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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 Queens Of The Stone Age, thredd, Cobrah, Grimes, Megan Thee Stallion + Sofia and the Antoinettes…
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🎧 Approved: Big Softy
East London duo Big Softy make maximalist club music with a love of hardcore and metal. New single ‘Troubleshooting’ is two explosive minutes of heavy dance and PC Music-style pop, and the malfunction in question is human. Debut EP ‘Soft Tissue’ is out 4 Nov…
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🎧 Approved: chlothegod
North Carolina-born singer-songwriter chlothegod can’t stay in one genre for long: soul, alt-R&B, guitar pop and punk all turn up. New single ‘B Polite!’ starts quiet and wonky, then builds until she’s declaring “I don’t wanna be polite”. It would be rude not to listen…
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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 Lambrini Girls, Skepta, Bassvictim, Panchiko + Fine…
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🎧 Approved: Internet Girl
Cape Town trio Internet Girl are a new kind of boy band - alt-rap with smatterings of hyperpop, punk and indie sleaze. New single ‘HIGH AS HEAVEN’ sounds like it samples Klaxons’ ‘It’s Not Over Yet’ before building into a rowdy, distorted rush. Debut album ‘YES’ is out in November…
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🎧 Approved: Rayland Baxter
Son of Bob Dylan’s pedal steel player, Tennessee’s Rayland Baxter makes dusty, unhurried alt-country. New single ‘Up And Down A Mountain’ is glorious - toe-tapping and loose - about the chaos of falling in and out of love. New album ‘True Violet’ is also out this Friday…
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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 The Drums and Genesis Owusu, bed, Shygirk, Fontaines D.C. + Snoh Aalegra…
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🎧 Approved: Radie Peat
Radie Peat of Lankum releases her debut solo album in November, fifteen years in the making. Opening single ‘Hares On The Mountain’ is a beautifully wry and subversive folk song. If The Stranglers had been a folk outfit, this is how they might have done it…
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🎧 Approved: Ex:Re
Elena Tonra’s solo project Ex:Re returns with ‘Sleep’ - demoed alone in a Paris hotel room, acoustic guitar run through a vocoder, late-night and muffled. Second album ‘Save As’ is out 30 Oct. The in-store shows are already sold out…
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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 Tooth, untitled (halo), Basht, Slayyyter + strongboi…
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🎧 Approved: Sylvie
LA-based Ben Schwab started Sylvie after finding a box of his father’s 1970s band tapes. Country folk-rock with a soft-focus amber glow, new single ‘Not Looking Back Anymore’ glows with early Bonnie Raitt tenderness. A debut album is out 6 Nov…
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🎧 Approved: Clinic
Liverpool duo Clinic have been making genuinely strange art-punk since the late 90s - surgical masks, acidic vocals, jumble sale organs, a Grammy nomination. Tenth album ‘Wild In The Streets’ is out 30 Oct. New single ‘Energies’ is the closest they’ve ever come to the dancefloor…