CMU Approved

CMU Approved in 2021

By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 14 December 2021

We’ve reached the end of another year, and the CMU Approved column is taking its festive break. Actually, the column had a couple of breaks this year for various reasons. We still managed to find and write about a whole load of incredible new artists across a broad range of genres though.

Right now, what I imagine you want to do is catch up with every single artist we covered, just to double check you haven’t overlooked any absolute gems. And if you’re not already listening to all of these artists on repeat already, then you absolutely should. Luckily for you, we’re here to help out with a playlist featuring all of them. That’s nice of us, huh?

Come back in the new year for yet more great new music, but for now you can listen to the full playlist on Spotify here, and scroll down to link through to the original article on each artist featured.

Full tracklist (plus links to our articles on them) here:

Quinquis – Adkrog

Speed Training – High Treason

Lvra – In Your Blood

Ferla – Nothing Else Matters

Suep – Misery

Sywel Nyw – Seagal

Yoasobi – Into The Night

Debby Friday – Focus

GRLS – Dystopia

Meyy – Do It (feat Joanna)

Mothermary – Coming For You

Caleb Kunle – Could Be Good

Anjimile – Stranger

Danielle Lewis – Slow, Sad And Real

Ätna – Smile

Mhaol – Gender Studies

Los Bitchos – Las Panteras

Leak – Wall

Psykhi – See Me Clearly

BXKS – Mean Amount

Mrley – So Much To Say

Kurtis Wells – Abyss

Cumgirl8 – I Wanna Be

Hamish Hawk – The Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion, 1973

Nation Of Language – This Fractured Mind

Pyra – Paper Promises

Rachika Nayar – August 31st

Foxlee – Heart Attack

Indigo De Souza – Hold U

July Jones – Butterflies (feat Girli & Suzi Wu)

Shn Shn – Maladaptive Daydreams

Lenny – Taurus Sun

Allison Pointer – Hell Is A Crowded Room

H33ra – Mami

JWestern – Active Guy

English Teacher – Wallace

Denise Chaila – 061

Wet Leg – Chaise Longue

Julia-Sophie – CCTV

Hélène Vogelsinger – Reminiscence

Loud Numbers – The Natural Lottery

Blood Cultures – Cabin Fever Freestyle

Sun – Golden

Reb Fountain – Heart

Sinead O’Brien – Kid Stuff

Someone – Strange World

Joviale – Blow!

Jinjé – Cinetique

Feral – Cherry Bomb

Meet Me @ The Altar – Hit Like A Girl

Charmaine – Woo!

Scotch Rolex & Lord Spikeheart – Success

Pauli The PSM – I Got The Beat

Alewya & Moses Boyd – The Code

Naoko Sakata – Improvisation3