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CMU Approved
🎧 Approved: Domina public
CMU Approved • 1 min read

🎧 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
CMU Approved • 1 min read

🎧 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
CMU Approved • 1 min read

🎧 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
CMU Approved • 1 min read

🎧 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 •
🎧 Approved: Tebi Rex public
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🎧 Approved: Tebi Rex

After a decade of pulling Irish hip hop into stranger, sharper, funnier shapes, Irish alt-rap duo Tebi Rex are calling time. Two people met at a college talent show, made something that didn’t sound like anyone else around them and left a mark. ‘Fin.’ is the bow on top…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Amie Blu public
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🎧 Approved: Amie Blu

South East Londoner Amie Blu makes rich and raw folk rock, imbued with feeling. New single ‘bite’ sees Blu checking herself in real time, asking why we swallow down love instead of letting it spill out, and doing so with a voice that’s rich without being over-dressed…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: kissin' teef public
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🎧 Approved: kissin' teef

kissin’ teef is the sonic expression of Kai Isaiah-Jamal, a South London creative whose world spans poetry, fashion and now music. Debut EP ‘impatiently waiting’ offers something slick yet deep-rooted; channeling early 2000s grime, rap and funky house, as a love letter to multicultural Britain…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Winter public
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🎧 Approved: Winter

Winter has carved out her own lush, shoegazey corner of the indie scene; beautifully understated, fuzzy and wistful. New single ‘Hide-A-Lullaby’ drifts slow and gauzy through the subconscious with feather-light vocals, smouldering guitar and a quiet flirtation with heartbreak…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
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