Jul 7, 2025 1 min read

CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases

New music from Ethel Cain, Nilüfer Yanya, Kesha, TeeZandos and nabeel. Five standout releases that stood out to us over the last week

CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases

Ethel Cain’s new single ‘Fuck Me Eyes’

Beautiful and bruised. This one’s a slow-build stunner - layered synths, soft shoegaze textures and that bittersweet ache Ethel Cain does so well. It’s a quiet ode to envy and reputation, inspired by small-town girlhood and those girls who seem to have everything… and somehow carry it all like a curse.

Nilüfer Yanya new EP ‘Dancing Shoes’

All four tracks are gorgeous - possibly the Sade of indie. The standout track, ‘Kneel’, is a siren song: a hypnotic weave of jangly guitars and ethereal synths. Tambourine and dampened snare keep time beneath driving bass and guitar, with strings moving together in a woozy, irresistible sway.

Kesha’s new album '. (PERIOD)'

Released on America’s Independence Day, this is Kesha’s most genuinely liberated, fun and fiery body of work to date.

From the deranged accordion of lead single ‘Joy Ride’ to the disco of ‘Freedom’ and the self-worshipping closer ‘Cathedral’, ‘PERIOD’ is a bold comeback after years of legal battles. Her first release under Kesha Records, this is her ultimate “fuck-you” album; rambunctious, reflective and finally free.

nabeel - نبيل’s new single ‘resala - رسالة’

A track of crushing gravity and catharsis, steeped in the shoegaze and slowcore that shaped frontman Yasir Razak’s youth in Richmond, Virginia. Sung in Arabic, ‘resala’ aches with yearning for lives not lived. 

A powerful preview of upcoming EP ‘ghayoom (غيوم)’.

TeeZandos’ new single ‘Jail’

TeeZandos makes it all look easy. Her flow is razor-sharp, her delivery full of bite - ‘Jail’ is bold, bouncing with confidence, and laced with charisma. She leans into her femininity without softening a single edge, holding her own with a slickness that’s hard to deny.

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