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CMU Approved
🎧 Approved: For Nina public
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🎧 Approved: For Nina

For Nina aren’t in the business of big statements. Not yet, anyway. But their new single ‘Swallow’ (released today) doesn’t ask for your attention so much as quietly consume it. Think Slowdive, but with an Irish lilt…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Shreea Kaul public
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🎧 Approved: Shreea Kaul

Shreea Kaul slips past easy genre lines, sitting in the space between late-night honesty and sharp-eyed control. It's soft-edged R&B that doesn’t mind getting a little weird. New single ‘Crooked Salesman’ starts out hazy and alluring, then shifts under your feet…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Cardinals public
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🎧 Approved: Cardinals

Cork five-piece Cardinals channel a monochrome, windswept kind of nostalgia - equal parts shoegaze, Irish trad, and shadowy rock and roll romanticism. New single ‘Big Empty Heart’ is a gothic patchwork of shanty-leaning balladry and poetry-drenched punk…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Greta Isaac public
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🎧 Approved: Greta Isaac

Welsh-born, London-based Greta Isaac is a surreal, sugar-rushed blast of alt-pop. New single ‘Soft Scoop Talking Do’ introduces Dolly: Greta’s chaotic, art-pop alter ego who appars through a vape haze with a wink. It’s weird, wired and irresistibly fun…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Joviale public
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🎧 Approved: Joviale

London-based artist Joviale crafts portal-like songs; chaptered, strangely sweet selves. New single ‘HARK!’, from debut album ‘Mount Crystal’, is a sinister funk centrepiece: swaggering vocals over rubbery bass, angular strums and unruly beats…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Ain’t public
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🎧 Approved: Ain’t

Pulling from post-punk, shoegaze and 90s indie, South London’s Ain’t map out a sound that’s tense, slightly off-centre, but always measured. On new single ‘Jude’, guitars blur into texture, vocals drift in and out of focus, and atmosphere quietly takes the lead over melody…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: SCALER public
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🎧 Approved: SCALER

Brutalist and bruising, SCALER’s sound feels traditionally Bristolian with its immense low-end pressure tempered by subdued spatial stretches that drift and sprawl. New single ‘Salt’, featuring Akiko Haruna, pushes that even further; every bit as focused and feral as you’d hope…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Drumfish public
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🎧 Approved: Drumfish

Johannesburg’s Drumfish emerged in September 2020 into a local scene still reeling from pandemic-induced silence. Their sound is a mean churn of garage scuzz. It’s jagged, fuzzy and feral in all the right places, capturing a band still very much on the edge, but now with teeth bared…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Nina Cobham public
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🎧 Approved: Nina Cobham

Nina Cobham is a Manchester-based artist blending English indie pop with gentle bossa nova, shaped by her bilingual upbringing. New single ‘I’m The Problem’ pairs soft, airy vocals with an undercurrent of frustration; a quietly powerful moment of clarity…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Prince 85 public
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🎧 Approved: Prince 85

Elusive producer behind The Weeknd, Metro Boomin, Future and more, Prince 85 blends French Touch, rave and sci-fi soundscapes into something strange and cinematic. It's latest single ‘All Of Us’ is a wild, otherworldly ride…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: nabeel (نبيل) public
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🎧 Approved: nabeel (نبيل)

nabeel (نبيل)’s lyrics carry the compact intensity of Arabic poetry, set against a backdrop of shoegaze and slowcore influences of Richmond, Virginia. New single ‘yalma يلمع’ is a meditation on ephemerality and the ache of belonging when suspended between two worlds.…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧Approved: BIG WETT public
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🎧Approved: BIG WETT

BIG WETT stomps over the line between pop star and chaos agent. Her new single ‘No Regrets’ is a filthy, fun breakbeat track built for bad decisions and good nights. DIY visuals and barked-out mantras seal the deal…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
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