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🎧 Approved: Trophy Wife public
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🎧 Approved: Trophy Wife

Brooklyn-based indie rock trio Trophy Wife cut through the noise but never harshly, riding atop the fuzz like a thread of warmth through static. Wrapped in heavy riffs and fuzzed-out melodies, new single ‘So Hard’ is a negotiation with desire itself…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Azamiah public
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🎧 Approved: Azamiah

Glasgow-based alt-jazz quartet Azamiah craft music that feels like it’s breathing. Their latest release, ‘New Moon’, has that Cleo Sol-esque luminosity; harmonies float, the instruments breathe and silence becomes part of the melody…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Fitzroy Holt public
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🎧 Approved: Fitzroy Holt

Fitzroy Holt’s sound has blues in its bones, punk in its pulse and an unpredictability born from Black Country grit. Named after a Midlands saying for taking the long way round, new single ‘Around The Wrekin’ is a surge of stoner-rock riffs with punk momentum…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧Approved: BIG SPECIAL public
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🎧Approved: BIG SPECIAL

Walsall duo Big Special turn post-industrial malaise into something close to gospel, trading in thunderous drums, spoken-word sermons and a humour so black it practically glows. New single, ‘Plaintive Native’, lands somewhere between working-class blues and post-punk sermon…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: My First Time public
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🎧 Approved: My First Time

Formed at university, Bristol quartet My First Time channel the scrappy energy of early Blur, the wry storytelling of The Streets, and a splash of Charli XCX’s pop sleaze. New single ‘Sippy Cup’ crashes like a hurled pint glass…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Austra public
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🎧 Approved: Austra

Austra is the pop project of Canadian artist Katie Stelmanis, whose music lives between euphoria and unease, like a new-wave Kate Bush mid-transcendence. New single ‘Siren Song’ is trance-like and glimmering, with pulsing basslines and the bittersweet melancholy she does best…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Umut Adan public
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🎧 Approved: Umut Adan

Turkish singer-songwriter Umut Adan and his Italian band Zebânis have a sound they coin “danceable dissent”. New single ‘Bogotà’ is a hypnotic protest anthem, fusing Anatolian psych with the communal pulse of cumbia…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Glom public
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🎧 Approved: Glom

There’s no gloom in Glom, instead we get shimmering riffs, 90s-leaning alt-rock choruses and shoegaze haze, with the tight rhythms of late 80s post-punk. With ‘Mirror’ he’s written one of his most frank songs, yet it remains unashamedly melodic and uplifting…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Westerman public
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🎧 Approved: Westerman

Westerman, the project of Will Westerman, lives somewhere between folk and chamber pop; saint-like but playful in its textures. New single ‘About Leaving’ from upcoming album ‘A Jackal’s Wedding’ leans into all of that with a soft power…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Annabelle Chairlegs public
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🎧 Approved: Annabelle Chairlegs

Annabelle Chairlegs has a subtle noirish romanticism, classic and bluesy but with a touch of tongue-in-cheek sensibility that hints at the salt and grit beneath the sugar. New single, ‘Ice Cream On The Beach’, captures that mix of lusty, distracted, hair-twirling energy…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: sleepazoid public
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🎧 Approved: sleepazoid

Naarm-based sleepazoid have that scrappy post-punk drive but with the occasional softer breaks and shoegaze shimmer that lets you come up for air. Post-punk, shoegaze, alt-rock… call it what you want, but new single ‘NEW AGE’ is the sound of a band in full stride…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Domina public
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🎧 Approved: Domina

Drawing on the cool restraint of Lebanon Hanover and the hushed dreaminess of Beach House, Domina shape something affecting, yet in no hurry to reveal everything at once. New single ‘Snake’ - the final single ahead of a debut EP - is an understated gem…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
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