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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 26)
Not all, but only the best new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- The Aces – You Got Me
indie | pop - Rye Catchers (feat. Drew Tyler) – Prisoner indie | pop | rock
- Disco Mary – Proof
indie | pop | rock - Efecto Pasillo & Maruja Limón – Qué Será De Mí
pop | latin - Emmit Fenn feat. Elle Eyre – You Got Me dance | drum & bass | indie | pop
- Franz Ferdinand feat. Johnny Marr – Build It Up indie | pop | rock
- Flo Gallop – Famous indie | pop | rock
- Lockyer Boys – Uh Huh! indie | pop | rock
- Seafret & KT Tunstall – Five More Seconds indie | pop | rock
- Vistas – Next Year indie | rock
- The Wild Things – Knock Down, Drag Out indie | rock
- Yukon Blonde – Adore You
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 47)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Adé – Dissimule
indie | pop | rock - The Bad Actors – Lord Of The Flies indie | pop | rock
- Franz Ferdinand – Night Or Day indie | pop | rock
- The Haunted Youth – In My Head
indie | rock - The Indie Pea – Snapshots Of Us indie | pop | rock
- Jet City Sports Club – Mini Skirt
indie | pop - Krezip & Danny Vera – It All Means Nothing (You’re Not Here Now)
christmas | pop - Krooked Tongue – Ember Mile indie | rock
- Päter – Waves indie | pop
- Simpleton – Clear My Mind 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 38)
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:
- Francis On My Mind – Somebody Else But Me
(Wildcard this week) - Anna Lille – Late To The Party
(Wildcard last week) - Eosine – Digitaline
- Franz Ferdinand – Audacious
- Illy – Good Life
- Sløtface – I Used To Be A Real Piece Of Shit
- Emma Steinbakken – Boy
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 37)
A mixed bag… The very best new music in a crazy release week. Added to the playlist (alphabetically):
- Adé – Forts indie | pop | rock
- Grace Angelique – Out Of This World indie | pop | rock
- Bastille – Blue Sky And The Painter pop
- Grace Davies – A Wonderful, Boring, Normal Life indie | melancholic | pop
- Lucy Daydream – Jumper (Third Eye Blind cover) indie | pop
- DeWolff – In Love indie | rock | soul
- Eosine – Digitaline indie | rock
- Franz Ferdinand – Audacious indie | pop | rock
- Mercer Henderson – Lock Me Up indie | pop
- Illy – Good Life indie | pop
- Anish Kumar – She Dances dance | indie | pop
- Rachèl Louise – Busy indie | pop
- Marble Sounds – If You Would Prove Me Wrong Now indie | pop | rock
- Kenzy Peach – I Think I Get It Now indie | pop | rock
- Rhea – Better Than God indie | rock
- Sløtface – I Used To Be A Real Piece Of Shit indie | rock
- Meg Smith – Poltergeist electronic | indie | pop
- Emma Steinbakken – Boy electronic | indie | pop
- The Superjesus – Something Special indie | rock
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.
Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators
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Wildcard (week 20):
Wildcard (week 20):
Sparks – Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is
This week sees the glorious comeback of some ‘old’ favourites, like Amanda Marshall, Queens Of The Stone Age and Tenacious D. And they don’t return with half-baked wannabe tracks. No, they provide us with some of the week’s best new music. Top of the bill, in that respect, are Sparks. Their new single has the unmistakable Sparks stamp on it. However, in 2023 – over 56(!!!) years after brothers Ron and Russell Mael made their first recordings as Urban Renewal Project – they sound as fresh as ever.
Yes, you read that well. The band ultimately known as Sparks first entered the studio in January 1967. They were soon discovered by Todd Rundgren and, sorry if this sounds lazy, ‘the rest is history’. Despite regularly changing styles, their songs are immediately recognizable. The same goes for their visual representations throughout the years. For almost six decades now, Sparks have been at the forefront of modern, artful pop music.
Their 26th studio album The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte (out on 26 May) was already preceded by its title track and Veronica Lake. But single #3, Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is, is the most accessible track off it so far. A hi-NRG song with upbeat drums, guitars, Ron’s subtle piano and Russell’s authentic vocals, which could have been recorded when they formed FFS, with Scottish band Franz Ferdinand. Let me tell you it’s beyond good, and despite the tune’s title, you can trust me on this one.
Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is by Sparks 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:
Hippopotamus
Follow the duo on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify
In the Wildcards 2023 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
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Wildcard (week 44):
Wildcard (week 44):
Stone – Money (Hope Ain’t Gone)
Stone are the latest of an impressive row of exciting bands from Liverpool. The four-piece, led by Fin Power (son of The La’s and Cast’s John Power), are newly signed to major label Polydor. They call themselves ‘the underground voice for the lost youth’.
After a great summer which saw them supporting Sam Fender and Inhaler, they’re currently on tour with The Wombats. All of this will reach a climax with the release of their debut EP Punkadonk on 18 November. It was produced by the legendary Rich Costey, who worked with Muse, Rage Against The Machine, P!nk, My Chemical Romance, Franz Ferdinand, New Order, Weezer, Foo Fighters, Charli XCX, Arctic Monkeys and zillions of other artists.
Money (Hope Ain’t Gone) is Stone’s anthemic new single. Not once, but twice it slows down for a stadium-ready section, which leads up to an equally epic call-and-response part. This is as fun as rock can get. The track is their first that was co-written by Power and Elliot Gill. The former says about that: “It takes from both of our lives and the struggles we’ve faced. It’s about the hope for a better future and the struggles growing up in the Gen Z.”
Stone’s fiery new single Money (Hope Ain’t Gone) is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. That means it’ll feature prominently at the top of the blog for a whole week.
Follow Stone on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify
In the Wildcards 2022 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 5)
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:
- Leony – Remedy
(Wildcard this week) - Nile Marr – Only Time Can Break Your Heart (Wildcard last week)
- Caroline & Claude – It’s Not That Bad
- Ederlezi – Run, Run, Run
- Ellis Newman – Leaving The Party
- Mitski – Love Me More
- Sarpa Salpa – Somebody
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: Bloc Party, Charli XCX feat. Rina Sawayama, Franz Ferdinand, George Ezra, Selah Sue, and more.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 45)
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:
- Smith & Thell – Pixie’s Parasol (Wildcard this week)
- Hope Tala – Tiptoeing (Wildcard last week)
- ella jane – Calling Card
- Mike Posner – Amor Fati
- Päter – Obstinate Brain
- Pattern Pusher – Another Girl
- Salt Ashes – Lucy
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: Foxes, Franz Ferdinand, Paul Weller, and more.
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Teenage Dads – Piano Girl
Teenage Dads – Piano Girl
Teenage Dads are an Australian four-piece, influenced by the likes of Phoenix, The Strokes and Brian Wilson. But sure to be loved by fans of Franz Ferdinand and The Killers as well.
Last week, the quartet released their new EP Club Echo. It features eight tracks, including their latest singles Cheerleader and Thank You For The Honey, Honey.
New single Piano Girl is on it too, even twice. This was the first song guitarist Connor McLaughlin wrote for the EP, but his initial demo was a grungier pop-rock cut. The band re-created this version in the studio, and the resulting rendition, the Alternate Version, appears as a bonus track on the EP. The single version however, self-produced as always, is a much more radio-friendly affair.
Recommended as well:
Teenage Dads – Thank You For The Honey, Honey
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For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Sophie Hunger – Everything Is Good
Sophie Hunger is a Swiss-born, Berlin-based singer, multi-instrumentalist and film composer. 28 August, she’ll release her seventh studio album Halluzinationen. Just like its predecessor Molecules, it was produced by Dan Carey (Franz Ferdinand, Bat For Lashes). The album was captured in Abbey Road, in a very special way. Over the course of two days, Hunger and her band played the entire album six times in live, continuous takes. The album was compiled out of these six takes. She identifies this approach as ‘full risk’, but it gave the album a vulnerability and intimacy that would have not been possible any other way.
Everything Is Good is the album’s new single. A great upbeat synth-pop track with an original twist, that sounds like a video game soundtrack. The song’s name is taken from a design by British artist David Shrigley. A big ‘thumbs up’ for this tune!
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
