinhead/rudeboy and Afropunk sub-cultures – a musical bouillabaisse that Rogers refers to as Afrophunk. One to watch then.
(Out now on Counterkultur)
