Feb 27, 2026 1 min read

CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases

Our selection of five releases that cut through the noise this week, from Angèle, Justice, Shelf Lives, Nanasenda, Underscores + Lime Garden

CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases

Angèle’s new single ‘What You Want’ featuring Justice

Born backstage at a Brussels Justice show, this track is the result of Angèle handing over a half-finished demo and getting back a banger. Her sensual bilingual vocals coiled over Justice's industrial French touch muscle is electrifying without being macho. If this is the opening move on that third album, 2026 is looking very good.

Shelf Lives new album ‘hypernormaL

London duo Sabrina and Jonny describe their debut as “what happens when you write music in a world that’s falling apart and everyone calls it content”, and ‘hypernormaL’ sounds exactly like that: scuzzy, self-aware and disturbingly danceable. 

Namasenda’s new single ‘Miami Crest’

A carnal, celestial and undeniably surround-sound Eurotrance number. The first taste of debut album ‘Limbo’ and it’s a statement.

Underscores’ new single ‘Tell Me (U Want It)’

The K-pop-stan-to-pop-auteur pipeline in full effect: ‘Tell Me (U Want It)’ is Underscores’ third single ahead of an unnamed album follow-up to ‘Wallsocket’, and it’s her most immediately fun track yet - playful, precise and packed with cameos (Jane Remover and Fraxiom both turn up in the video’s USB-heist caper). PinkPantheress fans, this one’s for you too.

Lime Garden’s new single ‘All Bad Parts’

Inspired by Richard Schwartz’s therapy guide ‘No Bad Parts’, Lime Garden have written their darkest song yet and disguised it as their bounciest; Chloe Howard calls it “the darkest time of my life channelled into a sarcastic pop song”. The album ‘Maybe Not Tonight’ is out 10 Apr and this is very good bait.

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