Sep 22, 2025 1 min read

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

CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases

Niko B’s new single ‘Beginners Luck’, produced by Evilgiane

Evilgiane hands Niko something foggy and skeletal - half-80s minimal wave, half-lo-fi trap. Niko keeps it breezy, tossing out bars with that familiar offhand charm, but there’s more bite in the delivery than before. A small shift in sound, and one that feels like it could lead somewhere.

Cardinals’ new single Masquerade

Cardinals drag the brittle honesty of folk into the theatrics of goth-rock. Accordion sneaks between it all, giving the whole thing a lilt that’s equal parts REM and Irish trad.

Miley Cyrus’s new single ‘Secrets’, featuring Lindsey Buckingham and Mick Fleetwood

Two Fleetwood Mac veterans join Cyrus for a song she calls a peace offering to her dad. The guitar shimmer and rhythm are instantly recognisable, but she resists the urge to belt and instead lets the lyrics speak. A ballad about honesty, carried by voices across generations.

they are gutting a body of water’s new single ‘rl stine’

Philadelphia’s TAGABOW bury everything in fuzz and feedback, but the core is painfully human. Written after a fleeting encounter with a man battling addiction, it carries compassion through the static. One more reason their new album ‘Lotto’ is shaping up to be a noise record with heart.

Collect 200’s new single ‘She Waits’

Sounds like a deeply danceable voicenote from a friend. You know the ones that amble on, half-confessional, half-observational, but somehow comforting if you treat it like a podcast and get on with something while listening. Makes you wish all your conversations had a Collect 200 rhythm behind them.

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