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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…
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🎧 Approved: Phoenix James
Phoenix James is Alabama-born, Miami-raised and New York-based, with a journey so distinct, it’s only natural that her alt-R&B sound would parallel. New single ‘Hold On’ is elastic and deliberate - a warped, rubbery bassline and James’ voice low-slung, intimate and thick with implication…
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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 Kelsey Lu, Ed O’Brien, MRCY, Yazmin Lacey, Lime Garden + CLT DRP…
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🎧 Approved: MLEKO
MLEKO have coined ‘gub rock’, which, like all good made-up genres, is more of a shrug than a statement: “It’s been termed post-punk, art rock, post-rock, alt rock, prog rock, to the point where we are just as lost as everyone else”. New single ‘Tom’s Tune’ continues this genre-defying momentum…
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🎧 Approved: Bloodworm
Bloodworm deal in brooding post-punk awash with dominant, driving basslines, heavily modulated echoing guitars and morose vocals that nod firmly to the eighties - but with an energy rooted firmly in the now. Their new single lurks further into the shadows still, delivering the most gothic take yet…
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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 James Blake, Violet Grohl, Claudia Valentine, beabadoobee, The Marías and Kim Gordon…