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🎧 Approved: Alewya public
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🎧 Approved: Alewya

Raised in West London with Ethiopian and Egyptian roots, alt-soul hyphenate Alewya treats heritage as something active rather than archival. She doesn’t move like a conventional artist, describing herself as a painter who makes music, which makes sense when you sit with her songs…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Shock Corridor public
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🎧 Approved: Shock Corridor

Shock Corridor’s songs don't so much arrive as accumulate, stretched and shaped through live performance until they’ve got a kind of bone-density to them. New track ‘Buster’ is beautifully atmospheric, though not in any passive sense. It recalls the tense, watchful mood of ‘A Forest’ by The Cure…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: X & Ivy public
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🎧 Approved: X & Ivy

X & Ivy have built up a reputation as reliable party chefs, cooking up early Chicago house and Detroit techno with a sprinkle of breakbeat and acid textures of 90s UK rave. New EP ‘Broken Jam’, is the sound of two producers who know exactly what they’re doing and aren’t wasting anyone’s time…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Phoenix James public
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🎧 Approved: Phoenix James

Phoenix James is Alabama-born, Miami-raised and New York-based, with a journey so distinct, it’s only natural that her alt-R&B sound would parallel. New single ‘Hold On’ is elastic and deliberate - a warped, rubbery bassline and James’ voice low-slung, intimate and thick with implication…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: MLEKO public
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🎧 Approved: MLEKO

MLEKO have coined ‘gub rock’, which, like all good made-up genres, is more of a shrug than a statement: “It’s been termed post-punk, art rock, post-rock, alt rock, prog rock, to the point where we are just as lost as everyone else”. New single ‘Tom’s Tune’ continues this genre-defying momentum…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Bloodworm public
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🎧 Approved: Bloodworm

Bloodworm deal in brooding post-punk awash with dominant, driving basslines, heavily modulated echoing guitars and morose vocals that nod firmly to the eighties - but with an energy rooted firmly in the now. Their new single lurks further into the shadows still, delivering the most gothic take yet…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Olympia Vitalis public
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🎧 Approved: Olympia Vitalis

Olympia Vitalis cites Aretha Franklin in the same breath as Nas, and somehow, listening to her, that makes sense. New single ‘Daze’ brims with soul, it’s got that deep, almost painful level of musicality that bridges the gap between gospel intensity and rhythmic, secular funk and blues…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Tungz public
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🎧 Approved: Tungz

The 80s polyphony, the slightly unhinged energy: it’s a combination not many pull off without tipping into pastiche, but Tungz don’t tip. Their new single is about not being able to pay attention, which makes sense given that it gets you dancing before you’ve clocked you’re doing it…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Corella public
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🎧 Approved: Corella

Manchester's Corella are the kind of band you discover at a festival and immediately tell someone about. New single ‘Rewire’, produced by Jason Perry, is their heaviest move yet. Soaring riffs, pounding drums, and a no-nonsense vocal performance from Joel Smith, make it a blistering listen…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Lay Llamas public
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🎧 Approved: Lay Llamas

Founded in 2012 by Sicilian composer and musicologist Nicola Giunta, Lay Lamas shifts shape constantly, collaborators in, collaborators out, but always orbiting the same psychedelic and slightly ritualistic core. New single ‘Mystical Journey’ is heady and lilting, all psych rock transcendence…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Kerala Dust public
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🎧 Approved: Kerala Dust

Kerela Dust’s sound is able to exist in a liminal space: loose-limbed synths, stretched transitions, but with that undeniable nocturnal mood that is fit for the club but still able to comfort in the comedown hours. However, unlike the others, new single ‘WHITE NOISE’ has no interest in slowing down…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Cinema Stereo public
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🎧 Approved: Cinema Stereo

Nashville’s Cinema Stereo deal in widescreen rock that feels rooted rather than retro - big melodic instincts, 70s barnets, songs built to carry. New single 'So Sorry, My Dear' is all driving and open-hearted, complete with guitar solos built for being played on their knees…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
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