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Wildcard (week 43):
Wildcard (week 43):
Dead Anyway – Does Anybody Know Who I Can Hand These Things Into?
How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously? (Pet Shop Boys). Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey (The Beatles). Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand (Primitive Radio Gods). Just a few unusually long song titles that at one point made me think: how on earth can one pack these into a catchy melody? It was exactly the thought that occurred to me when I saw the title of Dead Anyway’s new single: Does Anybody Know Who I Can Hand These Things Into?
The answer to this question often isn’t only in the vocal melody. The accompanying music can be just as important to create a memorable tune. Especially when the lyrics aren’t sung, but delivered in spoken word style. And in Dead Anyway’s universe, that intersection of vocals and music is exactly where the magic happens. The way Marc Symonds sets Kate Arnold’s poetry to beats and sounds brings the already expressive lyrics to life even more .
Does Anybody Know Who I Can Hand These Things Into? is a pop song with an edge. Or, well, multiple edges. In fact: many edges. Every time you put it on, new details reveal themselves. It’s a layered song with a walking bass line, playful drum patterns, a lovely piano, sweet strings, and.. wait… do I really hear seagulls? Extra vocal lines, singing Kate’s spoken lyrics, certainly help the audience to sing along with the track’s complicated title. A really great song!
Next Friday, 25 October, Dead Anyway’s new album Tough, Listen comes to all the streaming platforms. But it’s already on Bandcamp, if you can’t wait. You didn’t hear it from me…
PS: In Kate’s recent book Kicking At Tombstones you can discover that her poems are intriguing in their own right. It contains a selection of 25 poems she wrote for her band, and each physical copy of the book comes with a code to download all of the 25 full songs.
Does Anybody Know Who I Can Hand These Things Into? by Dead Anyway 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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Dead Anyway – The King And I
Dead Anyway – The King And I
*SONG SNACK*
Your ears deserve to hear this duo’s razor-sharp spoken lyrics, set to a variety of musical backdrops.
Recommended as well:
Headless Chicken
Moving Target
Space Dust
Pigs In Blankets
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Dead Anyway – Headless Chicken
Dead Anyway – Headless Chicken
*SONG SNACK*
Short and snappy ska-tinged spoken word song. Check full album Houdinis Of Ennui as well!
Recommended as well:
Moving Target
Space Dust
Pigs In Blankets
Follow Dead Anyway on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Dead Anyway – Moving Target
Dead Anyway – Moving Target
*SONG SNACK*
The first single off their new album Houdinis Of Ennui has a Tom Waits-vibe to it. Cool as always.
Recommended as well:
Space Dust
Pigs In Blankets
Follow Dead Anyway on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Dead Anyway – Space Dust
Dead Anyway – Space Dust
Writing a long article isn’t that hard. All you’ve got to do is pour out all of your ideas and combine them in one piece. Making your point in a short article however is much more complicated. It forces you to really choose your words carefully and only include your strongest arguments. As far as I’m concerned, the same goes for songs. Short songs (provided they’re crafted by great musicians, of course) often cut the deepest.
Enter Dead Anyway. Kate Arnold (lyrics/vocals) and Marc Symonds (beats/instruments) are currently two of Britain’s most prolific artists. If you think: ‘I betcha, their songs are 2 minutes on average’, I’m afraid you didn’t catch my drift. Creating a short track can easily take more time than a long one.
In the case of the duo’s new single Space Dust, the lyrics are as witty and humorous as ever. Musically, they chose a driving jazzy drum beat, piano and percussion for a back drop. This way, once again, Symonds found a highly effective way to highlight Arnolds poetry. In 97 seconds, it’s all over. Thank God for the repeat button. Let’s hope Adele doesn’t kill it…
Listening to Space Dust, The Jackal by Ronny Jordan feat. Dana Bryant (1993) came to mind. You might like that one as well. But: listen to Space Dust first!
Recommended as well:
Dead Anyway – Pigs In Blankets
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Dead Anyway – Pigs In Blankets
Dead Anyway – Pigs In Blankets
Spoken word artists aren’t people who can’t sing per se. They’re people who deliver their message in a different way. A way that often has more impact than singing. To me, spoken word sounds more urgent, more compelling. It almost forces one to listen.
If all of that doesn’t sound familiar, or if you’ve never listened to spoken word before, please let me introduce Dead Anyway. Kate Arnold (lyrics/vocals) and Marc Symonds (beats/instruments), both from Gloucestershire UK, had been in bands together during the 1990s and mid 2000s, and started working together as Dead Anyway in late summer of 2019.
The new collaboration started when Symonds, who was getting into recording techniques in his home studio, asked Arnold to read some of her poetry. That allowed him to practice recording voices. But things went a little bit out of hand. During 2020, the duo released five EPs and their debut album Trip Switch Lips. Sophomore album Are We Doing This? followed in 2021. All were recorded during lockdowns using one take vocal performances recorded into a mobile phone.
Now, Dead Anyway are back with another brand-new track, and it’s an absolute banger. Pigs In Blankets once again features Arnold’s angry, funny and clever poetry over Symonds’ great beats and hooks. The lyrics might be slightly explicit, but as said, Kate is angry, and rightly so. Great message, awesome song!
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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 25)
Not all, but only the best new music. Quality over quantity. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Dead Anyway – Dear Automation (EP track)
electronic | indie | spoken word - Rose Gray – Club To Your Arms dance | pop
- Alex Stanilla – Who Cares
indie | pop | rock
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify 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):
- Dead Anyway – Beyond Repair (album track) indie | pop | spoken word
- Deadletter – Among Us indie | pop | rock
- Deep Thrills – She Did Alright! electronic | indie | pop | rock
- Mamas Gun feat. Brian Jackson – Dig! indie | pop
- Natalie Shay – I Choose U indie | pop | rock
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 3)
Not all, but only the best new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Dylan Cartlidge – Crazy World indie | pop
- Chvrches – Addicted To Love (Robert Palmer cover) electronic | pop
- Dead Anyway – A Shift Of Perspective indie | pop | spoken word
- Lauren Minear – Perfect Girl indie | pop
- They Might Be Giants – Eyeballs indie | pop | rock
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 29)
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:
- Grace Davies – Hotel Delilah (Wildcard this week)
- Seafret & KT Tunstall – Five More Seconds (Wildcard last week)
- Autoheart – Indigo Chateau
- Ciska Ciska – Jump Right In
- Dead Anyway – Another Night Done (EP track)
- Lucia – Giving It Up
- Yellowcard – Take What You Want
Listen to each of the tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player below.
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