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CMU Approved
🎧 Approved: Rusty Santos public
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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…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Sassy 009 public
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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…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: PVA public
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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…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Elmiene public
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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…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: samxemma public
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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…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Angel Du$t public
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🎧 Approved: Angel Du$t

Baltimore’s Angel Du$t have done the awkward, interesting work of turning hardcore’s blunt force into something porous and strange - they’re loud, messy and stubbornly generous. New single ‘DU$T’ catches the point where tenderness snaps into racket…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Balderdasch public
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🎧 Approved: Balderdasch

Experimental pop artist Balderdasch makes glitchy, lo-fi pop that leans into the dark and the messy. Her new single, ‘Stillness Gyrating’, conveys that subtle eye-twitch veneer of female rage. The drums have a new waveness, their weight dissolving into a poised, calm, while her voice taunts over it…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Curtisy public
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🎧 Approved: Curtisy

Rapper Curtisy has grit in the mix, but he rounds it off with a loose, conversational delivery. His new single ‘Talk Of The Town’ throws him up against Lil Skag, a pairing that works because they occupy opposite ends of the same moodboard: Curtisy bright and brash, Skag deadpan and precise…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Ásgeir public
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🎧 Approved: Ásgeir

Icelandic singer-songwriter Ásgeir sits somewhere between the clarity of modern Americana and the spectral quiet you’d expect from an artist raised among mountains and long winters. New single ‘Sugar Clouds’ stays true to that gentle expansiveness while tugging at something more unsettled…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Man/Woman/Chainsaw public
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🎧 Approved: Man/Woman/Chainsaw

Formed by friends at age sixteen, Man/Woman/Chainsaw still carry that teenage electricity - not naive, but gloriously unfiltered. New single ‘Only Girl’ is an ardent, strings-laced love song that started as a grunge track and mutated into something big-hearted, boisterous and euphoric…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: BLACK FONDU public
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🎧 Approved: BLACK FONDU

London-via-Accra artist BLACK FONDU collides hyperpop, noise, rap, punk and abstract grime into something that manages to sound pretty lawless but ultimately intuitive. With a neat Gwen Stefani throwback in the hook, new single ‘holla back girl’ rips up millennial pop tropes to forge something new…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
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