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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 Helena Gao, Charli xcx, Olivia Rodrigo, Hyd + Joy (Anonymous)…
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🎧 Approved: PS Hitsquad
Peckham’s PS Hitsquad is easily positioning himself alongside the pulsing vanguard of UK rap’s emerging underground talent. Paving the way for what PS brands as “post-drill”, new single ‘Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda’ is full of synths, footwork-esque drums, hazy nostalgia and melodic layers…
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🎧 Approved: Balming Tiger
Balming Tiger are penned as “alternative K-pop”, which tells you something but not nearly enough. New album ‘Gongbu’ is fourteen tracks of psychedelic sounds layered over Korean and East Asian musical textures, dreamlike and nostalgic and faintly hallucinatory…
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🎧 Approved: youbet
Brooklyn duo youbet flirt with shoegaze without fully committing to it, and the result is something genuinely hard to place and easy to love. “It’s like we’re running a family business”, vocalist Nick Llobet says of the duo, which sounds like a joke until you hear how tightly they fit together…
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🎧 Approved: Pigeon
Margate five-piece Pigeon make music that sprawls and mutates. Afro-disco, krautrock, punk-funk, post-punk: all of it is in there, somehow, but it never feels like genre tourism. It just feels alive. New album ‘OUTTANATIONAL’ is sublime…
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🎧Approved: Basht.
Basht. make no-nonsense indie rock that knows exactly where it comes from: careening guitars, DIY zeal, punk and grunge worn openly on the sleeve. It’s a crowded space, but Basht. have something that sets them apart, a restraint that makes the moments they let go hit harder…
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🎧 Approved: Alex Amor
Alex Amor makes the kind of music that washes in like the tide, gauzy, slow-burning alt-pop built from clouds of keyboards, heavily treated guitars and multitracked vocals that blur together into something that sounds, on first listen, like one beautiful wash of sound…
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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 Madonna, Sofie Royer, Bleech 9:3, Nick León, Namasenda + Alewya…
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🎧 Approved: WIDGET
WIDGET make Hannah Montana-referencing, discofied dance rock, which sounds better than it reads, trust me. New single ‘WHAT IF PHONES BUT TOO MUCH’ is an arpeggiated bop about smashing glass ceilings and imagining everyone’s face replaced with Danny Dyer’s…
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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…
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🎧 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…
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🎧 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…