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CMU Approved
🎧 Approved: Sweeping Promises public
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🎧 Approved: Sweeping Promises

Angular post-punk with a DIY spirit, Kansas’s Sweeping Promises bring decades of experience to new single ‘Cocoon’, originally written to pad out early shows, now reworked for third album ‘You Say I Romanticize’…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Monjola public
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🎧 Approved: Monjola

Born in Lagos and raised in Dublin, Monjola moves between an effortless rap flow and smokey falsetto without making a thing of it. New single ‘Weight On Me’ is a good place to start. Understated and soulful, and - despite its vulnerability - it remains gorgeously uplifting…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Levina public
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🎧 Approved: Levina

London-based singer-songwriter Levina makes gorgeous and intimate, piano-led soul with folk and jazz running through it. New single ‘You Know Everything’ is a smoky, unhurried lament about returning to self-trust after emotional manipulation…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Charlotte Dos Santos public
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🎧 Approved: Charlotte Dos Santos

You can tell Charlotte Dos Santos relishes following her own creative intuition, which is why she’s had comparisons to Solange. New single ‘Roses’ is a good place to start, richly textured lush, cinematic chamber soul, with a slightly psychedelic-jazz arrangement…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Girls In Hawaii public
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🎧 Approved: Girls In Hawaii

Despite their name, Girls In Hawaii are neither from Hawaii nor girls; they’re two pairs of brothers from Belgium who make very good melancholic and slightly unsettling indie pop/rock. New single ‘Eldorado’ is no exception…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Clutter public
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🎧 Approved: Clutter

Stockholm four-piece Clutter play knotty, blown-out punk rock with a lot going on underneath; lyrically they’re picking at big questions, existential, political, but the noise is too good to get preachy about it. New single 'GirlVsHeart' is gnarly and hook-laden and about love…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: DBA! public
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🎧 Approved: DBA!

Liverpool trio DBA! were born in a basement, their DIY demo studio is tucked into the drain of a Merseyside nightclub. Their sound? Noisy, melodic, slightly scuffed indie rock with something to say. New single ‘Little Rivers’ isn't trying to reinvent anything, it’s just a very good rock song…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 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 •
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