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Wildcard (week 28):
Wildcard (week 28):
Frank Turner – Sister Rosetta
A stadium act in his home country Great Britain, Frank Turner has yet to reach the general public abroad. But his popularity is steadily growing through constant touring.
His new single Sister Rosetta is a very ‘90s-sounding guitar pop song (Fountains Of Wayne’s Stacy’s Mom springs to mind, but without the power chords) and an ode to Sister Rosetta Tharpe. A musical and spiritual example for artists like Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash, she was nicknamed the ‘Godmother of rock ‘n roll’.
The single precedes Turner’s new album No Man’s Land, which will count 13 songs: 12 about historically important women and one about his own mother. A release date has not yet been set, but what I can announce, is that Sister Rosetta by Frank Turner is this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard!
In the Wildcards 2019 playlist you can find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 16)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Belle & Sebastian – What Happened To You, Son?
indie | pop - Blackout The Arcade – IITYO indie | pop | rock
- David Bowie x Brian Eno x Nature – Get Real [Sounds Right Mix] pop | rock
- Rachel Chinouriri – It Is What It Is pop
- Fontaines DC – Starburster
indie | pop | rock - Dana Luna – Screw You indie | pop | rock
- Negramaro – Luna Piena
pop | rock - The Regime presents Pro Uno – The Mood
indie | soul | r&b - Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!
pop - Telenova – Power pop
- Frank Turner Teenage Joans – Girl From The Record Shop flag country=”au” size=”h13″] indie | rock
- The Vovos – Pink Milk indie | punk | rock
- Jamie xx feat. Honey Dijon – Baddy On The Floor dance | indie | pop
- Y.O.G.A. & Aviva – Rodeo indie | pop
- Zornik – The Middle
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 13)
Only the *best* new music from a guitar-heavy release week. Added to the playlist (alphabetically):
- ADMT – Weekend Offender indie | pop | rock
- The Awkward – Tiny Black Tattoo
indie | pop | rock - Olivia Booth – Wasted indie | pop | rock
- The Buoys – Subject A indie | rock
- Chasing Kites – Collide indie | pop | rock
- Cupnoodle – Bababababy
indie | pop - Cusker – He Can’t Tell Me indie | pop | rock
- Goddamn Wolves – Nowhere indie | rock
- Hozier – Too Sweet pop | soul
- Ethan Jegers – Milky Way indie | pop
- Longy – Prisoner indie | pop | rock
- Maxïmo Park – Favourite Songs indie | rock
- Rojjo – Todo Va Bien
indie | pop | rock - Slow Bones – Hiro dance | electronic | indie | instrumental | pop
- Stone Mile – Out There Somewhere indie | pop | rock
- Frank Turner – Letters indie | rock
- Twenty One Pilots – Next Semester pop | rock
- Vanderwolf – Colston Sleeps In Bristol Harbour 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 16)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Aistè – What’s Going On
indie | pop | soul - AJR – The Dumb Song pop
- Kita Alexander – Queen pop
- Liam Barrack – Bulletproof
indie | pop | rock - Foo Fighters – Rescued rock
- Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Council Skies pop | rock
- Alex Harry – Sometimes indie | pop
- Jealous Of The Birds – Beginner’s Luck pop | rock
- Jodie – I’m Not Your Fool indie | pop | rock | soul
- Kehli – Dead Body indie | pop
- Kingfisher – Stand Back In
– indie | pop | rock - The Lottery Winners feat. Frank Turner – Letter To Myself indie | pop | rock
- Parliamo – You’re An Animal indie | pop
- Pony – Sucker Punch indie | rock
- Niko Rubio – See Me Now pop
- Sofi Tukker – Jacaré dance | indie | latin | tropical
- Venice Heath – Different indie | pop | rock
- Wies – Blijf Weg indie | pop | rock
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
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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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Werner’s Weekly (week 22)
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:
- Hyphen Hyphen – Don’t Wait For Me
(Wildcard this week) - Laura Mac – Don’t Know What I’m Thinking (Wildcard last week)
- Alba August – Isabelle
- Krishna Jones – Eye Of The Storm
- Rews – Breathe Into Me
- Rina Sawayama – This Hell
- Sofia Portanet – Mi Amor
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: Frank Turner & KT Tunstall, Liam Gallagher, Suede, and more.
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Wildcard (week 38):
Wildcard (week 38):
Penfriend – The Only Way Out Is Through
Penfriend is the solo project of Bristol’s Laura Kidd. She’s not only an upcoming artist, but also a successful podcast maker. In the first series of her podcast Attention Engineer, she interviewed guests like Belly’s Tanya Donelly, Frank Turner, Charlotte Hatherley, Public Service Broadcasting, and Tom Robinson. It shot to #10 in the Apple Podcasts top music shows on launch. Series 2 will launch on 7 October.
Following Everything Looks Normal In The Sunshine, The Only Way Out Is Through is only Penfriend’s second release. Sonically, her new single is a nod to the powerpop that ruled the airwaves in the early 1990s. Its grungy guitars give it a rock touch, but it’s sugar-coated by an icy synth melody. Lyrically, Penfriend delivers the message of hope and determination that we all need after a tough six months.
She says: “The choice to release music in a universally dark time isn’t one I take lightly. The Only Way Out Is Through is the most resonant and useful song I have to offer right now, a rescue raft for whoever needs one. That’s what this song is for me.”
The Only Way Out Is Through by Penfriend is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard!
In the Wildcards 2020 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
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Rhea – Under My Skin
Clap your hands and stamp your feet, Rhea is in town. Under My Skin is the second single off their EP Lust For Life Pt. II (which, unsurprisingly, follows Pt. I). They don’t exactly leave us guessing for their influences. After its opening handclaps, the track starts with a Marilyn Manson-like riff, while the acoustic-leaning pre-chorus echoes Queen. As a whole, the band erects an impressive wall of glamrock guitars, which combines the best elements of Royal Blood and Muse. Although it comes to a close within three minutes, it’s a track with plenty variation, putting the listener on the wrong track more than once.
Rhea is a Belgian band with international ambition and potential, partly thanks to producer Alex Newport (Bloc Party, Frank Turner). Their EP’s, recorded in studios across Los Angeles, Brighton and Belgium, are preludes to their upcoming debut album.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Carte Blanche Music Top 2019
Ahead of your favourites among this year’s Carte Blanche Music recommendations, which I publish on New Year’s Day, I round off 2019 with my personal choices.
The last year, I introduced you to 979 great new songs via my container playlist Carte Blanche Music; almost 57 hours of music. Exactly 500 of those translated into a written endorsement through this blog. In other words: only one out of each 10 suggestions (and one fifth of all of my posts) made it onto the Carte Blanche Music Top 2019.
Just like the recommendations you can find here every day, this year-end list differs largely from the majority of charts you’ll find. The Top 100 below is filled with the finest pop and rock; and a much larger percentage of rock than you’ll hear on the radio. Most tracks were independently released by upcoming artists from all over the world, and feature female vocals. Just a few statistics:
- 60% of the tracks are sung by women (up from an already impressive 58% in the Carte Blanche Music Top 2018)
- 53% of the tracks is guitar-based (10% more than last year)
- Apart from British and American acts, my list contains artists from Australia (14 of them!), France (9), Canada (5), the Netherlands (5), Norway (4), Ireland (3), Belgium (3), Spain (2), Sweden (2), Denmark (2), Germany (1), Israel (1) and Brazil (1)
- As a result, you’ll not only hear lyrics in English, but also in French, Spanish and Swedish
- Apart from Dua Lipa and Lizzo, you won’t find any hits in this chart. It’s a great way to discover artists, some of which I expect to break through in the years to come
The Carte Blanche Music Top 2019 features 100 tracks. You can listen to them via the Spotify player. As compiling the list was hard enough, the songs are sorted alphabetically. Just use the shuffle button if you prefer another order 😉.
Meanwhile, you can read my original recommendations through the links below.
- Alex Lahey – Isabella (*)
- Ali Barter – January
- Alice Merton – Learn To Live
- The Allergies feat. Andy Cooper – 2 Much!
- boy pablo – 50 Souls And A Discobowl (WC)
- Alphabeat – Shadows
- Baker Grace – Sad Summer (WC)
- Barrie – Drag
- Barry Moore – The Tide (WC)
- beabadoobee – She Plays Bass (WC)
- Billie Louise – Like Machines (WC)
- The Bird & The Bee (feat. Beck) – Hot For Teacher
- Bishop Briggs – Champion
- The Black Keys – Shine A Little Light
- boy pablo – 50 Souls And A Discobowl (WC)
- Calby – The Everyday Bit
- Call Me Loop – Self Love (WC)
- Charli XCX feat. Christine & The Queens – Gone
- Circa Waves – Jacqueline
- Citizen Kay – Ego
- Clara Luciani – Ma Soeur
- Client Liaison – The Real Thing
- Con Brio & Lyrics Born – Mistakes
- Corine – Je Danse Le Mia
- Countless Numbers – Twice As Hard (WC)
- Cyn – Terrible Ideas
- Deacon Blue – City Of Love (WC)
- Devon – I Don’t Want 2 B Ur Friend (WC)
- Don’t Bring Stacey – Changed My Hair
- Dua Lipa – Don’t Start Now
- Eliza & The Delusionals – Just Exist
- Elliphant – To The End
- Enter Shikari – Stop The Clocks
- Evil Edna – Isle Of Dogs
- Field Music – Only In A Man’s World
- Fitz & The Tantrums – I Just Wanna Shine
- Frank Turner – Sister Rosetta (WC)
- Gemme – Sweet Harmony
- Georgia – About Work The Dancefloor (WC)
- Georgia – Never Let You Go (WC)
- Grace Lightman – Repair Repair [2019 Version]
- Grace Potter (feat. Lucius) – Back To Me
- Halie – Good Kids (WC)
- Hayley Mary – The Piss, The Perfume
- Hazel English – Shaking
- Hemliga Klubben – Asshole
- IBE – Table Of Fools
- Inge van Calkar – Get Out Of My Way
- Inhaler – My Honest Face
- Jaguar Jonze – Kill Me With Your Love
- Jain – Gloria (WC)
- Jara – Don’t Drop The Funk
- Jay Som – Superbike (WC)
- Jealous Of The Birds – Blue Eyes
- Jonas Brøg – That Feeling
- Jon Tessier – For A Little Eye Candy (WC)
- Julie Zenatti – Tout Est Plus Pop (WC)
- Kakkmaddafakka – Baby (WC)
- K.Flay – Sister (WC)
- Lauran Hibberd – Hoochie
- Lily Moore – Over You
- Lizzo – Good As Hell / Remix feat. Ariana Grande (WC)
- Lizzo – Juice (WC)
- Lola Marsh – Echoes
- Lorelei – Skylight
- Lucy Spraggan – Today Was A Good Day
- Lush Puppy – Ms. Grey (WC)
- Madame Psychosis – Kapow
- Maggie Lindemann – Friends Go / Remix feat. Travis Barker (WC)
- Mat Kerekes – Diamonds
- Mélodie Lauret – 23h28 (WC)
- Middle Kids – Beliefs And Prayers
- Miki Núñez – Celébrate (WC)
- Nancie Schipper – Take Out The Trash
- Nicolah – Holiday (WC)
- Nikki’s Wives – Real Girl
- Owl Eyes – You And I / Le Soleil
- Palaye Royale – Hang On To Yourself (WC)
- Pet Shop Boys – What Are We Going To Do About The Rich? (*)
- Ride – Jump Jet
- Sebu – The Secret Is Out [Lucas Vidal Arrangement] (WC)
- Shanguy – Toukassé (WC)
- Sheila & The Kit – Mike (WC)
- Sigrid – Don’t Feel Like Crying (WC)
- Skunk Anansie – What You Do For Love
- Skylar Grey – Shame On You
- Sofía Ellar – La Revolución
- Spacey Jane – Head Cold
- Stats – The Family Business (WC)
- Suns Up – Just Because (WC)
- Superbird – Cola Bottle Fizz
- Tape Toy – Sad Girl (WC)
- Terouz – Outstanding (WC)
- The Heavy – Fighting For The Same Thing (WC)
- The Heavy – Last Man Standing
- The Howl & The Hum – Hall Of Fame
- The Howl & The Hum – Human Contact (WC)
- The Mowgli’s – Fighting With Yourself (WC)
- Videoclub – En Nuit (WC)
- Zuzu – Get Off [2019 Version]
(WC) ex Carte Blanche Music Wildcard
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The Lottery Winners – Little Things
The Lottery Winners – Little Things
2019 started with a bang, with The Lottery Winners’ That’s Not Entertainment as a (belated) Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. And now, the band have another go at the top prize. Little Things is the third single to be released ahead of their self-titled debut album, which is due on 13 March 2020.
The Lottery Winners is an album the band have spent the last two years recording tracks for, after being discovered by music industry legend Seymour Stein. You may know some of the other artists he signed, like a certain Madonna, and bands called The Ramones and Talking Heads (to name but a few). The album was produced by Tristem Ivemy (Frank Turner, The Holloways) and mastered at Abbey Road.
“This was a difficult song for me to write. It’s quite a sad one”, reflects frontman Thom Rylance. “It’s amazing how everything changes when you lose someone. Things become a lot more important. It does have a catchy chorus, and some nice ‘heys’ though, so don’t worry.”
This may very well be the track for The Lottery Winners to win them the jackpot. As they predicted themselves: ‘there’s nothing bigger than the little things’.
Recommended as well:
The Lottery Winners – That’s Not Entertainment
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
