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🎧 Approved: Big Softy public
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🎧 Approved: Big Softy

East London duo Big Softy make maximalist club music with a love of hardcore and metal. New single ‘Troubleshooting’ is two explosive minutes of heavy dance and PC Music-style pop, and the malfunction in question is human. Debut EP ‘Soft Tissue’ is out 4 Nov…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: chlothegod public
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🎧 Approved: chlothegod

North Carolina-born singer-songwriter chlothegod can’t stay in one genre for long: soul, alt-R&B, guitar pop and punk all turn up. New single ‘B Polite!’ starts quiet and wonky, then builds until she’s declaring “I don’t wanna be polite”. It would be rude not to listen…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Internet Girl public
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🎧 Approved: Internet Girl

Cape Town trio Internet Girl are a new kind of boy band - alt-rap with smatterings of hyperpop, punk and indie sleaze. New single ‘HIGH AS HEAVEN’ sounds like it samples Klaxons’ ‘It’s Not Over Yet’ before building into a rowdy, distorted rush. Debut album ‘YES’ is out in November…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Rayland Baxter public
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🎧 Approved: Rayland Baxter

Son of Bob Dylan’s pedal steel player, Tennessee’s Rayland Baxter makes dusty, unhurried alt-country. New single ‘Up And Down A Mountain’ is glorious - toe-tapping and loose - about the chaos of falling in and out of love. New album ‘True Violet’ is also out this Friday…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Radie Peat public
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🎧 Approved: Radie Peat

Radie Peat of Lankum releases her debut solo album in November, fifteen years in the making. Opening single ‘Hares On The Mountain’ is a beautifully wry and subversive folk song. If The Stranglers had been a folk outfit, this is how they might have done it…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Ex:Re public
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🎧 Approved: Ex:Re

Elena Tonra’s solo project Ex:Re returns with ‘Sleep’ - demoed alone in a Paris hotel room, acoustic guitar run through a vocoder, late-night and muffled. Second album ‘Save As’ is out 30 Oct. The in-store shows are already sold out…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 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 •
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