Sep 11, 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 Gilla Band, Working Men’s Club, Shygirl, Ezra Collective + Slayyyter

CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases

Gilla Band’s new single ‘Alogia’

Frontman Dara Kiely was diagnosed with schizophrenia while writing this track and titled it after one of the symptoms - poverty of speech. “I thought I could just walk off the old mental illness but alas!” Jittering and menacing, it descends into a brutal breakdown of repeating syllables.

Working Men’s Club’s new single ‘Devout’

First music since 2022, first release on Domino, Atticus Ross in the producer’s chair - throbbing, looming electronica with a harsh industrial edge that sits closer to New Order than NIN. 

Shygirl’s new single ‘Lucky[Hymn]’

Trip-hop atmosphere, vibrating guitars, Casey MQ on strings, this is the most vulnerable thing Shygirl has released since ‘Nymph’. “This was the song where I was like, I think I have an album”. New album ‘SWALLOW!’ is incoming!

Ezra Collective’s new album ‘Here Because of Hope’

Out today - three movements tracing black music from West Africa through the Caribbean to London, with Letitia Wright’s spoken word binding it together. Pa Salieu, Lila Iké, Leona Lewis. It asks why music born from pain sounds so joyful, and spends seventeen tracks answering.

Slayyyter’s new single ‘crank 2’

Even angrier than ‘CRANK’, which is saying something - industrial electroclash, self-directed black-and-white video, described as “an evil flip” of ‘WOR$T GIRL IN AMERICA’. Slayyyter’s not rebranding. She’s doubling down!

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