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CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise this week, from Madonna, Sofie Royer, Bleech 9:3, Nick León, Namasenda + Alewya…
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🎧 Approved: WIDGET
WIDGET make Hannah Montana-referencing, discofied dance rock, which sounds better than it reads, trust me. New single ‘WHAT IF PHONES BUT TOO MUCH’ is an arpeggiated bop about smashing glass ceilings and imagining everyone’s face replaced with Danny Dyer’s…
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🎧 Approved: Finn Askew
Finn Askew doesn’t sound like a Bieber knockoff, he just happens to be fishing in the same water, and pulling out something of his own. ‘BLUEBOY’, his new six track mixtape, is lush slow jams done right, built on minimalist trap drums and close-mic vocals…
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🎧 Approved: Kat Duma
Kat Duma crafts sound with dubby rhythms, ethereal pop textures, and moments that shimmer with recognition before slipping away again. New single 'Mirrored Water' has a quietly Madonna-esque quality, a bit like 'Frozen', but pulled somewhere a little more whimsical…
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🎧 Approved: Widowspeak
NYC duo Widowspeak deal in a kind of effortless Americana alchemy, dream pop, a little Stones, a little Petty, open and languid ballads with the twang of a Lynchian roadhouse band. New single ‘No Driver’ is a lush, widescreen pop gem, unhurried and wide-open…
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CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise this week, from Kelela, Big Softy, Newdad, Laufey + IZCO…
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🎧 Approved: Modern Woman
There's Kate Bush in the DNA, avant-garde tendencies, folk tradition, but Modern Woman have gone and folded post-punk into the whole thing, which works beautifully. New single ‘Johnny’s Dreamworld’, is feverishly brilliant…
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🎧 Approved: Alewya
Raised in West London with Ethiopian and Egyptian roots, alt-soul hyphenate Alewya treats heritage as something active rather than archival. She doesn’t move like a conventional artist, describing herself as a painter who makes music, which makes sense when you sit with her songs…
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CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise this week, from Alewya, Pigeon, Robyn, Lambrini Girls + Getdown Services…
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🎧 Approved: Shock Corridor
Shock Corridor’s songs don't so much arrive as accumulate, stretched and shaped through live performance until they’ve got a kind of bone-density to them. New track ‘Buster’ is beautifully atmospheric, though not in any passive sense. It recalls the tense, watchful mood of ‘A Forest’ by The Cure…
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CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise this week, from Raye, Fcukers, Venbee, Ray Laurél + Model/Actriz…
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🎧 Approved: X & Ivy
X & Ivy have built up a reputation as reliable party chefs, cooking up early Chicago house and Detroit techno with a sprinkle of breakbeat and acid textures of 90s UK rave. New EP ‘Broken Jam’, is the sound of two producers who know exactly what they’re doing and aren’t wasting anyone’s time…