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Werner’s Weekly (week 30)

July 22nd, 2019

This is Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:

Werner's Weekly new music

Call Me Loop – Self Love (Wildcard this week)
Frank Turner – Sister Rosetta (Wildcard last week)
Casey Lowry – Boyfriend
Inspired & The Sleep – Getting Through
Lily Moore – Over You
Nix Dadry (feat. Julie Claire) – Station Street East
The Bird & The Bee (feat. Beck) – Hot For Teacher

Click the links for more info and listen to each of the tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player below.

For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist. Also added last week: Angèle, Jonas Brothers, Kraak & Smaak, The Pale White, Rita Ora, and many more.

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Hemliga Klubben – Asshole

July 21st, 2019

Most people reading this won’t understand a word of this track, apart from its title. However, music is an international language, that can also be enjoyed when you don’t get the lyrics. Let me introduce to you: Hemliga Klubben (which means ‘the secret club’) from Sweden.

Hemliga Klubben features four talented songwriters, who met in 2017 during a songwriter session in a music studio. A year later, they formed a band. All of the members are involved in every aspect of the song crafting process, and they sing alternately on their tunes. Musically, most of the tracks they write and produce are energetic and up-tempo. Just listen to their new single Asshole for an example.

I’m sure Hemliga Klubben are huge Pet Shop Boys fans, like me. This could explain why Asshole’s chorus sounds very much like the Boys’ banger Pandemonium, off their 2009 album Yes.

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electronic | indie | pop

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Striking Matches – Boring

July 21st, 2019

American singer-songwriters/guitarists Sarah Zimmermann and Justin Davis form Striking Matches. They leaped to fame after the music supervisor for the television series ‘Nashville’ used nine of their songs in the show’s first four seasons. Two of those were featured on their T-Bone Burnett-produced debut album Nothing but the Silence.

Combining their blues and roots based guitar riffs with pop melodies, their music has been dubbed ‘blues-pop’. New single Boring, with its percussive rhythms and infectious call-and-response chorus, is a great example.

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indie | pop | rock

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Amber Run – Neon Circus

July 21st, 2019

Joshua Keogh, Tomas Sperring and Henry Wyeth met at Nottingham University, where they studied Humanities and Law. In second year, they decided to abandon their studies to focus on the band. Following three EP’s, Amber Run released their debut album 5AM in 2015, a collection of emotive, anthemic rock tracks.

The trio’s upcoming album, Philophobia (set for a 27 September release) will be their third, and Neon Circus is its new single. A track that comes to the point straight away with a heavy guitar riff and an up-tempo drum beat. After two minutes, however, the pace slows down for the second half. A song with two faces.

Explaining the lyrics, frontman Joe Keough says: “Neon Circus is about getting the fuck off your phone. Nothing meaningful happens with your head tilted downwards towards your black mirror.”

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pop | rock

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Corine – Je Danse Le Mia

July 21st, 2019

France has a rich tradition in rap and R&B. Like all over the world, these are the dominant genres in the country nowadays, but the history goes way back. In the ‘90s and ‘00s, these genres were very popular as well. And these are exactly the focus decennia of the upcoming album Back Dans Les Bacs, which compiles the biggest French rap and R&B songs, reprised by current French artists.

The first single off this album is Je Danse Le Mia by Carte Blanche Music favourite Corine. She featured here three times already. The original version, which sampled Give Me The Night by George Benson, was a huge hit for Iam in 1993. For her make-over, Corine drowns the song in her signature future disco funk, while keeping the classic sample intact. Meanwhile, she proves to be a very fine rapper herself. Great clip as well, by the way. A remake by the book!

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disco | funk | hip hop | pop

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The Wyze – Faded Gold

July 21st, 2019

Chase Ellestad (vocals, guitar) and Chris Cheong (synths/pads) met in Miami one night in the summer of 2016, where they continued to party for a few days. They discovered they both lived in Toronto and started producing music together when they returned to Canada. In June 2017, The Wyze was formed. They used their apartments as studios to record a volume of music.

Faded Gold is the debut single from the indie duo; four more songs will follow throughout this summer. It was written and produced by Ellestad and Cheong, in collaboration with Nick Henriques. The song’s bassline alone should be nominated for an award. Lyrically, Faded Gold is about the realization you’re headed down the wrong path, rather than the one you intended to take.

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indie | pop

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Twin Peaks – Dance Through It

July 21st, 2019

In the early ‘90s, I was a huge fan of Twins Peaks, the TV series by David Lynch. Some 20 years later, I started being a huge fan of Twin Peaks, the band from Chicago. Their latest studio album dates back to 2016, but the group will release their fourth full length, Lookout Low, in September. It has been produced by Ethan Johns (Kings Of Leon, Ryan Adams and Counting Crows, among many others).

Dance Through It, one of Twin Peaks’ smoothest and sultry tracks yet, is the album’s first single. It is said to have started off as a demo that sounded like a Sheryl Crow song, but along the way, it grew into a tune with a soulful vibe. It fully comes to life in the final minute, when a few more horns inject some extra spirit.

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indie | pop | soul

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Charli XCX feat. Christine & The Queens – Gone

July 21st, 2019

When two pop powerhouses join forces, what can go wrong? Well, quite a lot in fact, but in this case, it works out brilliantly. The audience first witnessed this collaboration when Christine & The Queens singer Héloïse Letissier joined Charli XCX during her show at the Primavera Sound festival. The studio version is out now.

Gone is a song with ‘pop’ written all over it. Its pulsating rhythms are built with ’80s drums and ’90s synths, but still manage to have a futuristic sound. Charli XCX reveals: “This song is about feeling isolated and alone in crowded rooms, the feelings of anxiety and learning to be comfortable with who you truly are. It’s about breaking down and breaking free. It feels like one big external scream.”

Her third studio album Charli, out in September, is bound to be a star studded affair of Ed Sheeran-like proportions. You have been warned…

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electronic | pop

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Bishop Briggs – Champion

July 21st, 2019

Inspired by her parents’ hometown, Bishopbriggs, in Scotland, Sarah Grace McLaughlin uses Bishop Briggs as her stage name. At age four, she moved with her parents to Tokyo and later to Hong Kong. She was 18 when she moved to Los Angeles, to start her musical career.

Her 2018 debut album Church Of Scars was partly a ‘best of’ of the singles she released previously. That same year, she put out the brand-new song Baby. Now, the follow-up single Champion is here. Co-written by recent Carte Blanche Music favourite K.Flay, it’s exactly what the title promises.

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pop

cover, single track

The Bird & The Bee (feat. Beck) – Hot For Teacher

July 19th, 2019

Inara George is the daughter of Little Feat’s Lowell George, and Greg Kurstin produced everyone from Lily Allen, Sia and Adele to Beck, Kendrick Lamar and Foo Fighters. In 2004, Kurstin contributed piano to several tracks on George’s solo debut. It was then they laid the foundation for The Bird & The Bee, a jazz-influenced electro-pop project.

Since their 2006 debut EP Again And Again And Again And Again, they released four full albums. One of them was Interpreting The Masters Volume 1: A Tribute To Daryl Hall & John Oates. No need to explain the concept of that album, I presume?

As you could also have guessed from the title, The Bird & The Bee intended to give more acts their re-interpretation treatment. Well, on 2 August, Interpreting The Masters Volume 2: A Tribute To Van Halen will see the light of day. Ahead of it, they already released their versions of Panama and Ain’t Talking ‘bout Love, but I like their new single Hot For Teacher the best. Not in the least because of the teacher, impersonated by Beck. The original version is from Van Halen’s album 1984.

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electronic | jazz | pop

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Werner’s Weekly (week 30)

Hemliga Klubben – Asshole

Striking Matches – Boring

Amber Run – Neon Circus

Corine – Je Danse Le Mia

The Wyze – Faded Gold

Twin Peaks – Dance Through It

Charli XCX feat. Christine & The Queens – Gone

Bishop Briggs – Champion

The Bird & The Bee (feat. Beck) – Hot For Teacher

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