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🎧 Approved: Ethel public
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🎧 Approved: Ethel

Parisian songstress Ethel has a way of making music feel physical. New single ‘Sorted’, produced with longtime collaborator Banshee The Great, sounds both handmade and a little cosmic. Synths blink in and out like city lights, a bassline hums low to the ground, and Ethel’s voice dances atop…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: The Orielles public
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🎧 Approved: The Orielles

Manchester-based trio The Orielles hover between pop-rock instinct and art-school experimentation: organs hum, guitars shimmer, rhythms loop until they almost dissolve. New single ‘Three Halves’ is built from droning organs, cello and guitar; dense one moment, airy the next…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Trophy Wife public
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🎧 Approved: Trophy Wife

Brooklyn-based indie rock trio Trophy Wife cut through the noise but never harshly, riding atop the fuzz like a thread of warmth through static. Wrapped in heavy riffs and fuzzed-out melodies, new single ‘So Hard’ is a negotiation with desire itself…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Azamiah public
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🎧 Approved: Azamiah

Glasgow-based alt-jazz quartet Azamiah craft music that feels like it’s breathing. Their latest release, ‘New Moon’, has that Cleo Sol-esque luminosity; harmonies float, the instruments breathe and silence becomes part of the melody…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Fitzroy Holt public
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🎧 Approved: Fitzroy Holt

Fitzroy Holt’s sound has blues in its bones, punk in its pulse and an unpredictability born from Black Country grit. Named after a Midlands saying for taking the long way round, new single ‘Around The Wrekin’ is a surge of stoner-rock riffs with punk momentum…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧Approved: BIG SPECIAL public
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🎧Approved: BIG SPECIAL

Walsall duo Big Special turn post-industrial malaise into something close to gospel, trading in thunderous drums, spoken-word sermons and a humour so black it practically glows. New single, ‘Plaintive Native’, lands somewhere between working-class blues and post-punk sermon…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: My First Time public
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🎧 Approved: My First Time

Formed at university, Bristol quartet My First Time channel the scrappy energy of early Blur, the wry storytelling of The Streets, and a splash of Charli XCX’s pop sleaze. New single ‘Sippy Cup’ crashes like a hurled pint glass…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Austra public
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🎧 Approved: Austra

Austra is the pop project of Canadian artist Katie Stelmanis, whose music lives between euphoria and unease, like a new-wave Kate Bush mid-transcendence. New single ‘Siren Song’ is trance-like and glimmering, with pulsing basslines and the bittersweet melancholy she does best…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Umut Adan public
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🎧 Approved: Umut Adan

Turkish singer-songwriter Umut Adan and his Italian band Zebânis have a sound they coin “danceable dissent”. New single ‘Bogotà’ is a hypnotic protest anthem, fusing Anatolian psych with the communal pulse of cumbia…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Glom public
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🎧 Approved: Glom

There’s no gloom in Glom, instead we get shimmering riffs, 90s-leaning alt-rock choruses and shoegaze haze, with the tight rhythms of late 80s post-punk. With ‘Mirror’ he’s written one of his most frank songs, yet it remains unashamedly melodic and uplifting…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Westerman public
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🎧 Approved: Westerman

Westerman, the project of Will Westerman, lives somewhere between folk and chamber pop; saint-like but playful in its textures. New single ‘About Leaving’ from upcoming album ‘A Jackal’s Wedding’ leans into all of that with a soft power…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Annabelle Chairlegs public
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🎧 Approved: Annabelle Chairlegs

Annabelle Chairlegs has a subtle noirish romanticism, classic and bluesy but with a touch of tongue-in-cheek sensibility that hints at the salt and grit beneath the sugar. New single, ‘Ice Cream On The Beach’, captures that mix of lusty, distracted, hair-twirling energy…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
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