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Wildcard (week 31):
Wildcard (week 31):
Manic Street Preachers – People Give In
No need to introduce Manic Street Preachers. Ever since their 1992 debut album Generation Terrorists I’ve been a fan of this Welsh band, often colloquially known as The Manics.
Their latest album Resistance Is Futile, released on Friday 13 April, is their 13th. Sounds like a good luck charm to me 😉. The long-player is, in the band’s own words, ‘obsessively melodic’. It’s clear from opening track People Give In on, it has the orchestral sweep of their most successful album to date, 1996’s Everything Must Go.
People Give In has now been chosen as the album’s sixth and last single. A song about growing old(er), it brings listeners through the trials and tribulations life often brings our way and comments on people’s responses to it. People get tired, people get old, people get forgotten, people give in, people move on, people stay strong. It’s a hopeful reminder of human resilience.
This week, People Give In by Manic Street Preachers is the Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. You can find a full list in the Wildcards 2018 playlist.
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 43)
Not all, but only the *best* new music from a massive release week. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- The Allergies – Knock Me Off My Feet
indie | pop | r&b | soul - The Awkward – Killer Whale
indie | pop | rock - The Cat Empire & Sydney Symphony Orchestra – Blood On The Stage [Live]
indie | live | orchestral | pop - Customs – New Galaxy / Rise Again
indie | pop - Flat Moon – A Moon’s Bouche funk | indie | jazz | rock
- Goodnight Sunrise – Jealous (Of My Friends)
indie | rock - Hoshi – Mauvais Rêve [28 Ans]
hip hop | indie | pop | rock - HotWax – She’s Got A Problem indie | rock
- Madame Psychosis – Lucky indie | rock
- Manic Street Preachers – Hiding In Plain Sight pop | rock
- Declan McKenna – Champagne pop
- Mobley – Y’r Ghost
indie | pop - Lenny Monsou – Idolizer pop | rock
- Maren Morris – People Still Show Up pop
- Rykarda Parasol – Like Maria Callas indie | pop | rock
- Slow Pilot – Falling Off The Earth indie | melancholic | pop
- They Might Be Giants – Doctor Worm [Live] indie | live | pop
- Underworld – Techno Shinkansen dance | pop
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 36)
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:
- Pet Shop Boys – Everybody Will Dance (B-side to Feel) (Wildcard this week)
- Telenova – Margot (Wildcard last week)
- Ama – Sucks
- Dolores Forever – Concrete
- Orla Gartland feat. Declan McKenna – Late To The Party
- Manic Street Preachers – Decline And Fall
- Myles From Home – Van Trippin’
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 35)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Ama – Sucks indie | pop | rock
- Manu Chao feat. Laeti – Tu Te Vas indie | latin | pop
- Dolores Forever – Concrete indie | pop
- Orla Gartland feat. Declan McKenna – Late To The Party indie | pop | rock
- Anna Lille – Late To The Party
indie | pop - Ruby Mae – Hurricane indie | pop
- Manic Street Preachers – Decline And Fall pop | rock
- Myles From Home – Van Trippin’ indie | pop | rock
- Sunset Salore – Mystery And Magic indie | pop
- Joel Sarakula – I’ll Get By Without You indie | pop | soul
- Diogo Strausz & Nic Hanson – Tropical Electrical
funk | 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.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 38)
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:
- Fickle Friends – Love You To Death (Wildcard this week)
- Clara Luciani – Respire Encore (Wildcard last week)
- Alice Merton – Island
- Annie – April
- Liberty – Troye Sivan
- MeLLLo – Crown
- Thunder Fox – Not For Sale
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: Chvrches, Jonas Brothers, Manic Street Preachers, The War On Drugs (feat. Lucius), and more.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 29)
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:
- Baxtr – In Pop We Trust (Wildcard this week)
- beabadoobee – He Gets Me So High (Wildcard last week)
- Grand Corps Malade – Des Gens Beaux
- Madison Olds – If You Wanna
- Orla Gartland – You’re Not Special, Babe
- Palaye Royale – No Love In LA
- Self Esteem – Prioritise Pleasure
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: Chvrches, Manic Street Preachers, Shakira, and more.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 20)
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:
- Niko Rubio – You Could Be The One (Wildcard this week)
- Clypso – On Our Way (Wildcard last week)
- Everyone You Know – Higher
- Luz – Counting Houses
- Number One Popstar – Forever 21
- Super db – Wait For Me
- Telenova – Tranquilize
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: Herbert Grönemeyer & Alex Silva, Manic Street Preachers, Olivia Rodrigo, and more.
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Catherine Anne Davies & Bernard Butler – Sabotage (Looks So Easy)
The Anchoress is the moniker of Welsh multi-instrumentalist and producer Catherine Anne Davies. In recent years, she worked with former Mansun front man Paul Draper and the Manic Street Preachers. Now, using her own name, she adds another high-profile collaboration to her CV. 18 September, she’ll release the album In Memory Of My Feelings, which she made with former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler. The album was written and recorded by the two in just 15 days, although years went by between the first session and the last.
Hot on the heels of the project’s first single The Breakdown, the duo come up with a second track. Sabotage (Looks So Easy) could have been a female-fronted Suede track, with its pounding drums, trademark guitar magic and chopsticks piano. The fade-out is a bit of a pity though.
Speaking of the new single, Davies says: “Some people lift others up. They’re altruistic and constructive. Then there are the energy vampires who have perfected the art of destruction. It’s about toxic masculinity and I’m channelling my inner Patti Smith and Chrissie Hynde here to raise a middle finger to every man who played the victim when they were called out.”
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Stereo Honey – My Darkness
British quartet Stereo Honey have a way with anthemic pop/rock. On their new single My Darkness, they bring their sound another step forward, expanding it to cinematic proportions. Think pounding drums and drawn out guitar notes on a bed of synths. Producer Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, Kylie Minogue, Ocean Colour Scene) did a great job there.
My Darkness is taken from the band’s upcoming third EP Ladders To The Sun, out on 6 March 2020. It also features previous single You Are A Monster and three new songs. The EP will explore themes of apathy, mental health and death.
More new Stereo Honey music is in the works, with their first full album due to follow at the end of 2020.
Recommended as well:
Stereo Honey – Through The Dark
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Carte Blanche Music Top 2018
Ahead of your favourites among this year’s Carte Blanche Music recommendations, which I publish on New Year’s Day, I round off 2018 with my personal choice.
The last year, I introduced you to 1104 great new songs via my container playlist Carte Blanche Music; over 65 hours of music. Exactly 500 of those translated into a written endorsement through this blog. In other words: only one out of each 11 suggestions (and one fifth of all of my posts) made it onto the Carte Blanche Music Top 2018.
I’m very proud of this year-end list, as it differs largely from the majority of charts you’ll find. Just a few statistics:
- 58% of the tracks feature female lead vocals (up from an already impressive 43% in the Carte Blanche Music Top 2017)
- 43% of the tracks are guitar-based (rock is dead? Think again!)
- Apart from British and American acts, my list contains artists from Australia, Norway, the Netherlands, Canada, Spain, France, Belgium, Ireland, Estonia, Germany, Sweden, Hungary and South Korea
- By consequence, you’ll not only hear lyrics in English, but also in French, Hungarian, Spanish, Portuguese and Korean
- Needless to say, my year-end list contains no proper hits whatsoever 😉
The Carte Blanche Music Top 2018 features 100 tracks by 100 different artists. As making that choice was hard enough, the songs are sorted alphabetically. Just use the shuffle button if you prefer another order 😉.
I hope you enjoy listening to the list via the Spotify player. Meanwhile, you can read my original recommendations through the links below.
