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CMU Approved
🎧 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 •
🎧 Approved: Eaves Wilder public
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🎧 Approved: Eaves Wilder

Eaves Wilder mixes dream-pop, shoegaze and alt-rock with the sisterly energy of Wet Leg, CMAT and Wolf Alice - songs that feel alive and always on the brink of some sonic or emotional edge. New single ‘Everybody Talks’ started with a simple, maddening observation: at support sets, everybody talks…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Amanda Bergman public
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🎧 Approved: Amanda Bergman

Part-time regenerative farmer, part-time songwriter, Amanda Bergman makes music with the same patient, restorative quality that guides her offstage life. Recorded almost entirely live at the legendary ABBA studio, new single ‘Grasp’ is a song of soft electronics and muted magnificence…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Ethel public
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🎧 Approved: Ethel

Parisian songstress Ethel has a way of making music feel physical. New single ‘Sorted’, produced with longtime collaborator Banshee The Great, sounds both handmade and a little cosmic. Synths blink in and out like city lights, a bassline hums low to the ground, and Ethel’s voice dances atop…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: The Orielles public
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🎧 Approved: The Orielles

Manchester-based trio The Orielles hover between pop-rock instinct and art-school experimentation: organs hum, guitars shimmer, rhythms loop until they almost dissolve. New single ‘Three Halves’ is built from droning organs, cello and guitar; dense one moment, airy the next…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 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 •
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