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We Are Scientists – Settled Accounts
We Are Scientists are singer/guitarist Keith Murray, bass player Chris Cain and drummer Keith Carne. As professional musicians, they can live off their music, but I still think they deserve a much broader audience. As their music has broadened over the years (from post-punk via indie rock to a more pop-leaning sound), I bet the trio agree. Alas, as streaming allows lovers of all kinds of niches to find music of their liking, radio has started to become more uniform, with most stations trying to reach the same listeners. Hopefully other channels, like less narrow-minded music bloggers, can help expose great bands like We Are Scientists.
The New York City-based band is currently preparing for the 20 January release of their 8th studio album Lobes. In preparation of this self-produced long-player, they released four tracks. Settled Accounts is the latest of this bunch. A song with a funky guitar throughout, and be honest, what’s not to like about that? Murray says of the tune: “Murray said: “It’s nice that things have come full-circle. Strident old Keith would have argued that funk was the one true musical genre. And here we are, with our funkiest tune yet.”
Following the album release, We Are Scientists will play a host of live shows in Europe, where their star has always shone brighter that in their home country. Don’t miss them!
Settled Accounts is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. That means it’ll be featured prominently at the top of the blog for a whole week.
Recommended as well:
Operator Error
One In, One Out
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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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We Are Scientists – Operator Error
*SONG SNACK*
The American duo are back with another one of their irresistibly catchy rock songs.
Recommended as well:
One In, One Out
Follow We Are Scientists on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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We Are Scientists – One In, One Out
We Are Scientists is one of my favourite power pop duos from New York, so I was happy to read they finished their sixth studio album, the follow-up to Helter Seltzer, which contained the great single Buckle.
27 April, Keith Murray (vocals, guitar) and Chris Cain (bass) will release their next offering, Megaplex. The album was recorded with Ash singer Tim Wheeler and produced by Max Hart. The latter used to play keyboards in Katy Perry’s band, the same instrument he played in We Are Scientists before that. And talking of former band members: Razorlight’s Andy Burrows banged the drums for a couple of years.
This spring, We Are Scientists will tour extensively. End of March they start a European tour that will take them to 30 stages in two months’ time. Midway through this series of dates the album Megaplex comes out, containing ten colourful and infectious pop songs to brighten up our lives. One In, One Out is the first to be released. The most poppy single We Are Scientists put out so far, which will hopefully help them to broaden their reach.
To help them achieve this goal, One In, One Out features prominently on the Carte Blanche Music blog this week, as it’s the new Wildcard (all of which you can find in the Wildcards 2018 playlist). Enjoy!
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 4)
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:
- Luude & Issey Cross (feat. Moby) – Oh My
(Wildcard this week) - We Are Scientists – Settled Accounts (Wildcard last week)
- Alma – Hey Mom Hey Dad
- Veronica Fusaro – Weekend
- Matilda Mann feat. spill tab – Borderline Insane
- Hannah Trigwell – Treat You Better
- Wilmah – Crazy 4 Your Crazy
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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Werner’s Weekly (week 3)
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:
- We Are Scientists – Settled Accounts (Wildcard this week)
- Ainsley Costello – Cherry On Top (Wildcard last week)
- Archie X – If I Were You
- Kate Davis – Monster Mash
- Tom McGuire & The Brassholes – Unshakable
- Freya Ridings – Weekends
- Raine Stern – So Precarious
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 1)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added this week (alphabetically):
- Adele – Can I Get It pop
- Ilse DeLange – Drown Us Out
pop - DeWolff – Night Train indie | rock
- Jimmy Diamond – In The Dark indie | pop | rock
- Futureworld Orchestra – All Over indie | pop
- Mckenna Grace – Ugly Crier indie | pop | rock
- Hyphen Hyphen – Own God pop
- Leony – Somewhere In Between
electronic | indie | pop - Daimy Lotus – 1st Class D-Bag indie | pop | rock
- Notbrax – Drowning In The Thought Of You indie | pop
- Sera – Head Held High pop
- The Slow Readers Club – Modernise electronic | indie | pop | rock
- The Trusted – Terrible Fight indie | pop | rock
- The Veils – Time
indie | melancholic | pop - The Vices – Never Had To Know indie | pop
- We Are Scientists – Settled Accounts funk | indie | pop | rock
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
Follow (click ‘♥’) to hear the best new music first.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 41)
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:
- Madison Davenport – Oh Shit! (Wildcard this week)
- Your Angel – Complicated (Wildcard last week)
- Alan Leach – Clouds Behind The Moon
- Florrie – Falling Back To You
- Tamir – Changes
- Telefís – The Carthaginians
- We Are Scientists – Operator Error
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: Black Honey, Maisie Peters, Royal & The Serpent, and more.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 41)
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:
- Youth Sector – Self Exile (Wildcard this week)
- Foxes – Sister Ray (Wildcard last week)
- David Bowie – You’ve Got A Habit Of Leaving [2000 Version]
- IndyAnna Baby feat. Amy Shark – I’m Not Giving Up
- Julie Zenatti – France Et Jojo
- Paloma – Fever
- The Cat Empire – Into The Night
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: Richard Ashcroft, Tears For Fears, We Are Scientists, and more.
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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.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 17)
Well, this was a really fun week, musically! Acts like DMA’s, Hooverphonic, Dutch talent Naaz, The Pale White and We Are Scientists all put out great new tracks, all of which and more are compiled in the Carte Blanche Music playlist, featuring this year’s best new music so far. It’s a list worth subscribing to (but don’t take my word for it, just go and listen for yourself).
But if you’re fine with a ‘best of the best’ list, then let me present you with Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters:
- Cute Mess – Untied (Wildcard this week)
- Stars – Ship To Shore (Wildcard last week)
- Arkells – People’s Champ
- Belle & The Beats – Deeper
- James – Better Than That
- Priest – Lost Lions
- Young Gun Silver Fox – Take It Or Leave It
Check all tracks above via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar. Triggered by one of the songs? More info behind each of the links!
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
