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single trackThe Vices – Strange Again
The Vices – Strange Again
2021 was a good year for The Vices. The youthful band from the northern Dutch town of Groningen released their debut album Looking For Faces. Both critics, the media and the public loved it, and rightfully so.
Now, it’s time for a new single, Strange Again, which marks the start of new era. Front man Floris van Luijtelaar explains: “We’re changing as persons, and playing from the heart as best friends, the music changes with us. It’ll always have this childlike energy, but Strange Again is our first track with a more personal and grown-up sound.” He continues to say it’s a song about restlessness. “Restlessness from the ongoing urge to keep looking for the unknown. Pretty exhausting on the one hand, but it can also result in nice and spontaneous situations you wouldn’t have experienced otherwise.”
Strange Again is an energetic song that mixes indie-pop, surf music and rock. This time however, The Vices sound tighter than ever. Can’t wait for their sophomore album At Least I Heard ‘em Saying, which is planned for release after the summer.
Recommended as well:
Looking For Faces
In And Out
Life Grows
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For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
single trackThe Vices – Looking For Faces
The Vices – Looking For Faces
Dutch band The Vices are gaining momentum in their home country. To prevent the attention from slacking, they’re quick to follow up their most recent single. Hot on the heels of In And Out, they now release Looking For Faces. A fierce and sharp rock song, which opens with a drum beat that sounds like a future sample staple. What follows is the band’s trademark mix of indie-pop and garage-rock, stuffed with catchy melodies.
Looking For Faces is the title track off the band’s first full album, out on 12 March. Frontman Floris van Luijtelaar says of their debut: “Looking For Faces is about finding your own face, and the journey that comes with it. The album is like a diary of a person observing life. It consists of raw thoughts and honest conversations that never lead to an easy solution. But are there answers at all in a world that keeps changing? Expect sharp contradictions, addiction in the broadest sense, and deep friendship, which might as well be the answer to all questions.”
Recommended as well:
The Vices – In And Out
The Vices – Life Grows
Follow The Vices on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
single trackThe Vices – In And Out
The Vices – In And Out
To international music lovers, the Northern Dutch city of Groningen is probably best-known for its yearly showcase festival ESNS. One of the reasons for the organisers to choose Groningen for their event, was its versatile climate for music. Inge van Calkar and The Vices are only two recent acts to hail from the city.
The Vices are an indie pop-rock band, who hit the ground running in 2019. That year only, they supported Yungblud and Feeder, played ESNS (obviously) and 25 shows as part of traveling festival Popronde. Their music is best described as the love child of Cage The Elephant and The Strokes, with a hint of surf.
So far, the band released two EP’s: Life Grows and Good Morning City, Now Let Me Sleep…, but their debut album is on its way. Looking For Faces is set to be released on 12 March 2021, but lead single In And Out is out now. Catchy and tuneful, it’s a tasty mix of indie-pop, surf and guitar-rock. Talking about tasty… to promote the song, they brewed their own In And Out Blond Beer. Cheers!
Recommended as well:
The Vices – Life Grows
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single trackThe Vices – Life Grows
The Vices – Life Grows
Only nine months after changing their name from Ten Years After, The Vices give birth to their debut EP. Life Grows will see the light on 20 September. They wrote the songs in between their first ever shows supporting Yungblud, a gig at Eurosonic and a UK tour. The band make an accessible mix of surf, rock and garage, a bit like The Strokes.
Title track Life Grows may sound like a happy tune, but The Vices went deep for this one. Frontman Floris van Luijtelaar explains: “Life in the city, where everything you do and say is seen and heard, can be confusing and frustrating. They always try to tell you if it’s right or wrong, ain’t there nothing in between? Sometimes self-reflection is being blocked by all the noise of others’ opinions….”
Life Grows’ was written in a night of insecurity, where Van Luijtelaar realised that as long as you’re behind your own decisions, it doesn’t matter what everyone else thinks.
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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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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 3)
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:
- Iris Gold – Piece Of Mine
(Wildcard this week) - Superbird – Elevation Airways (Wildcard last week)
- Goodbye June – Stand And Deliver
- Karin Simonian – Beat On My Heart
- Spence Paull – When I’m Lonely
- The Vices – Strange Again
- Who Parked The Car – Rock Climbing
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: Eddie Vedder, Placebo, Richard Ashcroft, White Lies, The Wombats and more.
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Your Favourites (2021)
My container playlist Carte Blanche Music 2021 doesn’t only include all of the 998 songs I recommended last year. It also holds the 100 best tracks in my opinion, the Carte Blanche Music Top 2021, which I published last week. But that’s only my selection. Isn’t it more interesting to see which of my recommendations you read the most? In other words: which of them were Your Favourites in 2021?
Apparently, the Carte Blanche Music blog has a strong archive function. A quarter of the Top 100 below consists of blog posts from earlier years, which you find via search engines. ‘Google is your friend’, as they say… Also, I think it’s wonderful to see young and upcoming artists like Angèle, Aili x Transistorcake, Mina Okabe, Eyjaa and Videoclub having more than one track amongst your favourites. These are acts to keep an extra keen eye on!
Thank you for being such loyal visitors of Carte Blanche Music. Follow me on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram and you won’t miss a single recommendation. You’ll find all of these brand-new songs and more in my daily updated Spotify playlist.
And now, enjoy last year’s greatest chart of all: Your Favourites 2021!
- Drew Sycamore – 45 Fahrenheit Girl (WC)
- Aili x Transistorcake – Dansu (2020)
- Super db – Wait For Me
- Japanese Breakfast – Paprika
- Just – Walk Slow Smile More
- The Blue Stones – One By One
- Saint Motel – A Good Song Never Dies (2020)
- Mina Okabe – Miss Those Days
- Håkan Hellström – Alla Drömmar Är Uppfyllda (2020) (WC)
- Agnes – Here Comes The Night
- Pixey – Free To Live In Colour (2020)
- Laura Mvula – Got Me
- Angèle – La Loi De Murphy (2017)
- Temples – Paraphernalia (2020)
- Who – Hey! Get Out The Way (WC)
- Julietta – Not Today
- Lola Le Lann – Portofino (2020)
- a-ha feat. Ingrid Helene Håvik – The Sun Always Shines On TV (MTV Unplugged) (2019)
- Eyjaa – Don’t Forget About Me
- Indochine x Christine & The Queens – 3Sex (2020)
- Me & My Toothbrush – Funking Around (2020)
- Jealous Of The Birds – Something Holy (2020)
- Saint Motel – Preach (2020)
- Izo FitzRoy – Red Line (2020) (WC)
- Videoclub – Enfance 80 (2020)
- Therapie Taxi – Eté 90
- Christopher – Fall So Hard
- Isaac Dunbar – Fan Behavior
- Mina Okabe – Walk Away
- Alfie Templeman – Things I Thought Were Mine (2020)
- Danilo – Bringing It Back
- Negramaro – Ora Ti Canto Il Mare
- Videoclub – En Nuit (2019) (WC)
- Good Health Good Wealth – Guinness
- Ivan & The Parazol – Mást Vártam
- Placebo – Beautiful James
- Super-Hi x Neeka – Following The Sun
- Trunky Juno – Daddy’s Gone For Cigarettes
- Shanguy – Toukassé (2019) (WC)
- Del Amitri – Close Your Eyes And Think Of England
- Raffaella – Ballerina (2019)
- Ali Barter – You Get In My Way
- The Roop – Discoteque
- Izzy Bizu (feat. Chris Martin) – Someone That Loves You ’19 (2019)
- Fear Of Tigers – Tiger Blood
- Grand Corps Malade – Pas Essentiel (WC)
- Olivia – Can’t Break A Broken Heart
- The Bamboos – Ride On Time
- Angèle – Balance Ton Quoi (2019)
- The Vices – In And Out (2020)
- The Academic – Not Your Summer
- Gotts Street Park feat. Flikka – Favourite Kind Of Girl (2020)
- Aili x Transistorcake – Pari Pari
- Mélodie Lauret – À Quoi Tu Penses Quand Tu M’adores ? (2020)
- Eyjaa – The Wrecking Crew
- Dubstar – Tectonic Plates
- Tom Jones – Talking Reality Television Blues (WC)
- AKA George – Manic Machine
- You Am I – The Waterboy
- Grand Corps Malade – Des Gens Beaux
- The Vices – Looking For Faces
- Kuzko – My Mama Says
- Alessia Cara & The Warning – Enter Sandman
- L U – Liquid Gold
- Ruby Waters – Blow
- IBE – Table Of Fools (2019)
- Banji – Listen
- Moby feat. Gregory Porter & Amythyst Kiah – Natural Blues [Reprise Version]
- Rori – The Same Way
- Gracie Abrams – Friend
- Said The Whale – Honey Lungs
- Clara Luciani – Respire Encore (WC)
- Papooz – Theatrical State Of Mind (2019)
- Lou Hayter – Time Out Of Mind
- Mia Nicolai – People Pleaser
- Why Don’t We – Slow Down
- Miss Machine – Regarder Les Choses
- Sitting On Stacy – Chest Hair
- Devon – Warning Signs
- Videoclub – Roi
- Kristiane – Wish I Could Be Your Girl (2020)
- Laura Mac – Garage Full Of Dreams (WC)
- Dopha – The Game (2020)
- Maty Noyes – New Friends
- Bugs – Old Youth Feeling
- Kailee Morgue – This Is Why I’m Hot
- Calby – Burnout (2019)
- Dry Cleaning – Scratchcard Lanyard
- Our Lady Peace (feat. Pussy Riot) – Stop Making Stupid People Famous
- Eelke – Too Much Too Soon
- Troi Irons – She Loves Me Not
- Niko Rubio – Bed
- Aly & AJ – Don’t Need Nothing
- Luz – Counting Houses
- Son Mieux – 1992
- Valeras – Rita
- Amen Mustang – (The Shit You Say) When You’re High
- Angèle – Libre (*)
- Milo – What’s The Matter
- The Hisunz – CNTRDCTNS
(WC) ex Carte Blanche Music Wildcard
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Your favourites (January 2021)
Below, you can find all 10 of Your Favourites in the month of January; my recommendations that you read the most. Great choices!
The links bring you directly to the original posts. Each of them features a player that allows you to listen to the track via the platform of your choice. Enjoy!
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Werner’s Weekly (week 3)
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:
- Black Honey – Believer (Wildcard this week)
- Philippine – Bah Non. (Wildcard last week)
- Cold Years (feat. RR Gospel Choir) – Good As Hell
- Crooked Steps – Catherine
- Declan McKenna – Rapture
- Lucy Spraggan – Animal
- The Vices – Looking For Faces
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: Biffy Clyro, The Veronicas, Foo Fighters, Tom Jones, Maxïmo Park, and more.
