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  Credit: Jazzcat A stunning combination of silky-smooth bass, sugar-coated sonics and woozy, pleading vocals, Jazzcat’s debut single ‘Robyn’ pangs with a weighty sense of lost-hope and melancholic nostalgia, both thematically and texturally. The opening, strung out riffage sings with the same elements of desperation and fragility that frontman Jaimie Jagger does, menacingly out-of-key guitar feedback introducing the track before its accompaniment of chorus-laden, shimmering six-string swells. Jazzcat’s typically bedroom-come-slacker pop stylistic tendencies on ‘Robyn’ are met with intricate drum fills and breaks, with liquid basslines taking up the spaces in-between, granting the song a math-rocky, almost midwestern emo approach to songwriting. It is no wonder that the Birmingham quartet cite the late duo Her’s as an inspiration to their compositions, a group who, too, amalgamated   drifting melodic vox and guitar with a catchy yet experimental rhythm section. Jagger’s yearning