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🎧 Approved: Sylvie public
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🎧 Approved: Sylvie

LA-based Ben Schwab started Sylvie after finding a box of his father’s 1970s band tapes. Country folk-rock with a soft-focus amber glow, new single ‘Not Looking Back Anymore’ glows with early Bonnie Raitt tenderness. A debut album is out 6 Nov…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Clinic public
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🎧 Approved: Clinic

Liverpool duo Clinic have been making genuinely strange art-punk since the late 90s - surgical masks, acidic vocals, jumble sale organs, a Grammy nomination. Tenth album ‘Wild In The Streets’ is out 30 Oct. New single ‘Energies’ is the closest they’ve ever come to the dancefloor…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: PROJECTOR public
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🎧 Approved: PROJECTOR

With Brighton quartet PROJECTOR industrial drum machines, angular post-punk and rant-pop share the same space. New track ‘I Need A Lie Down’ was designed to “make people feel sick and culminate in a horrific wall of noise” when played live, which sounds horrible but (at least on record) sounds great…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: L'OBJECTIF public
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🎧 Approved: L'OBJECTIF

Leeds four-piece L'Objectif make high adrenaline post-punk with New Order propulsions and vocals that dacne somewhere between Morrissey and Jarvis Cocker. New single 'Walking Home (From The City)' is big, cathartic and about the nostalgia of being 16-20. Their first music of 2026.…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Gaspar Claus public
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🎧 Approved: Gaspar Claus

Cellist Gaspar Claus makes contemporary chamber music threaded with Mediterranean folk and electronics - every sound originates from a cello, then gets stretched, processed and metamorphosed into something else entirely. New single ‘Ecstasy’ holds the kind of sensory intensity the title promises…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Julia Jacklin public
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🎧 Approved: Julia Jacklin

Australian songwriter Julia Jacklin makes warm, fuzzy indie-folk with a husky crackling alto. New single ‘If I Had The Hand Of God’ is cathartic and country-nodding. Album ‘The Gem’ - recorded above a Melbourne pub, with a bartender doing the band’s matching tattoos on the last day - is out Friday…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Bricknasty public
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🎧 Approved: Bricknasty

Dublin collective Bricknasty sound like the version of the city that doesn’t make the tourist brochure. New single ‘honey bee’ is warm, funky and characteristically idiosyncratic, a different mood from the faith, addiction and political fury of their 2025 EP…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Paerish public
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🎧 Approved: Paerish

Parisian four-piece Paerish make shoegazy, melodic alt-emo with a deep obsession with film and pop culture. New single ‘Vapor Cloud’ is riff-heavy and comes with a nocturnal, anime-inspired drift video. Album ‘Rita’, produced by Will Yip, is out 16 Oct…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Girl Ultra public
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🎧 Approved: Girl Ultra

Mexico City’s Girl Ultra makes chrome-plated synth-funk with an 80s new-wave edge, co-produced with Chromeo. New single ‘Te Caigo’ is a manifesto for acting on desire rather than waiting around. The video involves a pink thong, a ballet fight and a Mexican lawyer…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Venus Grrrls public
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🎧 Approved: Venus Grrrls

Northern four-piece Venus Grrrls make goth-grunge with a Nineteenth Century literary obsession and have a slightly coven-like fanbase. New single ‘Mother Knows’ is written about the myth of Mary Shelley having sex on her mother’s grave…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: The Black Wizards public
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🎧 Approved: The Black Wizards

Porto trio The Black Wizards make garage rock with a political edge and a sharp sense of humour. New single ‘Wishing Well’ is frantic proto-punk, and their fourth album was recorded in five chaotic days after the original sessions fell through. Rough edges intact, the album will arrive on 4 Sep…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Fat Dog public
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🎧 Approved: Fat Dog

South London seven-piece Fat Dog make chaotic, euphoric electro-punk-art-rock with very few rules. New single ‘Shit Love’ is stabbing synths and manic vocals. Second album ‘Cancel Me (I'm Tired)’ is out 2 Oct. They headline Brixton in the same month…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
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