March 29th, 2024
playlist
Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 13)
Only the *best* new music from a guitar-heavy release week. Added to the playlist (alphabetically):
- ADMT – Weekend Offender
indie | pop | rock - The Awkward – Tiny Black Tattoo
indie | pop | rock - Olivia Booth – Wasted indie | pop | rock
- The Buoys – Subject A
indie | rock - Chasing Kites – Collide indie | pop | rock
- Cupnoodle – Bababababy
indie | pop - Cusker – He Can’t Tell Me indie | pop | rock
- Goddamn Wolves – Nowhere
indie | rock - Hozier – Too Sweet
pop | soul - Ethan Jegers – Milky Way indie | pop
- Longy – Prisoner indie | pop | rock
- Maxïmo Park – Favourite Songs indie | rock
- Rojjo – Todo Va Bien
indie | pop | rock - Slow Bones – Hiro dance | electronic | indie | instrumental | pop
- Stone Mile – Out There Somewhere indie | pop | rock
- Frank Turner – Letters indie | rock
- Twenty One Pilots – Next Semester pop | rock
- Vanderwolf – Colston Sleeps In Bristol Harbour indie | pop | rock
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
Add it to your library (click ‘+’) to hear the best new music first.
Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Wildcard (week 13):
Wildcard (week 13):
Päter – 4-7 Company
In the over seven years of Carte Blanche Music’s existence, Toronto talent Päter is one of the artists we featured most. She came on our radar in 2020 with her single Sleep, and many playful and youthful songs followed. Apart from her great and very varied songwriting, she stands out with her self-created colourful videos and overall original presence on social media.
Now, make way for Päter 2.0. In the wake of her debut album 4-7 Company, to be released on 4 April, our favourite Canadian reinvented herself. She’s produced a really grown-up body of work, which – to be honest – I hadn’t expected (yet). That’s meant to be a compliment, by the way. Don’t expect an easy listening/middle of the road album, but a self-confident record by an artist who will go only one way: her own.
The variety in Päter’s songwriting remained, but she added an extra layer on top and below. Supported by some wonderful musicians, she gives us the best she has to offer. The album’s title track, her new single, is a fine example. It has a beautiful string arrangement, wonderful vocal melodies, and it manages to be melancholic and uplifting at the same time.
She should have been a super star for long. But for those who were still in doubt: Päter is ready to make the spotlights her new habitat!
4-7 Company is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. This implies that it will be prominently displayed at the top of the blog for an entire week.
More Päter @ Carte Blanche Music
Follow her on Facebook | Instagram | X | Spotify
In the Wildcards 2024 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
werner's weekly
Werner’s Weekly (week 13)
This is Werner’s Weekly, your guide to the best new music, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Kid Kapichi – Can EU Hear Me? (Wildcard this week)
- Lauren Mayberry – Change Shapes (Wildcard last week)
- Edurne – Nada
- Olivia Rodrigo – Obsessed
- Talisco – Forknox
- Wallows – Calling After Me
- Remi Wolf – Cinderella
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.
Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
playlist
Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 12)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Edurne – Nada indie | pop
- FjeLizi – Heaven indie | pop
- Hooverphonic – The Best Day Of Our Life
pop - Jen – Nuages folk | indie | pop
- Olivia Lobato – En Katt Som Jag
pop - Päter – 4-7 Company
indie | melancholic | pop - renforshort – Hurt Like It Should indie | pop | rock
- Olivia Rodrigo – Obsessed rock
- Santa – Recommence-Moi pop
- Talisco – Forknox indie | pop | rock
- Walk Off The Earth & Luminati Suns – Beautiful Things indie | pop | rock
- Wallows – Calling After Me pop | rock
- Remi Wolf – Cinderella pop
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
Add it to your library (click ‘+’) to hear the best new music first.
Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Wildcard (week 12):
Wildcard (week 12):
Kid Kapichi – Can EU Hear Me?
Kid Kapichi are a punk band from Hastings, Great Britain. They just released their third album There Goes The Neighbourhood, which was produced by Nothing But Thieves member Dom Craik. It introduces us to their view on the world today, and that’s not necessarily an optimistic one, to put it mildly. More to the point, it captures the zeitgeist of the dissatisfying reality of living in the UK in 2024. Lyrically, the songs denounce ‘grey Britain’ and small-island thinking. Surely, not a message everyone will want to hear.
The long-player was preceded by four great singles, but one album track really stands out for me. This track, with a sound halfway Ian Dury and The Hives, is called Can EU Hear Me? Obviously, that’s not a typo in there. It’s a punch in the face of Brexit. “The worst thing that’s happened to this country in quite some time”, according to the song.
Still, the band manages to address the subject with the dry sense of humour and wit we’ve come to know from them. “You can’t just separate a tectonic plate, mate”, Jack Wilson sings.
On the website of the Union State venue in Washington DC, the vocalist further explains: “The brief was, ‘Let’s write the happiest Brexit song we can’! It’s sad to see it, but we make a big effort to make sure that whoever we meet over there knows that it doesn’t represent the country as a whole. That’s what this song is all about.”
Although it’s not a single (yet), Kid Kapichi’s Can EU Hear Me? is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. This implies that it will be prominently displayed at the top of the blog for an entire week.
Follow Kid Kapichi on Facebook | Instagram | X | Spotify
In the Wildcards 2024 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
werner's weekly
Werner’s Weekly (week 12)
This is Werner’s Weekly, your guide to the best new music, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Lauren Mayberry – Change Shapes (Wildcard this week)
- Saint Samuel – Hit And Run (Wildcard last week)
- aimei 媚 – I Like U Looking At Me
- Dizzy Days – Something About It
- Styleto – Faut Que Tu M’aimes
- Tillie – Pray To God
- Rick Treffers – Hummingbird
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.
Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
playlist
Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 11)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- aimei 媚 – I Like U Looking At Me electronic | indie | pop
- Dizzy Days – Something About It dance | indie | pop
- Kid Kapichi – Can EU Hear Me? indie | rock
- King Ibis – Cooling Embers indie | pop | rock
- Segana – Freak On The Dance Floor indie | pop
- Styleto – Faut Que Tu M’aimes chanson | pop
- Tillie – Pray To God indie | pop
- Rick Treffers – Hummingbird indie | pop
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
Add it to your library (click ‘+’) to hear the best new music first.
Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
single track, wildcard
Wildcard (week 11):
Wildcard (week 11):
Lauren Mayberry – Change Shapes
I’ve always been a huge fan of Scottish electro-pop trio Chvrches. Their first two albums, especially, are amongst my favourites of the ‘10s. Following the band’s most recent album Screen Violence, from 2021, singer Lauren Mayberry announced her solo career. She promised her own material would be ‘fun, freaky, sad, weird and joyful’. At last year’s solo gigs, she showcased numerous unreleased tracks, alongside covers of Madonna, Depeche Mode, The 1975 and Texas.
Last autumn, Mayberry put out her first two singles under her own name, Are You Awake? and Shame. Change Shapes is her third and best solo effort so far. She co-wrote it with Cleo Tighe, Evan Blair and Matt Koma (who also produced the cut). Led by a groovy, pulsating bassline, it’s a propulsive, powerful pop anthem. It sees Mayberry railing against the expectations put on her as a woman, and how her efforts as a feminist are constantly undermined by those who think she’s doing both too much and not enough.
Change Shapes by Lauren Mayberry is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. This implies that it will be prominently displayed at the top of the blog for an entire week.
More Lauren Mayberry @ Carte Blanche Music
Follow her on Facebook | Instagram | X | Spotify
In the Wildcards 2024 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
werner's weekly
Werner’s Weekly (week 11)
This is Werner’s Weekly, your guide to the best new music, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Saint Samuel – Hit And Run (Wildcard this week)
- ili – It’s Giving… (Wildcard last week)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God
- Dead Pony – Rainbows
- Leony – Simple Life
- The Libertines – Oh Shit
- Moving Into Tucson – She Likes Me
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.
Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
playlist
Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 10)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Andy & The Odd Socks – Play The Game indie | pop
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Wild God gospel | indie | melancholic | pop
- Dead Pony – Rainbows electronic | indie | rock
- I.Am.Em – Stylin’ indie | pop | r&b
- Alice Ivy (feat. Låpsley) – Popstar indie | pop | rock
- Leony – Simple Life indie | pop
- The Libertines – Oh Shit pop | rock
- Little Green – What If She’s Crazy? indie | pop
- Lucky Number You – Hands On The Horizon indie | pop
- Lauren Mayberry – Change Shapes electronic | pop
- Moving Into Tucson – She Likes Me indie | rock
- Sofia Portanet – Entre Nos Lèvres chanson | indie | pop
- Shuttle – Roll The Dice And Bet
indie | pop - Tamzene – What Sundays Are For indie | pop
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
Add it to your library (click ‘+’) to hear the best new music first.
Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
