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🎧 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 •
🎧 Approved: Frankie Rose public
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🎧 Approved: Frankie Rose

Brooklyn’s Frankie Rose makes glacial post-punk and 80s synth-pop that sits alongside Cocteau Twins or early Cure. New single ‘Manifest’ is at the darker end of that: industrial, brooding and from an album about grief…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: RenzNiro public
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🎧 Approved: RenzNiro

Manchester’s RenzNiro blends vaporised grime, experimental electronics and world-building lyricism into something singular. Five projects in, ‘No Weapon Shall Prosper’ is the one that undeniably makes the case…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Eddie 9V public
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🎧 Approved: Eddie 9V

Atlanta guitarist Eddie 9V spent years in metal bands before a Howlin Wolf clip changed everything. New single ‘Blowin Up’ - country-fried funk, greasy slide guitar, actual explosions - is the first taste of his Dan Auerbach-produced debut for Easy Eye Sound…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Moses Boyd public
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🎧 Approved: Moses Boyd

Moses Boyd is back after five years away and ‘Say Yeah’ was worth the wait - gospel-rooted, dancefloor-ready jazz with a London accent and a hook so simple it works in any language. A video made with Woolwich Creative Club has exactly the communal feel the song is about…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Kamal. public
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🎧 Approved: Kamal.

Kamal. had 250 million streams and a Dave collab before he’d even put out a debut album. That arrives 17 Jul and new single ‘Back Then’ - a voice note recorded in his childhood home turned into something genuinely hard to shake - suggests it's been worth the wait…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
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