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CMU Approved
🎧 Approved: Girl Scout public
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🎧 Approved: Girl Scout

Girl Scout’s jazz school chops and a penchant for scrappier music gives their songs a loose, lived-in feel, where melody comes first and polish is optional. New single ‘Keeper’ pulls away from the scuzziness of last month’s ‘Operator’ and sinks into something foggier and more exposed…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: ugly ozo public
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🎧 Approved: ugly ozo

Isle of Wight trio ugly ozo dwell in a languid space between grungey bedroom pop and doom-gaze. New single ‘hi, how are you?’ was written during a stretch of burnout and emotional numbness, and it carries that weight…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Namasenda public
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🎧 Approved: Namasenda

Swedish pop visionary Namasenda is in her own Eurobeat-tinged, angelic pop world. New single ‘Cola’ is a glossy, digi-soaked rush of avant-pop, pairing accelerated guitar arpeggios with elastic rhythms and a tectonic low end for a sleek, hypnotic, all-around bop…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: GUV public
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🎧 Approved: GUV

GUV grew up moving between Toronto and England and carries a very real strain of UK lineage that separates him from other hardcore kids sporting bowl cuts. New single ‘Blue Jade’ leans hard into punchy shoegaze, smearing hummable melodies beneath a thick gloss of distortion and texture…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: tofusmell public
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🎧 Approved: tofusmell

Tofusmell, the project of Winnipeg musician Rae Chen, carries echoes of 90s indie folk, Elliott Smith, early Sufjan Stevens, but Chen isn’t chasing their shadows. New single ‘(Me Tomorrow)’ gently stretches their framework. It’s unassuming, almost lulling, until the final moments…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Odd Beholder public
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🎧 Approved: Odd Beholder

Odd Beholder is the project of Swiss artist Daniela Weinmann, who makes electro wave and dreamily dark indie pop that documents the oddities and quiet failures of contemporary life. New single ‘Like A Chore’ emerged from a specific moment she witnessed while working as a teacher to finance her music…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Rusty Santos public
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🎧 Approved: Rusty Santos

Rusty Santos pulls from psych folk, outsider pop and spiritual songwriting, but never in a way that feels archival. His music sits slightly askew, shaped by unusual tunings, soft dissonance and a sense of curiosity about sound itself. New single ‘Are You A Portal’ leans into that suspended feeling…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Sassy 009 public
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🎧 Approved: Sassy 009

Sassy 009 thrives in the in-between: a space where distorted vocals, grunge textures, shoegaze swells, 90s beatronica and gauzy hyperpop collide. On new single ‘Mirrors’, she links with Malaysian-Irish producer and singer yunè pinku for a reflective, downtempo shimmer…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: PVA public
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🎧 Approved: PVA

PVA make music that feels bodily and obsessive. They tap into something potent - close to the shoddy, shady spirit of early Chicago house but sharpened into something visceral and contemporary. New single ‘Send’ is a glimpse into their upcoming album’s core fixations: physicality and desire…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Elmiene public
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🎧 Approved: Elmiene

British-Sudanese soul shape-shifter Elmiene’s real clincher is that voice - old-soul, amber-toned and reaching for something bigger: timelessness. His new single, ‘Cry Against The Wind’, is one of his most vulnerable works yet…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
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