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🎧 Approved in 2025
Listen to every track we featured in CMU’s ‘Approved’ slot in 2025 in our Spotify playlist wrapping up all our featured tracks for the year…
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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 A$AP Rocky, BIG SPECIAL, Slim Soledad, Clementaum, ELIZA + Samm Henshaw…
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🎧 Approved: Sassy 009
Sassy 009 thrives in the in-between: a space where distorted vocals, grunge textures, shoegaze swells, 90s beatronica and gauzy hyperpop collide. On new single ‘Mirrors’, she links with Malaysian-Irish producer and singer yunè pinku for a reflective, downtempo shimmer…
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CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise last week, from Together For Palestine, Sasha Keable, Sean Trelford, Deca OTA + Sex Mask…
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🎧 Approved: PVA
PVA make music that feels bodily and obsessive. They tap into something potent - close to the shoddy, shady spirit of early Chicago house but sharpened into something visceral and contemporary.
New single ‘Send’ is a glimpse into their upcoming album’s core fixations: physicality and desire…
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🎧 Approved: Elmiene
British-Sudanese soul shape-shifter Elmiene’s real clincher is that voice - old-soul, amber-toned and reaching for something bigger: timelessness. His new single, ‘Cry Against The Wind’, is one of his most vulnerable works yet…
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CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise last week, from Dove Ellis, Peaches, Boj, TOMORA + Confidence Man…
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🎧 Approved: samxemma
samxemma build electronic pop that sounds like optimism trying to reboot itself. New single ‘Me forever :(‘ is another beautifully chaotic, maximalist blast from the duo with over bright, club-leaning synths and percussion that sounds like someone shaking the internet until a feeling falls out…
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🎧 Approved: Angel Du$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…