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Lemaitre feat. Anna Of The North – What About U
Lemaitre feat. Anna Of The North – What About U
After releasing 7 EP’s between 2010 and 2015, jazzy dance track Closer became Norwegian producers Lemaitre’s first really huge hit. Following inclusion in commercials and TV series, it has been streamed over 100 million times by now. Six years later, it still sounds as epic as in 2015.
Via collabs with The Knocks, Betty Who and others, they steadily built upon this success. Now, Ketil Jansen and Ulrik Denizou Lund release their next collaboration. What About U is Lemaitre’s softest and most poppy track yet, in part thanks to Anna Of The North’s sweet vocals. The fellow-Norwegian, real name Anna Lotterund, also co-wrote the song with the duo.
A radio-friendly tune that should expand Lemaitre’s success from the dancefloor to the radio.
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Anna Of The North – Someone
Anna Of The North – Someone
The eighties called, they want their music back! Anna Of The North’s new single sounds like a great tribute to an epic musical era. The drums, the synths, the choirs… It even resembles Kim Carnes’s Bette Davis Eyes (from waaaaaaay back: 1981).
Anna (real last name: Lotterud) didn’t consciously experience the eighties, though. She was born in June 1989. She released her first single Sway when she was 25 and several other dreampop tracks followed. All of these garnered praise from critics, but I think this new single, Someone, could propel her to a larger audience.
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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 7)
The best from a crazy amount of new releases. Added this week (alphabetically):
- Anna Of The North – Swirl
indie | pop - Bailen – Call It Like It Is
indie | pop | rock - Nessa Barrett – Bang Bang! pop | rock
- beabadoobee – Glue Song
indie | pop - Black Honey – OK indie | rock
- Cole Bleu – Heartbreakers indie | rock
- Gia Darcy – I’ll Never Drink Again
indie | pop | rock - Desirée Dawson – Lonely
indie | pop | r&b - Death Of The High Street – Not Fair indie | rock
- FloodHounds – Psychosemantics indie | rock
- James Gittins feat. Sophie Naglik – What You Want [Dance Remix] dance | indie | pop
- Tara Hack – Bounce disco | electronic | funk | indie | pop
- The Hengles – Flashes Of Green
indie | pop | rock - Tycho Jones – Risk To My Reward indie | pop
- Daimy Lotus – Friends 😉 indie | pop | rock
- Melle – Can’t Come Home indie | pop
- Bea Miller – Cynical indie | rock
- Jason Mraz – I Feel Like Dancing indie | pop
- noelle – Mars indie | pop
- Lo Noom – Too Much For Me acoustic | indie | pop
- Giovany Revelle – Time indie | pop | rock
- Rews – Misery
indie | rock - Bebe Rexha – Heart Wants What It Wants pop
- Bartees Strange – Tisched Off indie | pop | rock
- Temples – Cicada indie | pop
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 44)
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:
- Hope Tala – Tiptoeing (Wildcard this week)
- Wallows – I Don’t Want To Talk (Wildcard last week)
- Chloe Lilac – 19
- Dead Anyway – Pigs In Blankets
- Lemaitre & Anna Of The North – What About U
- Lights – Prodigal Daughter
- Miss Machine – Regarder Les Choses
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, Chvrches, Novastar, and more.
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Cyn – Terrible Ideas
Cyn – Terrible Ideas
Cyn (the stage name of Cynthia Nabozny) was discovered by Katy Perry after hearing her single Only With You. Perry subsequently signed her to UnSub Records in 2016. Since then, Cyn toured with the likes of Years & Years, Sigrid and la Perry herself, while dates with Anna Of The North are in the books.
Terrible Ideas is Cyn’s new single. Powerful, edgy and dark, it marks a decided shift in sound, where the singer-songwriter’s light and airy voice works in harmony with heavier, industrial parts. About this evolution she says: “This song sounds different than anything else I’ve released because I continue to be confident enough to write things that are true to me in the moment, from the lyrics to the production.”
Defying usual song structures and melodies, the dynamics between the soft verses and the percussive, hands-in-the-air choruses make for an element of surprise that is most welcome in modern-day pop music.
Cyn is a talent to watch, and if this single describes the terrible ideas in her book, I can’t wait to hear her good ideas.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Carte Blanche Music Top 2017
I’ll publish your choice (the most read Carte Blanche Music posts of the year) here tomorrow. An absolutely great and totally surprising list. But below you can find my selection of the best music that came out in 2017.
Narrowing down, that’s what making a year-end chart is about… In the past year, I brought 940 great new tracks to your attention via my container playlist Carte Blanche Music, dedicated 650 blog posts to providing you with background info, selected 289 of them honourably for my ‘best of the best’ playlist Werner’s Weekly and chose one song each week to be placed in the spotlights on the blog: the Carte Blanche Music Wildcard.
Now, the time has come to put all of that information together, and serve you with my very personal, now and then arbitrary, but over-all rather brilliant ? final playlist of the year: the Carte Blanche Music Top 2017.
It’s a Top 100. With 100 different artists in it. Needless to say it was a struggle. Not even all the Wildcards made this final list and some artists made more than one great song in the past year. Still, I only chose one. I won’t bother you with many statistics, but I’m delighted to say that 43% of the songs feature female lead vocals. I really hope this will become a trend in 2018 on radio and streaming playlists alike.
Because all 100 songs are dear to me, they are alphabetically ordered. Of course, you can listen to the Carte Blanche Music Top 2017 on Spotify, and the links below correspond with my original recommendations. Believe me, it doesn’t get better than this (play)list 😉 . Enjoy!
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Your favourites (July 2017)
Seven full months into the year, my 2017 container playlist Carte Blanche Music contains almost 600 tracks, good for over 34 hours of great new music. 415 of them have been warmly recommended on this blog, and I’m lucky enough to have you, taking the time to read those posts. Thanks for that!
Which of my recommendations have been read the most in the month of July? This is your Top 10:
- Llorca (feat. Sapele) – Wonderwhy
- BC Unidos (feat. Shungudzo) – Bicycle (WC)
- Sea Girls – Call Me Out
- FFF – Monkee
- Uncle Frank – Your Man
- Colin Waters – We Go Our Own Way!
- Nicole Atkins – Sleepwalking
- Anna Of The North – Someone
- The Hallows – Angel
- The Dead-On – Lovesick
For all of the above tracks, and many more, check my Carte Blanche Music playlist on Spotify:
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Werner’s Weekly (week 28)
From now on you can also follow the Wildcards 2017 playlist, if you wish. Obviously, this playlist contains all of the tracks that were chosen as Carte Blanche Music’s ‘pick of the week’. In other words: the most interesting – but not per se the most commercial – songs 2017 produced so far. A real treat for your ears!
For this has been a good year for new music so far, as last week proved. My 2017 container playlist Carte Blanche Music features additions by Haim, The All-American Rejects, Wolf Alice and The Dirty Denims. And from the tracks I recommended to you on this blog, only the very best are now in my shortlist, Werner’s Weekly. They are listed alphabetically below. Click on the links for further reading and while doing so, listen to the songs through the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar. Happy discovery!
- BC Unidos (feat. Shungudzo) – Bicycle (this week’s Wildcard)
- Eliza & The Bear – Higher (last week’s Wildcard)
- Anna Of The North – Someone
- AronChupa – (Don’t Fight It) Feel It
- Punnany Massif (feat. Pásztor Anna, Charlie & Petó Szabolcs) – Ami Volt Az Majd Lesz!
- Roy Paci & Aretuska – Tira
- The Dead-On – Lovesick
