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🎧 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 •
🎧 Approved: corto.alto public
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🎧 Approved: corto.alto

Led by trombonist, producer and sonic experimenter Liam Shortall, corto.alto has been steadily pulling jazz into new territories. New single ‘VANDAL’ opens with punchy live brass and percussion before bleeding into textures that belong more to Berlin’s club culture than a jazz conservatoire…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Genesis Owusu public
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🎧 Approved: Genesis Owusu

Genesis Owusu debut album ‘Smiling With No Teeth’ was a transcendent blueprint for modern hip hop; a fearless exploration of identity, experimenting with funk, punk and rap. On new single ‘PIRATE RADIO’ he once again refuses to assimilate and redraws the boundaries of his own sound…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Max Baby public
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🎧 Approved: Max Baby

A self-taught multi-instrumentalist with synaesthesia guiding his ear, Paris-born polymath Max Baby has a sound that is both shadowy and luminous, defiantly singular. New single ‘Feet’ finds him leaning into obsession and surrender, that messy zone where pain and pleasure overlap…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Milo Korbenski public
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🎧 Approved: Milo Korbenski

Imagine a flickering arcade in Brighton at 2am: music seeps from the speakers, boxy torn-cone distortion and octave-dropped vocals coalescing with synths. That’s Milo Korbenski, a figure as enigmatic as his sound. New single ‘Bedrock’ shifts the pace into indie slacker-ballad territory…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Déyyess public
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🎧 Approved: Déyyess

Déyyess makes “sparkley grunge”, a sound that blends sapphic tenderness with 90s-indebted shoegaze shimmer. New single ‘She Knows’ is all quiet radiance and anxious crush energy, channelling the crystalline melancholy of The Sundays, while nodding to contemporary queer icons like Chappell Roan…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Clarice Jensen public
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🎧 Approved: Clarice Jensen

On paper, a Juilliard-trained cellist opening for My Chemical Romance might look like a curveball. In reality, it makes perfect sense. Clarice Jensen’s new single, ‘Unity’, grows out of a symmetrical four-chord motif. It’s part tradition, part experiment and entirely her own language…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
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