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CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
From Blood Orange and Mac DeMarco’s gentle returns to a club-wrecker from Skepta and Fred again.., here are the releases that stood out to us last week.…
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🎧 Approved: For Nina
For Nina aren’t in the business of big statements. Not yet, anyway. But their new single ‘Swallow’ (released today) doesn’t ask for your attention so much as quietly consume it. Think Slowdive, but with an Irish lilt…
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🎧 Approved: Shreea Kaul
Shreea Kaul slips past easy genre lines, sitting in the space between late-night honesty and sharp-eyed control. It's soft-edged R&B that doesn’t mind getting a little weird. New single ‘Crooked Salesman’ starts out hazy and alluring, then shifts under your feet…
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CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Five fresh tracks from last week: Lorde’s euphoric ‘Hammer’, SOPHIE’s fizzy ‘OOH’, Westside Cowboy’s punk ride, dexter in the newsagent’s intimate lo-fi ‘special’, and The Bloody Beetroots with Tokky Horror’s tense and twitchy ‘NUMB’…
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🎧 Approved: Cardinals
Cork five-piece Cardinals channel a monochrome, windswept kind of nostalgia - equal parts shoegaze, Irish trad, and shadowy rock and roll romanticism. New single ‘Big Empty Heart’ is a gothic patchwork of shanty-leaning balladry and poetry-drenched punk…
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🎧 Approved: Greta Isaac
Welsh-born, London-based Greta Isaac is a surreal, sugar-rushed blast of alt-pop. New single ‘Soft Scoop Talking Do’ introduces Dolly: Greta’s chaotic, art-pop alter ego who appars through a vape haze with a wink. It’s weird, wired and irresistibly fun…
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CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
From dj gummy bear’s lo-fi gospel to King Gizzard’s sprawling orchestral journey and beyond. Here’s what caught our ear last week…
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🎧 Approved: Joviale
London-based artist Joviale crafts portal-like songs; chaptered, strangely sweet selves. New single ‘HARK!’, from debut album ‘Mount Crystal’, is a sinister funk centrepiece: swaggering vocals over rubbery bass, angular strums and unruly beats…
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🎧 Approved: Ain’t
Pulling from post-punk, shoegaze and 90s indie, South London’s Ain’t map out a sound that’s tense, slightly off-centre, but always measured. On new single ‘Jude’, guitars blur into texture, vocals drift in and out of focus, and atmosphere quietly takes the lead over melody…
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CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
From Addison Rae’s high-gloss reinvention to sharp returns from Wunderhorse, Nilüfer Yanya and more. Here’s what stood out this week.…
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🎧 Approved: SCALER
Brutalist and bruising, SCALER’s sound feels traditionally Bristolian with its immense low-end pressure tempered by subdued spatial stretches that drift and sprawl. New single ‘Salt’, featuring Akiko Haruna, pushes that even further; every bit as focused and feral as you’d hope…
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🎧 Approved: Drumfish
Johannesburg’s Drumfish emerged in September 2020 into a local scene still reeling from pandemic-induced silence. Their sound is a mean churn of garage scuzz. It’s jagged, fuzzy and feral in all the right places, capturing a band still very much on the edge, but now with teeth bared…