"the perfect electroacoustic bed made, Turton duets with her alter ego; her 'bone instantly tuning into the gently cascading, universal consciousness exploring frequencies"

"Fresh and freaky toad-licked alt-pop for '26."

"I have to admit a soft spot for eight-minute-long tracks with four-minute-long, mantric, patiently building neo-folk instrumental introductions"

"The tune's certainly got the funk and with some cool Afrobeat swing too - this is smooth jazz for a Saturday nights on the dance floor"

This is fearless, borderless genre fusing music at its best, and a track I would love to hear played live.

"Instrumentation is gentle and sparse, and like the voice, closely miked - you can hear the rub of skin against string"

"the song mines an altogether deeper jazz vocal seam within this young artist's soul - one which we need to hear more of."

"a deep, mantric slice of futuristic ancestral soul.... which should appeal to soul girls, electronic neds and late-night downtempo heads in equal measure."

"deeply soulful Ghanaian vocals with an ancestral echo that glide through the speakers, ushered by a distant throb and most surprisingly a guiding sitar light"

"blue elephant skin" leapt out of the recording and immediately grabbed my ambient jazz attention."

" the quartet somehow manage to nimbly slip into sedate jazz fusion territory, each player subtly stretching out within the song's astral soul shell, eschewing ego to maintain the song's velvety texture and tender tones,"

"Word soon spreads and all sorts of other Casio tones, cosmic whirs, chirping synths and spiralling effects seep into the track, intertwining to lift your spirits"

"It's as holistic and soothing a slice of ambient piano as you'll find this year"

"Crommett's gently emotive vocals eager to join the simple but deadly guitar refrain and its subtle meandering that provides the song's smouldering coals. "

"a faraway, gently freaky folk gem that nods to the sixties, but which has a timeless quality that will still sound good in '86."

*** This blog post first appeared in TSMM's April 7th Newsletter, where you can get all the tips (and more) first *** The Caju Collective’s seven-inch/digital releases, many of which aren’t available to stream, are the sort of vinyl series that I would lap up to show off my vinyl digging dedication and tease other DJs with, IF I still collected vinyl, DJed, and the shipping and import costs from Canada weren’t a trillion dollars per package. If you have any interest in Brazil

It's a spirit-lifting slice of electronic music and bodes well for the album. Keep an eye on this guy.

"it's not long before he picks up a sax and in a second the horn sounds are spiralling into the air to pierce New York's rabidly developing haze"

"The piano is suitably minimal, reflecting the unpopulated surroundings, and unhurriedly threads its way through some low-lit, pleasantly ambiguous found sounds"

"a bassline with more bounce to the chill-out ounce lethargically bumps through the speakers, and the track's smoky jazz meets hip hop beats credentials are cemented."

"escape to low-tempo, dirge-folk meets post-rock pastures"

"It's a real end-of-night, smile-inducing, spirit-lifting Balearic soul joy"

"a rhythmic, hypnotic guitar refrain that sucks you in from the off, regular, menacing psyche guitar riffs that punch through the gloom and ratchet up the tension"

"feel-good, low-gravity, soulful dreaminess that wouldn't have sounded out of place in the late 90s and early 00s chill-out heyday."