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🎧 Approved: Joseph Terrell
Joseph Terrell isn’t your typical strummy folk protagonist, he’s proof that American folk music still has teeth, and that sometimes the smile comes before the bite…
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🎧 Approved: ugly ozo
Isle of Wight trio ugly ozo dwell in a languid space between grungey bedroom pop and doom-gaze. New single ‘hi, how are you?’ was written during a stretch of burnout and emotional numbness, and it carries that weight…
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🎧 Approved: Namasenda
Swedish pop visionary Namasenda is in her own Eurobeat-tinged, angelic pop world. New single ‘Cola’ is a glossy, digi-soaked rush of avant-pop, pairing accelerated guitar arpeggios with elastic rhythms and a tectonic low end for a sleek, hypnotic, all-around bop…
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🎧 Approved: GUV
GUV grew up moving between Toronto and England and carries a very real strain of UK lineage that separates him from other hardcore kids sporting bowl cuts. New single ‘Blue Jade’ leans hard into punchy shoegaze, smearing hummable melodies beneath a thick gloss of distortion and texture…
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🎧 Approved: tofusmell
Tofusmell, the project of Winnipeg musician Rae Chen, carries echoes of 90s indie folk, Elliott Smith, early Sufjan Stevens, but Chen isn’t chasing their shadows. New single ‘(Me Tomorrow)’ gently stretches their framework. It’s unassuming, almost lulling, until the final moments…
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🎧 Approved: Odd Beholder
Odd Beholder is the project of Swiss artist Daniela Weinmann, who makes electro wave and dreamily dark indie pop that documents the oddities and quiet failures of contemporary life. New single ‘Like A Chore’ emerged from a specific moment she witnessed while working as a teacher to finance her music…
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🎧 Approved: Rusty Santos
Rusty Santos pulls from psych folk, outsider pop and spiritual songwriting, but never in a way that feels archival. His music sits slightly askew, shaped by unusual tunings, soft dissonance and a sense of curiosity about sound itself. New single ‘Are You A Portal’ leans into that suspended feeling…
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🎧 Approved in 2025
Listen to every track we featured in CMU’s ‘Approved’ slot in 2025 in our Spotify playlist wrapping up all our featured tracks for the year…
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🎧 Approved: Sassy 009
Sassy 009 thrives in the in-between: a space where distorted vocals, grunge textures, shoegaze swells, 90s beatronica and gauzy hyperpop collide. On new single ‘Mirrors’, she links with Malaysian-Irish producer and singer yunè pinku for a reflective, downtempo shimmer…
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🎧 Approved: PVA
PVA make music that feels bodily and obsessive. They tap into something potent - close to the shoddy, shady spirit of early Chicago house but sharpened into something visceral and contemporary.
New single ‘Send’ is a glimpse into their upcoming album’s core fixations: physicality and desire…
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🎧 Approved: Elmiene
British-Sudanese soul shape-shifter Elmiene’s real clincher is that voice - old-soul, amber-toned and reaching for something bigger: timelessness. His new single, ‘Cry Against The Wind’, is one of his most vulnerable works yet…
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🎧 Approved: samxemma
samxemma build electronic pop that sounds like optimism trying to reboot itself. New single ‘Me forever :(‘ is another beautifully chaotic, maximalist blast from the duo with over bright, club-leaning synths and percussion that sounds like someone shaking the internet until a feeling falls out…