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Wildcard (week 19):
Tom Grennan – How Does It Feel
Tom Grennan’s collaborations with dance artists are sure fire hits. His 2016 single with Chase & Status, All Goes Wrong, became his big break, while By Your Side (with Calvin Harris) was a pan-European hit. However, I personally like his own (pop) singles better. His new one is another great example why.
How Does It Feel is the third single to be released ahead of Grennan’s upcoming third album. The longplayer, What Ifs And Maybes, will be out on 16 June. The British singer and songwriter said about the record: “I want (people) to feel they have no stress and no worries when they’re listening to these songs. So I made that conscious decision to write some up-tempo songs that can live in a party world.”
New single How Does It Feel is a good example. Speaking about the track, he explained: “This song is a reflection of a moment in my life when I realised I had let something unreal slip. It’s a reflection on the excitement that comes when you know you have a chance to rebuild. It’s exciting, fun, and gives you the energy to want to get up and do what you believe in!”
With its upbeat drums, sunny guitar sound and catchy lyrics, How Does It Feel by Tom Grennan is a contender for the Summer Song of 2023 trophy.
For starters, it’s 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:
Sober
Found What I’ve Been Looking For
Follow Tom Grennan 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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Tom Grennan – Sober
Things could’ve turned out quite differently for Tom Grennan. He would probably have been a successful football player, if he hadn’t made a last minute decision to pursue a career in music instead.
Lucky for us, Chase & Status got the ball rolling by asking Grennan to provide vocals for their tune All Goes Wrong. Since then, he’s been a regular visitor of the European Border Breakers Charts with his own songs, Found What I’ve Been Looking For being his biggest hit to date.
But I think this could all change with his new single. Sober is another great tune to showcase his powerful voice, and adds a playful string arrangement to increase this effect.
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Tom Grennan – Found What I’ve Been Looking For
As a teenager, Tom Grennan had a promising football career. He played for Luton Town, Northampton Town, Aston Villa and Stevenage, and was close to playing over in the United States. But he made a last-minute decision not to do so, and instead pursue a career in music. He moved from Bedford to London for university, and started gigging around London with his acoustic guitar.
Grennan first found fame as the guest vocalist on Chase & Status’s All Goes Wrong. Shortly afterwards he showcased his love of blues and soul on his debut EP Something In The Water. Next up is his new single Found What I’ve Been Looking For, another great vehicle for his raspy, emotive vocals.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 21)
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:
- Sparks – Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is
(Wildcard this week) - Tom Grennan – How Does It Feel
(Wildcard last week) - Altin Gün – Doktor Civanım
- Busby Marou – Conversation
- Georgia Lines – Monopoly
- Liza Anne – Cheerleader
- psykhi – Dyed In Wool
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.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 20)
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:
- Tom Grennan – How Does It Feel (Wildcard this week)
- Only The Poets – Jump! (Wildcard last week)
- Victoria Anthony – New Disaster
- Ellur – Anywhere
- Loi – News
- Amanda Marshall – Dawgcatcher
- 26fix – Stone Killer
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.
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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 18)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- a balladeer – The Birds Of Van Gogh indie | pop
- The Beaches – Blame Brett indie | pop | rock
- Tash Blake – Inject Me dance | indie | rock
- Blusher – Backbone electronic | pop
- Cheap Date – Way That You Love indie | pop
- Cold Equations – Identity Crisis indie | rock
- The Flints – Same Thing Every Day indie | pop | rock
- flowerkid – Diss And Disappoint pop
- Abbey Frances – These Hearts indie | pop
- Tom Grennan – How Does It Feel pop
- Fiona Harren – Go Getter indie | pop | rock
- The Horn – Another Way indie | pop | rock
- Harriet Jaxxon – Story Of Women dance | drum & bass | indie | spoken word
- Katanak – Lights Of Tokyo indie | pop | rock
- Kick Pistol – Mechanical Heart indie | rock
- Aston Merrygold – Sweat indie | pop
- MisterWives – Nosebleed electronic | indie | pop
- Luna Morgenstern – Jealous drum & bass | electronic | indie | pop
- Naytiive – SummerSoul funk | indie | rock | soul
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 11)
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:
- Monowhales – He Said/She Said (I Wait) (Wildcard this week)
- Kalie Shorr – Amy (Wildcard last week)
- Ali Barter – You Get In My Way
- Eyjaa – Don’t Forget About Me
- Louis & The Shakes – How Badly Do You Want It?
- Lucy Daydream – Fast Forward
- Penfriend – Cancel Your Hopes
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: Dua Lipa, London Grammar, Tom Grennan, and more.
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Wildcard (week 47):
Joel Culpepper – WAR
Now this is a sound we haven’t heard in the charts for way too long: funky soul. Hopefully, Joel Culpepper can undo that injustice. The south-east London native just announced his debut album, with the rather brilliant title Sgt. Culpepper, for next year.
The long-player is preceded by a double A-sided single: Return/WAR. As is so often the case, the AA-side is my favourite. WAR is an upbeat track in the best James Brown tradition. For the youngsters among you, who may think: James who? Think Learnalilgivinandlovin by Gotye.
Addressing social and political undertones, WAR details Culpepper’s frustration with the hostile environment towards marginalised groups, expressing that ‘enough is enough’. WAR is an acronym for Without Any Restraint. The track was co-written by two musical heavy-weights. Jimmy Hogarth (who worked with Amy Winehouse, Sia, Tom Grennan, Paolo Nutini, Duffy, and many more) and Shawn Lee (a very prolific artist who worked with the likes of Lana Del Rey, Amy Winehouse, Alicia Keys, and is half of Young Gun Silver Fox).
Joel Culpepper. What is it good for? WAR! It’s 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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The Twang – It Feels Like (You’re Wasting My Time)
In 2019, it’s 15 years since Phil Etheridge, Martin Saunders, Jon Watkin, Stu Hartland and Matthew Clinton formed The Twang. I’ve liked them ever since their 2007 debut single Wide Awake.
It took the band five years to come up with their fifth studio album If Confronted Just Go Mad. It marks a more poppy musical direction and the departure of Saunders. Also, it includes vocals from new female singers Cat Mctigue and Rio Hellyer. Both of them also perform for rising star Tom Grennan. Their contribution provides The Twang with a new optimistic sound, as you can hear on their new single It Feels Like (You’re Wasting My Time).
Recommended as well:
The Twang – Everytime
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music 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.
