funk
Emma-Jean Thackray’s Yellow LP is an essential work of cosmic jazz-not-jazz informed by club culture and unlike anything else around
Gilles Peterson and Jean-Paul Maunick’s STR4TA evoke late 70s to early 80s Brit-funk in true to form DIY style and make it the sound of 2021
Surprise Chef’s Lachlan Stuckey tells Stewart Gardiner about cinematic soul, naming their HQ after a prison and making a deeper second LP
Australian instrumentalists Surprise Chef’s marvellous debut LP All News Is Good News recalls mavericks such as David Axelrod, Beastie Boys and Money Mark
Sven Wunder’s Wabi Sabi is a treasure trove of psychedelic breaks and beathead jams for crate diggers, library music aficionados and outsider funk fans