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Wildcard (week 37):
Wildcard (week 37):
Fickle Friends – Love You To Death
After first establishing their reputation entirely independently, Fickle Friends signed to a major label. In 2018, Polydor released their debut album You Are Someone Else, which hit the Top 10. Soon after however, the Brighton band decided to resume the indie route. Over the course of the last 18 months, they’ve released two seasons of the Weird Years EP series.
Fickle Friends are currently recording their sophomore album Are We Gonna Be Alright? It’s scheduled to come out on 14 January 2022. The first track to be released ahead of it is their exciting new single Love You To Death. A tight, funk-fuelled pop-rock song with a Prince/Nile Rodgers energy, filled with killer hooks.
Singer Natti Shiner says about it: “It’s a song about loving someone so much you might actually kill them. I’m pretty amazed by just how much I can feel sometimes, like it’s quite overwhelming a lot of the time. That’s where this song comes from.”
This week, Love You To Death by Fickle Friends is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard!
Recommended as well:
Fickle Friends – Pretty Great
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In the Wildcards 2021 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
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Fickle Friends – Pretty Great
Fickle Friends – Pretty Great
Fickle Friends are from Brighton. So, unsurprisingly, ‘bright’ is one of the first words that spring to mind listening to their new single. But you can also file it under ‘fresh’ or ‘vibrant’.
Pretty Great (pretty great title for a pretty great song) is an addictive synth-pop tune, full of charming, relatable lyrics. Singer Natti Shiner explains: “This one is about getting wasted at a party and waking up the next day with a faint glimmer of a memory. And that memory is of falling in love with the coolest person you can imagine. And you just hate yourself for getting so out of control, because now you have no idea if it even happened, if they’re even real… or if you’ll ever see them again.”
Following last year’s Amateurs, Pretty Great is the second taste of music to come from their forthcoming second album. It’s due later this year.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 46)
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:
- Elle Coves – Fault Line
(Wildcard this week) - props – Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
(Wildcard last week) - Dark Tropics – You’re Mine
- Fickle Friends – Fantasy
- Romy – Love Who You Love
- St. Lucia – People Change
- Peter Verdell – Infinite
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 45)
Not all, but only the best new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Elle Coves – Fault Line melancholic | pop
- Dark Tropics – You’re Mine indie | pop | rock
- Fickle Friends – Fantasy indie | pop
- Fil Bo Riva – Desire
pop - The Lottery Winners – Your Last Song indie | pop
- Romy – Love Who You Love electronic | indie | pop
- St. Lucia – People Change indie | pop
- Peter Verdell – Infinite 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 45)
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:
- Customs – Rise Again
(Wildcard this week) - Dead Anyway – Does Anybody Know Who I Can Hand These Things Into? (Wildcard last week)
- Alex The Astronaut – Road Rage
- Atomics – Leave Me Be
- Fickle Friends – Feral
- Emily Ricks – Dead To Me
- Rikki – You (Tangarine cover)
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.
Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators
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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 44)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Alex The Astronaut – Road Rage indie | pop
- Atomics – Leave Me Be indie | pop | rock
- The Black Keys (feat. Beck) – I’m With The Band pop | rock
- Carpark North – Dancing With My Ghost
electronic | pop | rock - The Cure – All I Ever Am pop | rock
- Dead Nature – The Fighter indie | pop | rock
- Jimmy Fallon with ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic & The Roots – New Year’s Eve Polka (5-4-3-2-1) polka | pop
- Fickle Friends – Feral indie | pop | rock
- Jacoténe – Stop Calling pop | soul
- Kadeus – Plan B
electronic | indie | pop | rock - Lauren Mayberry – Crocodile Tears electronic | pop
- mxmtoon – Passenger Side indie | pop
- Emily Ricks – Dead To Me indie | pop | rock
- Rikki – You (Tangarine cover) melancholic | pop
- La Sécurité – Détour
indie | pop | rock - Alexis Strum – Karma 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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Your ‘All-Time’ Favourites (2017-2022)
The last six years, starting in 2017, I posted 10 musical recommendations per week on this blog. A total of well over 3.000 tracks, mostly by upcoming – often female (fronted) – artists from all over the world. As I explained yesterday, Carte Blanche Music is entering a new era. One in which I’ll focus my efforts on my constantly updated Spotify playlist.
For sure, that doesn’t mean the blog is closing down. It’ll continue to be the home of my ‘best of’ collection (Werner’s Weekly) on Monday mornings (CET) and my favourite new track (the Carte Blanche Music Wildcard), every Wednesday morning. Also, I’ll post the latest additions to my playlist on Saturdays. For updates, follow me on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
No better way to round up the last six years than by publishing the Your ‘All-Time’ Favourites, a chart compiling the 500 most popular (as in best-read) Carte Blanche Music recommendations from 2017 to 2022. You’ll find the Top 25 below, but click through for the full list. My original recommendations are behind the links. If you’re an artist, don’t be shy and search (Ctrl+F) to find out if you made the list. You might be surprised…
Enjoy and thanks for joining the ride so far. Follow the Carte Blanche Music playlist (click ‘♥’ in Spotify) for many more recommendations to come!
Your ‘All-Time’ Favourites (2017-2022)
- Videoclub – Roi
- Wildcard (week 7): Drew Sycamore – 45 Fahrenheit Girl
- Aili x Transistorcake – Dansu
- Wildcard (week 13): Placebo – The Prodigal
- Super db – Wait For Me
- Wildcard (week 12): Shanguy – Toukassé
- Japanese Breakfast – Paprika
- Saint Motel – A Good Song Never Dies
- IBE – Table Of Fools
- Angèle – La Loi De Murphy
- Wildcard (week 22): Håkan Hellström – Alla Drömmar Är Uppfyllda
- Rick Astley – Every One Of Us
- Friedberg – Go Wild
- Wildcard (week 26): Videoclub – En Nuit
- Agnes – Here Comes The Night
- a-ha feat. Ingrid Helene Håvik – The Sun Always Shines On TV (MTV Unplugged)
- Angèle – Libre
- Temples – Paraphernalia
- Lola Le Lann – Portofino
- Pixey – Free To Live In Colour
- Eliza & The Delusionals – Just Exist
- Videoclub – Enfance 80
- Izzy Bizu (feat. Chris Martin) – Someone That Loves You ’19
- Mina Okabe – Miss Those Days
- Just – Walk Slow Smile More Read More →
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Tilly Louise – Baggy T-Shirt
Tilly Louise – Baggy T-Shirt
Tilly Louise, from Liverpool, is a self professed fan-girl of local acts like Zuzu and Pixey. Well, that makes two of us then. Furthermore, she takes inspiration from the likes of Paramore, Haim and Blondie. Over the years Louise played multiple sold out shows. Both headline gigs and opening for her heroes such as Cassia and Fickle Friends.
Baggy T-Shirt is only her fourth single, and I think it’s a banger. Followers may already know the song, for it’s been part of Louise’s setlist for some time now. It proved to be a fan-favourite way ahead of its formal release. This is in part thanks to it gaining popular buzz on TikTok, with fans creating fun videos to the track.
Self-produced and self-recorded, Baggy T-Shirt encapsulates everything great about indie guitar-pop, combining strong ‘90s nostalgia with alternative rock influence.
Follow Tilly Louise on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 12)
This is Werner’s Weekly, your compass to new music that matters, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Haley Ganis – Just Pretty
(Wildcard this week) - Iris Gold – Crushed Velvet
(Wildcard last week) - Beka – Don’t Call Me A Friend
- Brooke – That’s Rich
- Gorgeous – Divine
- Nazzereene – That’s How I Like It
- Tommy – Uninvited Attention
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: Arcade Fire, Fickle Friends, Skunk Anansie, and more.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 39)
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:
- Mazy – Flowers (Wildcard this week)
- Fickle Friends – Love You To Death (Wildcard last week)
- Andy Grammer – Damn It Feels Good To Be Me
- Bentle – Mondo
- Dubstar – Tectonic Plates
- Foxes – Sister Ray
- Placebo – Beautiful James
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: Louane, Oh Wonder, The Cool Quest, and more.
