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🎧 Approved: M(h)aol public
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🎧 Approved: M(h)aol

Emerging from the creative confluence of Dublin, Belfast and London, M(h)aol (pronounced ‘male’) don’t just make post punk they wield it. Their new single, ‘DM:AM’, is a blistering one-take shot at the entitled men who clog women’s inboxes with unsolicited, aggressive messages…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: SALMA public
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🎧 Approved: SALMA

Spanish singer SALMA’s sound retains the passion of flamenco, but it’s enveloped in modern production that shifts between footwork and reggaeton. Her new single ‘na te debo’ is the sound of tension and resolve - heartbreak, but with its back straight.…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Shura public
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🎧 Approved: Shura

Shura says most pop music is “too confident”, so she made her own. Her new single ‘Richardson’ is a lulling reflection on isolation; a laid-back groove adorned with soft guitar licks and flurries of keys - yet it carries a pit in your stomach kind of weight…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Cain Culto public
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🎧 Approved: Cain Culto

Cain Culto operates in a world of high drama and warped pop maximalism. A former worship pastor turned provocateur, his latest track ‘KFC Santería’ is Culto at full power: part sermon, part satire, part hyperreal fever dream…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Kara-Lis Coverdale public
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🎧 Approved: Kara-Lis Coverdale

Born in Burlington, Canada, with Estonian roots, composer Kara-Lis Coverdale has a way of making electronic music feel deeply human. On her latest single, ‘Daze’, Coverdale channels the unpredictability of shifting air currents into sound…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Choses Sauvages public
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🎧 Approved: Choses Sauvages

Montreal’s Choses Sauvages toe multiple lines within the realm of modern post-punk, new wave, disco and Krautrock. Their new track ‘Cours Toujours’ is no exception, it’s disorienting, a little paranoid and weirdly danceable…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: lullahush public
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🎧 Approved: lullahush

Ivor Novello Rising nominee and Athens-based Dublin artist lullahush blends folk and electronica into a striking vision of modern Irish identity. His latest single, ‘Maggie na bhFlaitheas’, twists a Celtic reel into a beautifully unclassifiable hybrid…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Ryder public
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🎧 Approved: Ryder

From viral sensation to Skepta collaborator, Ryder brings a fresh perspective to production - one that thrives on reinvention and unpredictability. His new single ‘WTF’ with BXKS pulses with the bass-heavy bounce of Brazilian funk, built for movement and mayhem…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Mappe Of public
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🎧 Approved: Mappe Of

Mappe Of operates at the fringes of folk, threading organic instrumentation through intricate, electronic textures. His latest single, ‘Happiness In The Singularity’, pushes that fusion further, layering glitchy synths over wistful melodies in a meditation on digital permanence…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Witch Post public
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🎧 Approved: Witch Post

Witch Post is Alaska Reid and Dylan Fraser, two artists from different Livingstons - one in Montana, the other in Scotland. Their new single ‘Dreaming’ blends moody indie with warped pop. Named after carvings once used to ward off spirits, Witch Post instead invites something in…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Salami Rose Joe Louis public
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🎧 Approved: Salami Rose Joe Louis

A genre traveler at heart, Lindsay Olsen - aka Salami Rose Joe Louis - blends jazz, soul and synth-driven electronica into something uniquely her own. Floating atop gently revolving Polybrute arpeggios, her latest single ‘Inside’ is sombre yet luminous…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Raveena public
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🎧 Approved: Raveena

Born to Indian immigrant parents and raised in Queens, Raveena was shaped by Bollywood ballads, jazz standards and 70s soul. Her latest single, ‘Sun Don’t Leave Me’, inspired by the LA wildfires, reflects the grief of watching something beautiful fade - whether nature, love or a moment in time.…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
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