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CMU Approved
🎧 Approved: Frankie Rose public
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🎧 Approved: Frankie Rose

Brooklyn’s Frankie Rose makes glacial post-punk and 80s synth-pop that sits alongside Cocteau Twins or early Cure. New single ‘Manifest’ is at the darker end of that: industrial, brooding and from an album about grief…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: RenzNiro public
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🎧 Approved: RenzNiro

Manchester’s RenzNiro blends vaporised grime, experimental electronics and world-building lyricism into something singular. Five projects in, ‘No Weapon Shall Prosper’ is the one that undeniably makes the case…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Eddie 9V public
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🎧 Approved: Eddie 9V

Atlanta guitarist Eddie 9V spent years in metal bands before a Howlin Wolf clip changed everything. New single ‘Blowin Up’ - country-fried funk, greasy slide guitar, actual explosions - is the first taste of his Dan Auerbach-produced debut for Easy Eye Sound…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Moses Boyd public
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🎧 Approved: Moses Boyd

Moses Boyd is back after five years away and ‘Say Yeah’ was worth the wait - gospel-rooted, dancefloor-ready jazz with a London accent and a hook so simple it works in any language. A video made with Woolwich Creative Club has exactly the communal feel the song is about…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Kamal. public
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🎧 Approved: Kamal.

Kamal. had 250 million streams and a Dave collab before he’d even put out a debut album. That arrives 17 Jul and new single ‘Back Then’ - a voice note recorded in his childhood home turned into something genuinely hard to shake - suggests it's been worth the wait…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: alphabet public
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🎧 Approved: alphabet

Barely any recorded music, but London’s alphabet have already sold out shows and built a real live following. New single ‘Sense’ finally captures that energy on tape; abrasive guitars, propulsive drums and dual vocals swinging between desperate and enticing…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: supermodel* public
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🎧 Approved: supermodel*

Frankie Beanie’s supermodel* makes cigarette-rasped alterna-pop. New single ‘blue monday’ trades his deadpan Tesco-meal-deal wit for something more wistful, upbeat drums and acoustic guitar settling into slacker blues about chasing someone who was never going to choose you back…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Chloé Caillet public
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🎧 Approved: Chloé Caillet

Chloé Caillet mixes in key, thinks in harmonics, and her music is bubbly and beautiful for it. New single ‘Bad Bara’ is warm, playful house; rolling bassline, shimmering synths, the kind of track that channels a dance festival daytime set in the sun, which is exactly where Caillet tends to be…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Holy Wave public
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🎧 Approved: Holy Wave

Four childhood friends from El Paso who moved to Austin after a life-altering My Bloody Valentine show in 2008, Holy Wave have spent the years since becoming one of the most satisfying underground psych-rock bands America has produced. New single ‘dewey’s dirge’ is gloriously disorientating…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 Approved: Blumi public
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🎧 Approved: Blumi

Emma Broughton left political sociology research to make music with the same precision. New single ‘Jaguar’ opens with a bass line that demands attention before exploding into a psychedelic chorus about choosing connection over solitude…
Kaya Robertson
Kaya Robertson •
🎧 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 •
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