We've reached the end of another year, and the CMU Approved column is taking its festive break. Actually, the column had a couple of breaks this year for various reasons. We still managed to find and write about a whole load of incredible new artists across a broad range of genres though.
Right now, what I imagine you want to do is catch up with every single artist we covered, just to double check you haven't overlooked any absolute gems. And if you're not already listening to all of these artists on repeat already, then you absolutely should. Luckily for you, we're here to help out with a playlist featuring all of them. That's nice of us, huh?
Come back in the new year for yet more great new music, but for now you can listen to the full playlist on Spotify here, and scroll down to link through to the original article on each artist featured.
Full tracklist (plus links to our articles on them) here:
Quinquis - Adkrog
Speed Training - High Treason
Lvra - In Your Blood
Ferla - Nothing Else Matters
Suep - Misery
Sywel Nyw - Seagal
Yoasobi - Into The Night
Debby Friday - Focus
GRLS - Dystopia
Meyy - Do It (feat Joanna)
Mothermary - Coming For You
Caleb Kunle - Could Be Good
Anjimile - Stranger
Danielle Lewis - Slow, Sad And Real
Ätna - Smile
Mhaol - Gender Studies
Los Bitchos - Las Panteras
Leak - Wall
Psykhi - See Me Clearly
BXKS - Mean Amount
Mrley - So Much To Say
Kurtis Wells - Abyss
Cumgirl8 - I Wanna Be
Hamish Hawk - The Mauritian Badminton Doubles Champion, 1973
Nation Of Language - This Fractured Mind
Pyra - Paper Promises
Rachika Nayar - August 31st
Foxlee - Heart Attack
Indigo De Souza - Hold U
July Jones - Butterflies (feat Girli & Suzi Wu)
Shn Shn - Maladaptive Daydreams
Lenny - Taurus Sun
Allison Pointer - Hell Is A Crowded Room
H33ra - Mami
JWestern - Active Guy
English Teacher - Wallace
Denise Chaila - 061
Wet Leg - Chaise Longue
Julia-Sophie - CCTV
Hélène Vogelsinger - Reminiscence
Loud Numbers - The Natural Lottery
Blood Cultures - Cabin Fever Freestyle
Sun - Golden
Reb Fountain - Heart
Sinead O’Brien - Kid Stuff
Someone - Strange World
Joviale - Blow!
Jinjé - Cinetique
Feral - Cherry Bomb
Meet Me @ The Altar - Hit Like A Girl
Charmaine - Woo!
Scotch Rolex & Lord Spikeheart - Success
Pauli The PSM - I Got The Beat
Alewya & Moses Boyd - The Code
Naoko Sakata - Improvisation3