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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 Ray Laurél, Labrinth, Ruthven, Kelly Lee Owens + The Belair Lip Bombs…
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🎧 Approved: Austra
Austra is the pop project of Canadian artist Katie Stelmanis, whose music lives between euphoria and unease, like a new-wave Kate Bush mid-transcendence. New single ‘Siren Song’ is trance-like and glimmering, with pulsing basslines and the bittersweet melancholy she does best…
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🎧 Approved: Umut Adan
Turkish singer-songwriter Umut Adan and his Italian band Zebânis have a sound they coin “danceable dissent”. New single ‘Bogotà’ is a hypnotic protest anthem, fusing Anatolian psych with the communal pulse of cumbia…
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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 Saint Ludo and Kasst 8, Snõõper, Danny L Harle and Caroline Polachek, Ms* Gloom + Fred Again.. & Amyl And The Sniffers…
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🎧 Approved: Glom
There’s no gloom in Glom, instead we get shimmering riffs, 90s-leaning alt-rock choruses and shoegaze haze, with the tight rhythms of late 80s post-punk. With ‘Mirror’ he’s written one of his most frank songs, yet it remains unashamedly melodic and uplifting…
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🎧 Approved: Westerman
Westerman, the project of Will Westerman, lives somewhere between folk and chamber pop; saint-like but playful in its textures. New single ‘About Leaving’ from upcoming album ‘A Jackal’s Wedding’ leans into all of that with a soft power…
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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 Florence + The Machine, Bricknasty and F3Miii, Magdalena Bay, Witch Fever + Geese…
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🎧 Approved: Annabelle Chairlegs
Annabelle Chairlegs has a subtle noirish romanticism, classic and bluesy but with a touch of tongue-in-cheek sensibility that hints at the salt and grit beneath the sugar. New single, ‘Ice Cream On The Beach’, captures that mix of lusty, distracted, hair-twirling energy…
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🎧 Approved: sleepazoid
Naarm-based sleepazoid have that scrappy post-punk drive but with the occasional softer breaks and shoegaze shimmer that lets you come up for air. Post-punk, shoegaze, alt-rock… call it what you want, but new single ‘NEW AGE’ is the sound of a band in full stride…
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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 Niko B and Evilgiane, Cardinals, Miley Cyrus with Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood, they are gutting a body of water + Collect 200…
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🎧 Approved: Domina
Drawing on the cool restraint of Lebanon Hanover and the hushed dreaminess of Beach House, Domina shape something affecting, yet in no hurry to reveal everything at once. New single ‘Snake’ - the final single ahead of a debut EP - is an understated gem…
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🎧 Approved: corto.alto
Led by trombonist, producer and sonic experimenter Liam Shortall, corto.alto has been steadily pulling jazz into new territories. New single ‘VANDAL’ opens with punchy live brass and percussion before bleeding into textures that belong more to Berlin’s club culture than a jazz conservatoire…