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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 ROSALÍA, Getdown Service, JT, Kings Of Leon + Charlotte Day Wilson…
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Bob Vylan didn’t break Dutch law say prosecutors after September live show controversy
35 individuals and organisations filed complaints with the Dutch Public Prosecution Service after a Bob Vylan gig in Amsterdam in September. But prosecutors have concluded that, while statements made on-stage by the band were “provocative and harsh”, they didn’t breach Dutch anti-discrimination laws…
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🎧 Approved: Amanda Bergman
Part-time regenerative farmer, part-time songwriter, Amanda Bergman makes music with the same patient, restorative quality that guides her offstage life. Recorded almost entirely live at the legendary ABBA studio, new single ‘Grasp’ is a song of soft electronics and muted magnificence…
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🎧 Approved: Ethel
Parisian songstress Ethel has a way of making music feel physical. New single ‘Sorted’, produced with longtime collaborator Banshee The Great, sounds both handmade and a little cosmic. Synths blink in and out like city lights, a bassline hums low to the ground, and Ethel’s voice dances atop…
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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 ROSALÍA’s, Björk, Yves Tumor, Swank Mami, EsDeeKid, Florence + the Machine, Chy Cartier + Lil Yachty…
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🎧 Approved: The Orielles
Manchester-based trio The Orielles hover between pop-rock instinct and art-school experimentation: organs hum, guitars shimmer, rhythms loop until they almost dissolve. New single ‘Three Halves’ is built from droning organs, cello and guitar; dense one moment, airy the next…
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🎧 Approved: Trophy Wife
Brooklyn-based indie rock trio Trophy Wife cut through the noise but never harshly, riding atop the fuzz like a thread of warmth through static. Wrapped in heavy riffs and fuzzed-out melodies, new single ‘So Hard’ is a negotiation with desire itself…
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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…