Jun 12, 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 Rose Gray, Makeshift Art Bar, Slow Pulp, Interpol + Olivia Rodrigo

CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases

Rose Gray’s new single ‘Club To You Arms’

A euphoric ‘sound of the summer’ contender - that high note in the bridge! Club-pop perfection.

Makeshift Art Bar’s new single ‘Discipline’

One of Belfast’s gloriously unhinged exports, folding post-punk into sludge metal with total conviction. The track’s about propaganda and the military-industrial complex, with a video of a Harry Styles tribute act losing his mind in Benidorm.

Slow Pulp’s new single ‘Better Man’

Shoegaze by way of 80s pop. It’s Slow Pulp’s most anthemic track yet and the first taste of ‘Melodie’, out in September.

Interpol’s new single ‘See Out Loud’

Daniel Kessler on lead vocals for the first time since ‘PDA’ in 2002 - wiry, propulsive, that guitar tone nobody’s managed to rip off properly in 25 years.

Olivia Rodrigo’s new album ‘You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love’

80s new wave throwbacks, unmissable Cure influence and Rodrigo’s most scattered record so far, in a way that suggests she’s just getting started.

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