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Wildcard (week 4):
Wildcard (week 4):
Altered By Mom – Dive In
I consider myself a huge Altered By Mom fan. 2020 was an extraordinarily prolific year for the Canadian duo; they released one song every week, resulting in a massive, truly great album, aptly titled 52 Songs. Two hours and 30 minutes very well spent.
Unsurprisingly, Gina Kennedy and Devon Lougheed eased down after fulfilling that project. They participated in a Christmas single at the end of 2021 and were completely off the musical radar last year. Now, thankfully, they’re back! Diving head first into the new year, Altered By Mom just released a beautiful new single.
Dive In is a classic power pop song, with a hooky psychedelic sound which the duo describe as ‘St. Vincent and Lenny Kravitz racing Lamborghinis’. Lyrically, it’s a call to action to chase after the things that scare you the most. A relatable tune that clocks in just under the 3 minute mark.
Altered By Mom’s comeback single Dive In is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. That means it’ll be featured prominently at the top of the blog for a whole week.
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In the Wildcards 2023 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
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Altered By Mom – You Can Do What You Want With My Heart, Babe
Altered By Mom – You Can Do What You Want With My Heart, Babe
Even the artists I like best (as in: ever), have their weak moments. And they’re not to blame, for they’re only humans, aren’t they? It’s hardly possible to record only great tunes. That being said, it looks like Altered By Mom are trying to prove the opposite.
Since the beginning of this year, the Canadian duo are releasing one song every week. To be honest, I only recently learned of – and started following – their initiative, and it’s quite impressing. Three out of the four songs they put out in the last 28 days are absolute aces (and the fourth one isn’t bad at all).
You Can Do What You Want With My Heart, Babe is Devon Lougheed and Gina Kennedy’s most recent release (at the time of writing, that is). It’s written with Lawrence Nichols of fellow Toronto band Lowest Of The Low and features a modulation by the book near the end. Wonderful stuff… again!
Judging from the quality of their recent output, with 52 songs to choose from by the end of the year, it must be possible to compile the bestest ‘Best Of’ ever. Perhaps even two.
Recommended as well:
Better On The Page
Walking With The Enemy
Hear That Sound
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Altered By Mom – Better On The Page
Altered By Mom – Better On The Page
Setting yourself a task to release a new song every week for a whole year, doesn’t leave much room to dwell on each individual track. Not even when it’s such a great tune as last weeks Carte Blanche Music Wildcard: Altered By Mom’s Walking With The Enemy. But as predicted: the band already moved on.
This week, the Canadian duo share new song Better On The Page. And guess what? It isn’t some kind of filler, but another top track. An up-tempo song with staccato beats. The verses feature alternating vocals of Devon Lougheed and Gina Kennedy, whose voices blend beautifully in the choruses.
A project very much worth following, and you’ll end up with a great (and comprehensive) collection of songs by the end of the year.
Recommended as well:
Altered By Mom – Walking With The Enemy
Altered By Mom – Hear That Sound
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Wildcard (week 32):
Wildcard (week 32):
Altered By Mom – Walking With The Enemy
As you may have noticed, Australia and Canada are currently two of my favourite sources of exciting new music. Altered By Mom are from Toronto.
The project started as an excuse for producer/songwriter Devon Lougheed to play with some of his favourite musicians from all across Canada. But it really took shape with the permanent addition of Gina Kennedy (bass/vocals) and Jamie Williamson (drums). Well, not really permanently actually, for in 2020, Altered By Mom are a duo consisting of Lougheed and Kennedy. In general, they play all instruments themselves.
Long before Corona kicked in, the band set a goal for themselves: they would release a song a week this year. That’s 52 songs. In other words: quite a lot! Still, they manage to maintain a high standard, combining a knack for infectious melodies and classic song-writing with a quirky sense of humour and a tongue-in-cheek post-grunge aesthetic. They describe themselves as ‘like Sloan had a baby with Barenaked Ladies… and then that baby stole your cigarettes’.
Walking With The Enemy is the pair’s latest single. Or, by the time you read this, they’ll probably have released a follow-up already. But Walking With The Enemy is a song worth servicing to radio stations and playlist curators. It’s an above par track which starts with an ‘80s, Neue Deutsche Welle kind of synth, before the drum kicks in. What follows is a tune so catchy, it deserves to be a hit (whatever that may mean these days).
As I like to put my money where my mouth is, Walking With The Enemy by Altered By Mom is this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard!
Recommended as well:
Altered By Mom – Hear That Sound
In the Wildcards 2020 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
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Altered By Mom – Hear That Sound
Altered By Mom – Hear That Sound
Altered By Mom started as an excuse for producer/songwriter Devon Lougheed to play with some of his favourite musicians from all across Canada, but really took shape with the permanent addition of Gina Kennedy (bass/vocals) and Jamie Williamson (drums).
Ahead of their new album Trapped In An MP3 (due later this year) the Toronto-based pop-rock band have a new single out. Hear That Sound showcases their knack for classic song-writing with a tongue-in-cheek sense of humour. And the way the male and female vocals are juxtaposed is just lovely. Boy, would this have been a radio hit when radio was still about smart and catchy pop songs!
The band says about the track: “Hear That Sound is about making someone else cry. It’s such a universal yet specific moment – because people cry all the time, but when it happens, nothing feels more deeply personal. In the audio world, we talk about crossfades where one bit of audio blends seamlessly into another, and sometimes relationships end and begin like that too. This song encompasses the sound of artefacts from a previous relationship fading out while a new one begins.”
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 28)
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:
- Seafret & KT Tunstall – Five More Seconds
(Wildcard this week) - Disco Mary – Proof (Wildcard last week)
- Altered By Mom – Knee High Sox
- Bettie Serveert – Ta!
- Bradley Denniston – Her
- Wendy Moore – Tangled Wiring
- The Moving Stills – Tsunami
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.
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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 27)
Not all, but only the best new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Altered By Mom – Knee High Sox indie | pop | rock
- Bettie Serveert – Ta! indie | pop | rock
- Bradley Denniston – Her indie | pop
- Wendy Moore – Tangled Wiring electronic | indie | pop
- The Moving Stills – Tsunami indie | pop | rock
- Baba Pen & The Bim Bam Band – Hare In The Haze indie | pop
- Roleplay – Got A Feeling
indie | pop - Salarymen – Let Me Go indie | pop
- Wilsn – Keep Walkin’ indie | pop | soul
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.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 23)
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:
- Jude Kelly – Married To Her Death
(Wildcard this week) - Pulp – Got To Have Love (Wildcard last week)
- Altered By Mom – Call Me Maybe (Carly Rae Jepsen cover)
- Bertolf & Nomden – Hysteria
- Marine – Coeur Maladroit
- Kalie Shorr – My Type
- Vistas – Cut The Cord
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
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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 22)
Not all, but only the best new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Altered By Mom – Call Me Maybe (Carly Rae Jepsen cover) indie | pop | rock
- The Beaches – Did I Say Too Much indie | pop | rock
- Bertolf & Nomden – Hysteria americana | indie | pop
- Veronica Fusaro – No Rain No Tears
indie | pop - Jude Kelly – Married To Her Death indie | pop
- Marine – Coeur Maladroit pop
- The Rions – Shut You Out indie | pop | rock
- Self Talk – Stuck indie |rock
- Nadia Sheikh – Recuerdos (Memories)
indie | pop - Kalie Shorr – My Type indie | rock
- The Spitfires – Where Did We Go Wrong? indie | rock | ska
- Vistas – Cut The Cord indie | 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.
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Wildcard (week 17):
Wildcard (week 17):
renforshort – Feeling Good
Home to artists like The Beaches, Tegan & Sara, Altered By Mom and Päter, Canada is one of my favourite continents, music-wise. ren (the musical alter ego of Lauren Isenberg) is from Canada as well. The Toronto-born singer-songwriter debuted with her single Waves in 2019. A year later, she changed her stage name to renforshort. Since then, she collaborated with numerous other artists, beside releasing her own music. Currently, her catalogue holds one full album and four EPs.
EP #5, A Girl’s Experience, is slated for release on 6 June. Three tracks have already been released so far. On My Way! and Pretend To Like Me are now followed by Feeling Good. The bold new single overflows with energy and attitude. Combining renforshort’s signature alt-pop flavours with a 90s pop throwback and a touch of psychedelic-tinged production, it pushes her evolving sound to new heights. The song gradually intensifies, culminating in a cathartic release, with renforshort delivering punchy, vibrant vocals. A contender for the feel-good song of the year!
Just ahead of her 23rd birthday, Feeling Good by renforshort is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. It will be prominently displayed at the top of the blog for an entire week.
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In the Wildcards 2025 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
