CMU Approved

Approved: Playlist Of 2017

By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 22 December 2017

There’s been a lot of great new music in 2017, as you’ll hear when you listen to this playlist of (almost) all the artists featured in the CMU Approved column this year. There are 166 tracks on the playlist, including our five artists of the year up top. Check it out on Spotify now.

Full tracklist (including those not available on Spotify):

• St Vincent – Los Ageless
• Kelela – Frontline
• Jhene Aiko – Jukai
• Kelly Lee Owens – Lucid
• Lorde – Green Light
• Ea Kaya – Remedy
• Qrion – Quick Turn
• Anna Burch – Tea-Soaked Letter
• Afrikan Boy – Wot It Do
• Yullippe – Selfish&Anchor
• Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet – We Learn To Speak Yet Another Language
• Praa – Modelling Clay
• Lannds – Words
• EPROM – Drone Warfare
• Bitch Falcon – Of Heart
• Cosmo Sheldrake – Mind Of Rocks
• Parker – Doubles
• Thunder Jackson – Guilty Party
• Lia Lia – Yin Yang
• Utrecht – Live Underground
• 7Chariot – Ricochet
• Pitou – Problems
• Mai Lan – Blaze Up
• Anenon – Verso
• Alison Wonderland – Happy Place
• Sera Eke – Coup! Coup! Coup!
• Rhi – Cherry Glow
• VTCN Radio – Riddle Song
• Emma – Mindmaze
• Zilla – The Sleepwalker
• Molly – Glimpse
• Rolo Tomassi – Rituals
• Poppy Ackroyd – The Calm Before
• Better Lost Than Stupid – Alto
• Ggoolldd – The Way That I Feel
• Drahla – Silk Spirit
• Ghita – Mindfvck
• Mei – Steppin
• Young Juvenile Youth – Slapback
• Dagny – Love You Like That
• King – Only U
• Makemake – I’m The Form In The Way
• House Of Tapes – Dark Lands
• Erin McCarley – Sexicon
• T Raumschmiere – Eterna
• Louiza – Leash On A Tiger
• Aris Kindt – Several Wolves
• Rocheman – Windmill
• Eera – Living
• Bassh – Go To
• Lucianblomkamp – Still No
• Lokane – Blocked feat Dai Burger
• Snapped Ankles – Hanging With The Moon
• Torres – Helen In The Woods
• Fran Lobo – War
• Liima – 1982
• Coucou Chloe – Flip U
• Intergalactic Lovers – River
• Art School Girlfriend – Bending Back
• Ellis May – Surrender
• Leah Kardos – Open
• San Jua – Swirls In The Swimming Pool
• Zgto – Band Man
• Sephine Llo – First To Tarnish
• French For Rabbits – It Will Be Okay
• George Glew – Bury Me
• Bdy_Prts – Rooftops
• Wy – What Would I Ever Do
• Suzi Wu – Teenage Witch
• Deadkebab & Psychics – Douche
• Tusks – Dissolve
• Grip Tight – Get To Know
• Ilk – Somer
• Rare Monk – Phosphorescence
• Lost Midas – Montecito
• James Yuill – Fire Breathing
• King Henry – Destiny (feat Ry X)
• Man Duo – What If It Falls
• Ayla – Shallow End
• Sega Bodega – Nivea
• Luna Shadows – Thorns
• Katie Von Schleicher – Sell It Back
• Esther Joy – Samgel
• Femme – Fire With Fire
• Ella Soto – Supermarket
• Kommode – Captain Of Your Sinking Ship
• Káryyn – Yajna
• Frightened Rabbit – Fields Of Wheat
• Diamond Thug – Eclipsed
• Yoshimi – Mountain People
• Vivienxo – TTYN
• Susanne Sundfør – Undercover
• Violet Days – I’m A Dreamer
• Dauwd – Glass Jelly
• AlaskaAlaska – Bitter Winter
• Barbarossa – Griptide
• Washed Out – Get Lost
• Fishbach – Night Bird (Petit Monstre)
• Yungblud – King Charles
• Violet Skies – Island
• Sampa The Great – Paved With Gold
• Boxed In – Pushing On
• White Wine – Hurry Home
• Hanne Hukkelberg – The Whip
• Jun Kamoda – Blind Disco
• Jay Johnson – Midnight Men
• Femme En Fourrure – So Good At This (feat Vivienxo)
• Tove Styrke – Say My Name
• James Heather – Empire Sounds
• Archivist – Wild Hope
• Tim Linghaus – At The End All Is Black
• Pom Poko – Jazz Baby
• Pieces Of Juno – Black Acres
• Rinngs – Cutting The Cloth
• Elm – Concentrate
• PassCode – Bite The Bullet
• Erik Luebs – Red C
• Luwten – Indifference
• Pat Dam Smyth – Juliette
• Dark Sky – The Walker
• Young Yizzy – This Is Life
• Ellen Arkbro – Mountain Of Air
• Anneka – Life Force
• Oumou Sangaré – Yere Faga
• Aldous Harding – Imagining My Man
• Syd – Treading Water (All About Me)
• Jim Perkins – Junk Bonds
• Wrongtom Meets The Ragga Twins – Bacchanal
• Zoee – 1-2-1
• Charisma.com – Not Not Me
• Otoboke Beaver – Love Is Short
• Umoja – Take Me High
• Zombie-Chang – I Can’t Get To Sleep
• Julietta – Beach Break
• Ängie – Spun
• K Flay – High Enough
• Lylo – You Have Your Father’s Eyes
• Vukovi – La Di Da
• Perera Elsewhere – Something’s Up
• Born Stranger – Cheating Love
• Blanco White – El Búho
• Lxandra – Flicker
• Park Hotel – Gone As A Friend
• Aadae – River Of Tears
• Eivør – Into The Mist
• Stevie Parker – Without You
• Ulsect – Fall To Depravity
• Nnamdi Ogbonnaya – Hop Off
• Jakuzi – Koca Bir Saçmalık
• Poté – Egosurf (For All It’s Worth)
• Bing & Ruth – The How Of It Sped
• Blinding – Breath In
• All Them Witches – 3-5-7
• Fjer – Better
• White Kite – Swans
• Alexandra Savior – Mirage
• Yunomi – Sayonara Invader
• Cat – You Belong To Me
• Barbagallo – Longue La Nuit (Kevin Parker Remix)
• Half Waif – Severed Logic
• Tei Shi – Keep Running
• Rina Mushonga – Atalanta
• Lady Leshurr – #Unleshed 2
• Meursault – Klopfgeist
• Freddie Dickson – Martim Moniz
• Fjaak – Wolves
• Griff Lynch – Don’t Count On Me
• JFDR – Airborne
• Pharmakon – Transmission
• Lomboy – South Pacific
• Dakota – Icon
• LLLL – From The New World
• Banana – Banana C