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CMU Approved
🎧 Approved: PS Hitsquad public
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🎧 Approved: PS Hitsquad

Peckham’s PS Hitsquad is easily positioning himself alongside the pulsing vanguard of UK rap’s emerging underground talent. Paving the way for what PS brands as “post-drill”, new single ‘Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda’ is full of synths, footwork-esque drums, hazy nostalgia and melodic layers…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Balming Tiger public
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🎧 Approved: Balming Tiger

Balming Tiger are penned as “alternative K-pop”, which tells you something but not nearly enough. New album ‘Gongbu’ is fourteen tracks of psychedelic sounds layered over Korean and East Asian musical textures, dreamlike and nostalgic and faintly hallucinatory…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: youbet public
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🎧 Approved: youbet

Brooklyn duo youbet flirt with shoegaze without fully committing to it, and the result is something genuinely hard to place and easy to love. “It’s like we’re running a family business”, vocalist Nick Llobet says of the duo, which sounds like a joke until you hear how tightly they fit together…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Pigeon public
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🎧 Approved: Pigeon

Margate five-piece Pigeon make music that sprawls and mutates. Afro-disco, krautrock, punk-funk, post-punk: all of it is in there, somehow, but it never feels like genre tourism. It just feels alive. New album ‘OUTTANATIONAL’ is sublime…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧Approved: Basht. public
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🎧Approved: Basht.

Basht. make no-nonsense indie rock that knows exactly where it comes from: careening guitars, DIY zeal, punk and grunge worn openly on the sleeve. It’s a crowded space, but Basht. have something that sets them apart, a restraint that makes the moments they let go hit harder…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Alex Amor public
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🎧 Approved: Alex Amor

Alex Amor makes the kind of music that washes in like the tide, gauzy, slow-burning alt-pop built from clouds of keyboards, heavily treated guitars and multitracked vocals that blur together into something that sounds, on first listen, like one beautiful wash of sound…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: WIDGET public
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🎧 Approved: WIDGET

WIDGET make Hannah Montana-referencing, discofied dance rock, which sounds better than it reads, trust me. New single ‘WHAT IF PHONES BUT TOO MUCH’ is an arpeggiated bop about smashing glass ceilings and imagining everyone’s face replaced with Danny Dyer’s…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Finn Askew public
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🎧 Approved: Finn Askew

Finn Askew doesn’t sound like a Bieber knockoff, he just happens to be fishing in the same water, and pulling out something of his own. ‘BLUEBOY’, his new six track mixtape, is lush slow jams done right, built on minimalist trap drums and close-mic vocals…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Kat Duma public
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🎧 Approved: Kat Duma

Kat Duma crafts sound with dubby rhythms, ethereal pop textures, and moments that shimmer with recognition before slipping away again. New single 'Mirrored Water' has a quietly Madonna-esque quality, a bit like 'Frozen', but pulled somewhere a little more whimsical…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Widowspeak public
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🎧 Approved: Widowspeak

NYC duo Widowspeak deal in a kind of effortless Americana alchemy, dream pop, a little Stones, a little Petty, open and languid ballads with the twang of a Lynchian roadhouse band. New single ‘No Driver’ is a lush, widescreen pop gem, unhurried and wide-open…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Modern Woman public
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🎧 Approved: Modern Woman

There's Kate Bush in the DNA, avant-garde tendencies, folk tradition, but Modern Woman have gone and folded post-punk into the whole thing, which works beautifully. New single ‘Johnny’s Dreamworld’, is feverishly brilliant…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Alewya public
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🎧 Approved: Alewya

Raised in West London with Ethiopian and Egyptian roots, alt-soul hyphenate Alewya treats heritage as something active rather than archival. She doesn’t move like a conventional artist, describing herself as a painter who makes music, which makes sense when you sit with her songs…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
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