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The Slow Readers Club – On The TV
Last May, Manchester four-piece The Slow Readers Club released their third studio album Build A Tower on multiple formats, causing it to become a hit in both the physical album chart, the vinyl chart, and even the cassette chart. On The TV is the latest single to be taken off it.
Singer Aaron Starkie says of the track: “On The TV is a song about feeling a sense of discomfort, disassociation and extreme anxiety at the state of the modern world. It’s a scream against everything from caged kids at the Mexican border to the rise of nationalism in the UK and US. In the verses I seek solace in family and ask my parents for guidance. It also has a great riff.“
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Werner’s Weekly (week 2)
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:
- Ainsley Costello – Cherry On Top
(Wildcard this week) - Karin Simonian – Fade Out (Wildcard last week)
- Adele – Can I Get It
- Mckenna Grace – Ugly Crier
- Daimy Lotus – 1st Class D-Bag
- The Slow Readers Club – Modernise
- The Veils – Time
Listen to each of the tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player below.
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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 1)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added this week (alphabetically):
- Adele – Can I Get It pop
- Ilse DeLange – Drown Us Out pop
- DeWolff – Night Train indie | rock
- Jimmy Diamond – In The Dark indie | pop | rock
- Futureworld Orchestra – All Over indie | pop
- Mckenna Grace – Ugly Crier indie | pop | rock
- Hyphen Hyphen – Own God
pop - Leony – Somewhere In Between
electronic | indie | pop - Daimy Lotus – 1st Class D-Bag indie | pop | rock
- Notbrax – Drowning In The Thought Of You indie | pop
- Sera – Head Held High pop
- The Slow Readers Club – Modernise electronic | indie | pop | rock
- The Trusted – Terrible Fight indie | pop | rock
- The Veils – Time indie | melancholic | pop
- The Vices – Never Had To Know indie | pop
- We Are Scientists – Settled Accounts funk | indie | pop | rock
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
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Carte Blanche Music Top 2018
Ahead of your favourites among this year’s 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.
I’m very proud of this year-end list, as it differs largely from the majority of charts you’ll 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, you’ll 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 😉
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 😉.
I hope you enjoy listening to the list via the Spotify player. Meanwhile, you can read my original recommendations through the links below.
