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Shed Seven – Wonât Get Home Tonight
Late last year, Shed Seven released Instant Pleasures, their first album in 16 yearsâ time. Apparently, they recorded more than the 12 tracks on it, but instead of waiting another 16 years to put them out, they decided upon a Deluxe Edition of the album, adding ten tunes. Among them three remixes, three demos and four ânewâ songs.
Wonât Get Home Tonight is the best of the new bunch in my opinion, with its driving rhythm, â80s power chords, double guitar solo and staccato drum accents, all crammed into 3â34. Very likable!
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Shed Seven – People Will Talk
Formed in 1990, Shed Seven was part of the Britpop scene of the 1990âs. However, they had their finest moments in the second half of that century, just after the peak of the Britpop hype. Well-known hits include Speakeasy, Getting Better, Going For Gold and She Left Me On Friday. The band officially broke up in 2003, but reformed for a greatest hits tour in 2007.
Although Shed Seven continued to play shows around Britain, they only released a new studio album late in 2017. It contains exactly what the title promises: Instant Pleasures. People Will Talk is one of the final tracks on the album, saving the best for last. Itâs a great, sunny pop tune, thatâs already on BBC Radio 2âs playlist. Youâll probably hate me for it, but I canât help but hear The Nolansâ I’m In The Mood For Dancing in it. On the other hand, wasnât that a gem as well?
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Wernerâs Weekly (week 29)
This is Wernerâs 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 Potter – Good Time
(Wildcard this week) - Goodnight Sunrise – This Is Yours (To Make)
(Wildcard last week) - Birdy – Paradise Calling
- Dead Anyway – Donât Stop, Go!
- ellakate – Dry
- RenĂ©e Rapp – Talk Too Much
- Shed Seven – Kissing California
Listen to each of the tracks via the Wernerâs 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 28)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Beach Riot – Tell Me Iâm Wrong indie | rock
- Birdy – Paradise Calling pop
- Rye Catchers (feat. Nikki Simmons) – Creeping On Me indie | pop | rock
- Cyn – Where Do All The Diamonds Go? indie | pop
- Dead Anyway – Donât Stop, Go! indie | industrial | pop | spoken word
- Deadletter – Degenerate Inanimate indie | rock
- ellakate – Dry indie | pop | soul
- The Horn – Too Many Moments indie | pop
- Katherine Nora – Church Lane indie | pop
- RenĂ©e Rapp – Talk Too Much pop | rock
- Shed Seven – Kissing California indie | pop | rock
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
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Your âAll-Timeâ 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 â often female (fronted) – artists from all over the world. As I explained yesterday, Carte Blanche Music is entering a new era. One in which Iâll focus my efforts on my constantly updated Spotify playlist.
For sure, that doesnât mean the blog is closing down. Itâll continue to be the home of my âbest ofâ collection (Wernerâs Weekly) on Monday mornings (CET) and my favourite new track (the Carte Blanche Music Wildcard), every Wednesday morning. Also, Iâll 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 âAll-Timeâ Favourites, a chart compiling the 500 most popular (as in best-read) Carte Blanche Music recommendations from 2017 to 2022. Youâll find the Top 25 below, but click through for the full list. My original recommendations are behind the links. If youâre an artist, donât be shy and search (Ctrl+F) to find out if you made the list. You might be surprisedâŠ
Enjoy and thanks for joining the ride so far. Follow the Carte Blanche Music playlist (click ââ„â in Spotify) for many more recommendations to come!
Your âAll-Timeâ 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 – ToukassĂ©
- Japanese Breakfast – Paprika
- Saint Motel – A Good Song Never Dies
- IBE – Table Of Fools
- AngĂšle – La Loi De Murphy
- Wildcard (week 22): HĂ„kan Hellström – Alla Drömmar Ăr 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 HĂ„vik – The Sun Always Shines On TV (MTV Unplugged)
- AngĂšle – 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 →
single trackAlan Leach – Clouds Behind The Moon
Alan Leach – Clouds Behind The Moon
*SONG SNACK*
Former Shed Seven drummerâs beautiful debut solo single. For fans of The Divine Comedy.
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For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Your Favourites (2018)
Happy New Year from âall of usâ (thatâs me) at Carte Blanche Music! Like the past year, 2019 will undoubtedly be full of musical surprises. Especially when youâre open to let some new sounds into your life. And if you donât have the time to find them yourself, please let me help! Simply follow the Carte Blanche Music playlist on Spotify for daily updates of great new music, or bookmark this blog.
Carte Blanche Music doesnât intend to list all new releases. On the contrary: I make a strict selection and only give you the best new music, twice a day. Since last year, I restrict the number of recommendations to two per day: one around 9AM, and the other around 7PM (CET). This limitation provided for a 35% increase of the number of views per post in 2018.
This brings us to the question: which of my recommendations have been viewed the most throughout the year? In other words: what are your favourites of 2018? The answer is: a totally different set of songs than my year-end list, the Carte Blanche Music Top 2018 đ and thatâs totally fine!
Just a few statistics to kick things off:
- Your Favourites (2018) contain nine songs that were in Your Favourites (2017) already, and apparently stuck with you
- The full Top 3 of your list contains Dutch artists (in total, there are 21 tracks by acts from the Netherlands. Dutch fans are the best)
- 36% of the visitors are Dutch (like myself⊠Hi mom!)
- 19% of the visitors are Americans, 16% are from the UK; a total of 87 nationalities have come by in 2018 (dank je wel, thanks, merci, obrigado, danke schön, etc.!)
- 26% of all traffic comes from direct searches for specific titles, so Carte Blanche Music also seems to have an archive function
- Other important referrers are Facebook (22%), and Twitter (13%)
- Impressive: the relatively high position of Mokonoâs debut single Signs, the final Carte Blanche Music Wildcard of 2018
Okay, I can hear you thinking: âDonât bore us, get to the chorusâ, so here they are⊠Just two more things: all of these great songs (plus 1.000 more) are in my Carte Blanche Music 2018 playlist, and the links below direct you to my original recommendations for more information. Now, enjoy the music! Read More →
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Carte Blanche Music Top 2018
Ahead of your favourites among this yearâs Carte Blanche Music recommendations, which I publish on New Year’s Day, I round off 2018 with my personal choice.
The last year, I introduced you to 1104 great new songs via my container playlist Carte Blanche Music; over 65 hours of music. Exactly 500 of those translated into a written endorsement through this blog. In other words: only one out of each 11 suggestions (and one fifth of all of my posts) made it onto the Carte Blanche Music Top 2018.
Iâm very proud of this year-end list, as it differs largely from the majority of charts youâll find. Just a few statistics:
- 58% of the tracks feature female lead vocals (up from an already impressive 43% in the Carte Blanche Music Top 2017)
- 43% of the tracks are guitar-based (rock is dead? Think again!)
- Apart from British and American acts, my list contains artists from Australia, Norway, the Netherlands, Canada, Spain, France, Belgium, Ireland, Estonia, Germany, Sweden, Hungary and South Korea
- By consequence, youâll not only hear lyrics in English, but also in French, Hungarian, Spanish, Portuguese and Korean
- Needless to say, my year-end list contains no proper hits whatsoever đ
The Carte Blanche Music Top 2018 features 100 tracks by 100 different artists. As making that choice was hard enough, the songs are sorted alphabetically. Just use the shuffle button if you prefer another order đ.
I hope you enjoy listening to the list via the Spotify player. Meanwhile, you can read my original recommendations through the links below.
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Your favourites (April 2018)
April 2018 was the best month for Carte Blanche Music so far, in terms of the number of views. Thanks so much for your attention, itâs a huge motivation to keep servicing you with great new music!
As a Dutchman, apart from the overall result, Iâm very proud of your love for the Dutch artists I sneak into the blog. Apparently, my strict selection criteria pay off. No less than four out of the ten most read blogs (#1, #4, #7 and #10) in April are by artists from the Netherlands. Great to see Polish band Cute Mess in the Top 3 as well!
These are your ten favourites in full:
- Gruppo Sportivo – (This Is A) Normal Song
- James – Better Than That
- Cute Mess – Untied (WC)
- Inge van Calkar – Imaginary
- Shed Seven – Wonât Get Home Tonight
- Freak Power – Hear My Call
- Belle & The Beats – Deeper
- Priest – Lost Lions
- The Dark Light – She Likes It
- Your.Regular.Boy. – Crazyland
Meanwhile, my 2018 container playlist Carte Blanche Music, that is constantly updated to include the best new music of the year so far, contains almost 400 songs now, good for 22,5 hours of top tracks. Enjoy, and subscribe and/or share if you like!
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Wernerâs Weekly (week 18)
Itâs that time of the week again: here is my selection of the best tracks I recommended the last seven days. Wernerâs Weekly is your compass to the music that matters…
- Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson – Bad Dreams (Wildcard this week)
- Cute Mess – Untied (Wildcard last week)
- Bishop Briggs – Tempt My Trouble
- Deva Mahal – Snakes
- Elisa – Will We Be Strangers
- Shed Seven – Wonât Get Home Tonight
The links point you to more info about each track, and you can listen to all six of them via the Wernerâs Weekly player in the sidebar.
Besides these highlights, other standout track this week included great new music by Albin Lee Meldau, Amber Arcades, DMAâs, Efecto Mariposa, Lissie, and Morcheeba feat. Roots Manuva. I added those and more to the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist. I invite you to follow it, if you like these songs!
