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Kaya Robertson

Kaya Robertson

262 posts •
🎧 Approved: Finn Askew public
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🎧 Approved: Finn Askew

Finn Askew doesn’t sound like a Bieber knockoff, he just happens to be fishing in the same water, and pulling out something of his own. ‘BLUEBOY’, his new six track mixtape, is lush slow jams done right, built on minimalist trap drums and close-mic vocals…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Kat Duma public
CMU Approved • 1 min read

🎧 Approved: Kat Duma

Kat Duma crafts sound with dubby rhythms, ethereal pop textures, and moments that shimmer with recognition before slipping away again. New single 'Mirrored Water' has a quietly Madonna-esque quality, a bit like 'Frozen', but pulled somewhere a little more whimsical…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Widowspeak public
CMU Approved • 1 min read

🎧 Approved: Widowspeak

NYC duo Widowspeak deal in a kind of effortless Americana alchemy, dream pop, a little Stones, a little Petty, open and languid ballads with the twang of a Lynchian roadhouse band. New single ‘No Driver’ is a lush, widescreen pop gem, unhurried and wide-open…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Modern Woman public
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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…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Alewya public
CMU Approved • 1 min read

🎧 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…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Shock Corridor public
CMU Approved • 1 min read

🎧 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…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: X & Ivy public
CMU Approved • 1 min read

🎧 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…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Phoenix James public
CMU Approved • 1 min read

🎧 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…
Kaya Robertson
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