Dec 8, 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 Dove Ellis, Peaches, Boj, TOMORA + Confidence Man

CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases

Dove Ellis’s new album ‘Blizzard’

This record sees Dove Ellis step out of “mysterious support act” status and deliver something that feels lived-in rather than myth-built. It’s a beautifully carved-out debut from the Irish singer that leans into his gift for tender, slightly abstract ballads. 

Peaches’ new single ‘Fuck Your Face’

A second look at Peaches’ first album in over a decade, and on it she’s doing exactly what she does: a tight, pulsing track built around blunt pleasure-seeking. Direct, fast and very much aimed at the body.

Boj’s new album ‘Duplicity’ 

‘Duplicity’ has that Lagos-born ease and self-possession. It embodies the Alté palette, Alté (pronounced uhl-tay) being a Lagos-born, genre-fluid movement that blends Afrobeats, R&B and hip hop. Unlike mainstream Afrobeats, which often centers on high-energy dance rhythms, Alté is mellower and a little experimental.

The Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands and AURORA collaborative project TOMORA

The first single from TOMORA, the new project from Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands and Norwegian art-popstar AURORA, ‘RING THE ALARM’, is an acid-tinged dance-pop banger that thrums with hyperactive production and unhinged vocals.

Confidence Man’s surprise new EP ‘Active Scenes Vol One’

A surprise drop that plays like a care package for party people, folding new tracks, heavyweight remixes and a delirious Sweely rework into one packet. It’s club fuel with no nutritional value whatsoever - exactly as intended.

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