Kaya Robertson

Kaya Robertson

285 posts
🎧 Approved: Holy Wave public
CMU Approved 1 min read

🎧 Approved: Holy Wave

Four childhood friends from El Paso who moved to Austin after a life-altering My Bloody Valentine show in 2008, Holy Wave have spent the years since becoming one of the most satisfying underground psych-rock bands America has produced. New single ‘dewey’s dirge’ is gloriously disorientating…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson
🎧 Approved: Blumi public
CMU Approved 1 min read

🎧 Approved: Blumi

Emma Broughton left political sociology research to make music with the same precision. New single ‘Jaguar’ opens with a bass line that demands attention before exploding into a psychedelic chorus about choosing connection over solitude…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson
🎧 Approved: Sweeping Promises public
CMU Approved 1 min read

🎧 Approved: Sweeping Promises

Angular post-punk with a DIY spirit, Kansas’s Sweeping Promises bring decades of experience to new single ‘Cocoon’, originally written to pad out early shows, now reworked for third album ‘You Say I Romanticize’…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson
🎧 Approved: Monjola public
CMU Approved 1 min read

🎧 Approved: Monjola

Born in Lagos and raised in Dublin, Monjola moves between an effortless rap flow and smokey falsetto without making a thing of it. New single ‘Weight On Me’ is a good place to start. Understated and soulful, and - despite its vulnerability - it remains gorgeously uplifting…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson
🎧 Approved: Levina public
Levina 1 min read

🎧 Approved: Levina

London-based singer-songwriter Levina makes gorgeous and intimate, piano-led soul with folk and jazz running through it. New single ‘You Know Everything’ is a smoky, unhurried lament about returning to self-trust after emotional manipulation…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson
🎧 Approved: Charlotte Dos Santos public
CMU Approved 1 min read

🎧 Approved: Charlotte Dos Santos

You can tell Charlotte Dos Santos relishes following her own creative intuition, which is why she’s had comparisons to Solange. New single ‘Roses’ is a good place to start, richly textured lush, cinematic chamber soul, with a slightly psychedelic-jazz arrangement…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson
🎧 Approved: Girls In Hawaii public
CMU Approved 1 min read

🎧 Approved: Girls In Hawaii

Despite their name, Girls In Hawaii are neither from Hawaii nor girls; they’re two pairs of brothers from Belgium who make very good melancholic and slightly unsettling indie pop/rock. New single ‘Eldorado’ is no exception…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson
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