Sep 25, 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 Adult DVD, Ray Laurél, Queens of The Stone Age, Tinashe + Perfume Genius

CMU Selects - the last week’s standout releases

Adult DVD’s self titled new album

Guitars first and then it mutates - acid-house, breakbeats, techno. Twelve tracks of DFA-indebted dance-punk populated by absurdist characters: a right-wing hermit, a guy with FOMO from his own funeral, a supermarket cowboy.

Ray Laurél’s new single ‘Didn't She Love You’

It’s almost as if Prince is alive and well - that sublime falsetto wrapped around hyper-clean funk and something devotional.

Queens Of The Stone Age’s new single ‘Where The Goth Girls At?’

Nostalgic and saucy - strings, horns, Homme reminiscing about Palm Desert teenagers in JCPenney giving goth makeovers to the old ladies.

Tinashe’s new album ‘Popstar’ 

Hyperpop, deep house, acid-house, west coast bounce, funk-laced guitars - deliberately dense and expertly produced. No features, no pastiche. 

Perfume Genius’s new single ‘Natural High’

Six minutes that open as eerie ghost-folk and slowly dissolve into dank club music - written for The Lesson, a dance collaboration with Kate Wallich inspired by ‘The Piano Teacher’. 

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