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Wildcard (week 35):
Wildcard (week 35):
Beach Bunny – Year Of The Optimist
Initially a solo project by guitarist and vocalist Lili Trifilio, Beach Bunny became a full band in 2017. She’s currently joined by bassist/lead guitarist Anthony Vaccaro and drummer Jon Alvarado.
Last spring they released their third album Tunnel Vison, full of urgent, guitar-based indie rock with pop melodies. It was met with critical acclaim. That long-player is now followed by a song that was written at the same time as Tunnel Vision. Year Of The Optimist pushes back on toxic vulnerability and Trifilio’s people pleasing tendencies.
“Put me on your pedestal, ’cause I’m the queen of self control,” she sings on the chorus. “I’ll smile when life hits the wall, but inside I’m afraid.” It ends with the promise (or is it a warning?): “I’m never gonna grow up, baby, I’m just gonna change.”
Year Of The Optimist by Beach Bunny 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.
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Wildcard (week 26):
Wildcard (week 26):
Beach Bunny – Vertigo
Since the departure of lead guitarist Matt Henkels in 2022, Beach Bunny are a trio. Front woman Lili Trifilio is surrounded by Anthony Vaccaro, who swapped his bass for the guitar, and drummer Jon Alvarado. 2022 was also the year the band released their latest album Emotional Creature. But now, they’re back!
Vertigo is Beach Bunny’s first single in two years’ time. With its blend of pop, punk, and indie music, the upbeat tune that is as catchy as it’s bouncy. The tight rhythm section underpins a commanding vocal line from Trifilio. She described the single as ‘a bop about self sabotage, jealousy, and generally spiralling (classic)’.
Trifilio came up with the melody of the song on a flight, she says. “I wrote this on an aeroplane in my head and tried to demo it in the bathroom very sneakily. But aeroplane bathrooms are super loud, so as to not forget how it went, since the audio was trash, I sang it in my head for the entire duration of a 4-hour flight.”
Vertigo by Beach Bunny 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.
Recommended as well:
Cloud 9 (feat. Tegan & Sara)
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In the Wildcards 2024 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
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Beach Bunny feat. Tegan & Sara – Cloud 9
Beach Bunny is a Chicago-based 4-piece around front woman Lili Trifilio. When they released their debut album Honeymoon, in 2020, the closing track Cloud 9 was one of its highlights. It was rightly released as a single, early that year, but only recently it started to truly make an impact. Thanks to TikTok (where it racked up 1.3 million(!) creations), the track re-emerged and went viral. So far, it spent five consecutive weeks on the Spotify Global Viral 50 chart, earning more than 2 million streams per day and over 78 million total streams. It also crossed from the streaming charts to Billboard’s Hot Alt Songs chart and the Rolling Stone Trending 25 chart. Meanwhile, it’s one of the most added songs at alternative radio.
And now, there’s a brand-new version of Cloud 9, that’s likely to spice things up even further. This new take on an already great tune features Canada’s finest singing twins: Tegan & Sara Quin. The Platinum-selling duo not only lent their voices to the song, but also updated its lyrics to include gender neutral and feminine pronouns.
The sisters say about the collaboration: “We’re massive fans of Beach Bunny, and when we heard Cloud 9 for the first time fell in love with the brilliant lyrics and addictive melody. We love that Lili was up to let us experiment with changing the pronoun in the chorus to ‘she’. The efforts made to make the song relatable to everyone, isn’t just about inclusivity, we think it’s a great indication of the flexibility and creative spirit of the band at its core!”
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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 17)
Not all, but only the best new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Beach Bunny feat. Aly & AJ – Clueless
indie | pop - Blossoms – Joke About Divorce
indie | pop - Graham Coxon – Billy Says indie | pop | rock
- Daphnie – 28
indie | rock - Duran Duran & Nile Rodgers – Free To Love indie | pop
- Egoism – Summer Again, Sung To The End indie | rock
- Icona Pop – Dance To This
dance | electronic | indie - Lights – Right Through You
electronic | indie | pop - Miki Núñez – Un Altre Cop
latin | pop | ska - The Waterboys – Too Close To Heaven [Soul Version] indie | rock | soul
- Suki Waterhouse – Tiny Raisin pop
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 37)
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:
- G Flip – Bed On Fire (Wildcard this week)
- Beach Bunny – Year Of The Optimist (Wildcard last week)
- Ash – Which One Do You Want?
- David Byrne & Ghost Train Orchestra feat. Hayley Williams – What Is The Reason For It?
- Lady Gaga – The Dead Dance
- Saint Etienne x Confidence Man – Brand New Me
- Lucia – Lights Off
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 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:
- Beach Bunny – Year Of The Optimist (Wildcard this week)
- Wolf Alice – Just Two Girls (Wildcard last week)
- Dressed Like Boys – Pinnacles
- The Hives – They Can’t Hear The Music (album track)
- Audrey Hobert – Thirst Trap
- Keli Holiday – Dancing2
- Moving Into Tucson – All I Ever
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):
- Richard Ashcroft – Lovin’ You pop
- Beach Bunny – Year Of The Optimist indie | pop | rock
- Dressed Like Boys – Pinnacles indie | pop
- The Hives – They Can’t Hear The Music (album track) indie | rock
- Audrey Hobert – Thirst Trap indie | pop
- Keli Holiday – Dancing2 indie | pop
- Rene Kaaij – Sammy’s Song indie | pop
- Moving Into Tucson – All I Ever indie | pop
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 18)
Not all, but only the best new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Ama – Metro Girl
indie | pop - Amalia – Sugar Baby indie | pop
- Ana & The Changes – Sabiranje
indie | pop | rock - Beach Bunny – Just Around The Corner indie | pop | rock
- Damiano David – Voices
pop - Noga Erez – Not My Problem
pop | r&b - Lamomali (-M-, Toumani & Sidiki Diabaté) feat. Amadou & Mariam, Oxmo Puccino & Fatoumata Diawara – Je T’aime
indie | pop | world - Tom McGuire & The Brassholes – Fun funk | indie | pop | soul
- Pistol Daisys – Calling Your Name indie | pop | rock
- Sophisticated Dingo – Feels Like Woah indie | rock
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 7)
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:
- Bea & Her Business – We’re Not The Same (Wildcard this week)
- Dancer – Wrap Around Me (Wildcard last week)
- Beach Bunny – Tunnel Vision
- Bailey Perrie – No Main Character
- Pistol Daisys – Crying In Marseille
- Superbus & Hoshi feat. Nicola Sirkis – Lola
- Drew Thomas – Do They Even Know You?
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 6)
Not all, but only the best new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Bea & Her Business – We’re Not The Same pop
- Beach Bunny – Tunnel Vision indie | pop | rock
- Divebar Youth – Divide indie | pop | rock
- Lasca Dry – Sunset Baby indie | pop
- Lisa feat. Doja Cat & Raye – Born Again
funk | pop - Wendy Moore – Trigger indie | pop | rock
- Bailey Perrie – No Main Character indie | pop | rock
- Pistol Daisys – Crying In Marseille funk | indie | pop | rock
- The Slow Readers Club – Boy So Blue indie | pop | rock
- Stereophonics – There’s Always Gonna Be Something pop
- Superbus & Hoshi feat. Nicola Sirkis – Lola pop
- Drew Thomas – Do They Even Know You? indie | pop | rock
- Trilla – Slipstream 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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