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CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise last week, from Lily Allen, Sleaford Mods, Gwendoline Christie, Big Special, Rose Gray, Sampha + Dove Ellis…
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Universal Music beats artists in three separate streaming royalty lawsuits
A Dutch court has ruled on three lawsuits filed against Universal by artists who claimed that the major was incorrectly interpreting old record contracts and paying excessively low royalties on streaming income as a result. Judges concluded that the artists had failed to establish that was happening…
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UK regulator now empowered to consider changing in-app payment rules in Spotify’s favour
Apple and Google’s mobile platforms have both been designated as having ‘strategic market status’ by the CMA, which could result in the UK regulator forcing changes to the two companies’ app store rules, including the in-app payment rules that have long been criticised by Spotify…
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🎧 Approved: Azamiah
Glasgow-based alt-jazz quartet Azamiah craft music that feels like it’s breathing. Their latest release, ‘New Moon’, has that Cleo Sol-esque luminosity; harmonies float, the instruments breathe and silence becomes part of the melody…
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🎧 Approved: Fitzroy Holt
Fitzroy Holt’s sound has blues in its bones, punk in its pulse and an unpredictability born from Black Country grit. Named after a Midlands saying for taking the long way round, new single ‘Around The Wrekin’ is a surge of stoner-rock riffs with punk momentum…
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CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise last week, from Blanco, Olive Jones, bar italia, Jean Dawson + The Maccabees…
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🎧Approved: BIG SPECIAL
Walsall duo Big Special turn post-industrial malaise into something close to gospel, trading in thunderous drums, spoken-word sermons and a humour so black it practically glows. New single, ‘Plaintive Native’, lands somewhere between working-class blues and post-punk sermon…
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🎧 Approved: My First Time
Formed at university, Bristol quartet My First Time channel the scrappy energy of early Blur, the wry storytelling of The Streets, and a splash of Charli XCX’s pop sleaze. New single ‘Sippy Cup’ crashes like a hurled pint glass…
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CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise last week, from Ray Laurél, Labrinth, Ruthven, Kelly Lee Owens + The Belair Lip Bombs…
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🎧 Approved: Austra
Austra is the pop project of Canadian artist Katie Stelmanis, whose music lives between euphoria and unease, like a new-wave Kate Bush mid-transcendence. New single ‘Siren Song’ is trance-like and glimmering, with pulsing basslines and the bittersweet melancholy she does best…
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🎧 Approved: Umut Adan
Turkish singer-songwriter Umut Adan and his Italian band Zebânis have a sound they coin “danceable dissent”. New single ‘Bogotà’ is a hypnotic protest anthem, fusing Anatolian psych with the communal pulse of cumbia…
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CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise last week, from Saint Ludo and Kasst 8, Snõõper, Danny L Harle and Caroline Polachek, Ms* Gloom + Fred Again.. & Amyl And The Sniffers…