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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…
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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 Acopia, Slayyyter, Dove Ellis, JADE and George Riley.…
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🎧 Approved: Genesis Owusu
Genesis Owusu debut album ‘Smiling With No Teeth’ was a transcendent blueprint for modern hip hop; a fearless exploration of identity, experimenting with funk, punk and rap. On new single ‘PIRATE RADIO’ he once again refuses to assimilate and redraws the boundaries of his own sound…
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🎧 Approved: Max Baby
A self-taught multi-instrumentalist with synaesthesia guiding his ear, Paris-born polymath Max Baby has a sound that is both shadowy and luminous, defiantly singular. New single ‘Feet’ finds him leaning into obsession and surrender, that messy zone where pain and pleasure overlap…
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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 Kneecap and Paul Hartnoll, Big Thief, Celeste, Tame Impala and NewDad…
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🎧 Approved: Milo Korbenski
Imagine a flickering arcade in Brighton at 2am: music seeps from the speakers, boxy torn-cone distortion and octave-dropped vocals coalescing with synths. That’s Milo Korbenski, a figure as enigmatic as his sound. New single ‘Bedrock’ shifts the pace into indie slacker-ballad territory…
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🎧 Approved: Déyyess
Déyyess makes “sparkley grunge”, a sound that blends sapphic tenderness with 90s-indebted shoegaze shimmer. New single ‘She Knows’ is all quiet radiance and anxious crush energy, channelling the crystalline melancholy of The Sundays, while nodding to contemporary queer icons like Chappell Roan…