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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…
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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 CMAT, Ray Laurél, Blood Orange, Geese and MPH…
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🎧 Approved: Clarice Jensen
On paper, a Juilliard-trained cellist opening for My Chemical Romance might look like a curveball. In reality, it makes perfect sense. Clarice Jensen’s new single, ‘Unity’, grows out of a symmetrical four-chord motif. It’s part tradition, part experiment and entirely her own language…
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🎧 Approved: Tebi Rex
After a decade of pulling Irish hip hop into stranger, sharper, funnier shapes, Irish alt-rap duo Tebi Rex are calling time. Two people met at a college talent show, made something that didn’t sound like anyone else around them and left a mark. ‘Fin.’ is the bow on top…
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🎧 Approved: Amie Blu
South East Londoner Amie Blu makes rich and raw folk rock, imbued with feeling. New single ‘bite’ sees Blu checking herself in real time, asking why we swallow down love instead of letting it spill out, and doing so with a voice that’s rich without being over-dressed…
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🎧 Approved: kissin' teef
kissin’ teef is the sonic expression of Kai Isaiah-Jamal, a South London creative whose world spans poetry, fashion and now music. Debut EP ‘impatiently waiting’ offers something slick yet deep-rooted; channeling early 2000s grime, rap and funky house, as a love letter to multicultural Britain…
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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 Radiohead, Everything Is Recorded, Sampha, Florence Welch and Danielle Ponder, to Jah Wobble, Leon Vynehall, TYSON, BXKS and John Glacier.…
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🎧 Approved: The Belair Lip Bombs
Australia’s The Belair Lip Bombs make self-coined “yearn-core”, a type of toe-tapping indie rock that sparks goosebumps. It’s jangly, euphoric and somehow breezy without ever feeling lightweight.…
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🎧 Approved: Winter
Winter has carved out her own lush, shoegazey corner of the indie scene; beautifully understated, fuzzy and wistful. New single ‘Hide-A-Lullaby’ drifts slow and gauzy through the subconscious with feather-light vocals, smouldering guitar and a quiet flirtation with heartbreak…
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CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases
Five fresh releases that cut through the noise last week, from Wolf Alice, Sasha Keable, Disclosure & Anderson .Paak, Ninajirachi and Deftones…