Apr 28, 2025 1 min read

CMU Selects - the last fortnight’s standout releases

From WARGASM’s hostile hyperactivity to Chaos In The CBD’s smooth dive into G-fun, here’s what stood out among the last fortnight’s latest releases.

CMU Selects - the last fortnight’s standout releases

Chaos In The CBD’s new single ‘Maintaining My Peace’, featuring Novelist & Stephanie Cooke

Chaos In The CBD ease into G-funk territory here and it suits them. 

Billie Marten’s new single Leap Year

With this track built from an app on her phone, Billie Marten still manages to pair her gentle understated vocals with a more widescreen, cinematically-driven sound. It’s a record that appears to be quietly pushing at the edges of Marten’s folk roots.

Kali Uchis’ new single ‘ILYSMIH’

Written in the aftermath of welcoming her first child, ‘ILYSMIH’ trades grandeur for tenderness, closing her ‘Sincerely’ album with stripped-back production that holds palpable sentimentality. 

Ugly’s new single ‘Next To Die’

Ugly’s first release of the year, every cooed backing vocal and jangled guitar strum feels built to hit just as much live as it does on record.

Lorde’s new single ‘What Was That’

A restless, late-night pop song from Lorde, co-written with Jim-E Stack and Daniel Nigro, ‘What Was That’ picks over the debris of a messy year with something approaching optimism.

WARGASM’s new single ‘Vigiliante’ 

Equal measures hyper and hostile, ‘Vigilante’ is a potent mix of brash pop, electronic glitch and the confrontation of punk.

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