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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 Dove Ellis, Peaches, Boj, TOMORA + Confidence Man…
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🎧 Approved: samxemma
samxemma build electronic pop that sounds like optimism trying to reboot itself. New single ‘Me forever :(‘ is another beautifully chaotic, maximalist blast from the duo with over bright, club-leaning synths and percussion that sounds like someone shaking the internet until a feeling falls out…
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🎧 Approved: Angel Du$t
Baltimore’s Angel Du$t have done the awkward, interesting work of turning hardcore’s blunt force into something porous and strange - they’re loud, messy and stubbornly generous. New single ‘DU$T’ catches the point where tenderness snaps into racket…
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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 Cardinals, Aphex Twin, ELIZA, George Riley + Jordan Rakei & Jalen Ngonda…
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🎧 Approved: Balderdasch
Experimental pop artist Balderdasch makes glitchy, lo-fi pop that leans into the dark and the messy. Her new single, ‘Stillness Gyrating’, conveys that subtle eye-twitch veneer of female rage. The drums have a new waveness, their weight dissolving into a poised, calm, while her voice taunts over it…
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🎧 Approved: Curtisy
Rapper Curtisy has grit in the mix, but he rounds it off with a loose, conversational delivery. His new single ‘Talk Of The Town’ throws him up against Lil Skag, a pairing that works because they occupy opposite ends of the same moodboard: Curtisy bright and brash, Skag deadpan and precise…
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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 Reek0, Paranoid London, Lifeguard, Frost Children + David Byrne…
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🎧 Approved: Ásgeir
Icelandic singer-songwriter Ásgeir sits somewhere between the clarity of modern Americana and the spectral quiet you’d expect from an artist raised among mountains and long winters. New single ‘Sugar Clouds’ stays true to that gentle expansiveness while tugging at something more unsettled…
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🎧 Approved: Man/Woman/Chainsaw
Formed by friends at age sixteen, Man/Woman/Chainsaw still carry that teenage electricity - not naive, but gloriously unfiltered. New single ‘Only Girl’ is an ardent, strings-laced love song that started as a grunge track and mutated into something big-hearted, boisterous and euphoric…
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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 Charli xcx, John Cale, ENNY, Celeste, Robyn + Leon Vynehal…
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🎧 Approved: BLACK FONDU
London-via-Accra artist BLACK FONDU collides hyperpop, noise, rap, punk and abstract grime into something that manages to sound pretty lawless but ultimately intuitive. With a neat Gwen Stefani throwback in the hook, new single ‘holla back girl’ rips up millennial pop tropes to forge something new…
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🎧 Approved: Eaves Wilder
Eaves Wilder mixes dream-pop, shoegaze and alt-rock with the sisterly energy of Wet Leg, CMAT and Wolf Alice - songs that feel alive and always on the brink of some sonic or emotional edge. New single ‘Everybody Talks’ started with a simple, maddening observation: at support sets, everybody talks…