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Bad Sounds – Permanent
Ewan Merrett and Callum Merrett, two brothers from Bath (UK), formed Bad Sounds a few years ago. They haven’t yet delivered on the promise of their early output, but with their new single, the ambitious duo give it a new go.
Following last year’s Sympathetic Vibrations and Breathe, Permanent is the third single off their new EP Escaping From A Violent Time, Vol. 1. The EP was written and recorded in an underground former prison cell in Bristol. It was produced by the Merrett brothers themselves.
Talking about this bright and funky song, they explain: “It’s primarily about acceptance. Learning how to accept your own shortcomings, and your own personality. Sometimes I feel like I just mirror the people around me in social situations, and started to worry that I didn’t even really have a personality of my own.”
Recommended as well:
Bad Sounds – Zacharia
Bad Sounds – Wages
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Bad Sounds – Zacharia
Why didn’t British five-piece Bad Sounds name their band Dirty Sounds? Probably because they’re from Bath. I wrote about them earlier, concerning the great single Wages. Other tracks they released to far are I Feel, Avalanche and Meat On My Bones.
All four of them are now collected on their debut EP Phresssh, which also features one new lead track: Zacharia.
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Bad Sounds – Wages
If you like (electronic) brass (STOP THE PRESS: those are real horns!), dirty mouth organs and an overall baggy sound that resembles the Madchester sound of the late eighties/early nineties, this is your new favourite track. If you think that sounds good, let me introduce you to Bad Sounds…
Bad Sounds are a British five-piece from Bath, who like to channel their energy into upbeat songs. And into fun video’s, as well. Like the one for their single Wages, below. The track was released in September 2016 already, but has taken since then to reach the European Border Breakers Chart, which it enters this week at an impressive #39.
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Louis & The Shakes – How Badly Do You Want It?
Louis Antoniou (lead vocals), Jamie Lawson (lead guitar), Manny O’Donnell (drum) and Will Finnerty (bass) are Louis & The Shakes. They may be a London four-piece, but their music sounds as American as can be. In their infectious, hard-hitting songs they combine blues, Americana, and psychedelic indie-rock into a distinctive cocktail.
Up-tempo new single How Badly Do You Want It? is no exception to the description above. In other words: it’s one’s for fans of Queens Of The Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys and The Black Keys. It even adds a Long Train Runnin’ kind of funky guitar to the mix.
Front man Antoniou says of the track: “I’ve always had a bluesy streak and I think you can hear that in this tune particularly – the simplicity of the claps and the ‘tribal’ backing vocals in the verses. (…) Lyrically it’s all about keeping going, keep believing and never giving up. Instead of resting on our laurels [after COVID-19 came] we thought let’s get in the studio and record this album.”
How Badly Do You Want It? is the first single from the band’s upcoming same-titled debut long-player.
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Broods – Piece Of My Mind
Following collaborations with Ladyhawke and Bad Sounds, Broods just released their first ‘headlining’ single of 2021. With Piece Of My Mind, the New Zealand sibling duo (Georgia and Caleb Nott) created another anthemic, arena-ready track. It features dry beats and dreamy synths, which at times produce a futuristic atmosphere. That’s on purpose, for Piece Of My Mind is the first track off an upcoming album named Space Island. It comes with an artistic visual, inspired by sci-fi B-movies.
Musically, it may sound bright and carefree, but the lyrics are a darker affair. They deal with escapism and mental health issues. Georgia Nott: “The song describes the many paradoxes we encounter when we try to escape our problems. The more we try to run away from our problems and ourselves, the more we are confronted with the aspects of each that we don’t like.”
Recommended as well:
Broods – Everything Goes (Wow)
Broods – Peach
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Devon – Warning Signs
Devon is an artist/producer from the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, which he describes as ‘the middle of absolutely nowhere!’ in his bio. So it’s fair to say he was isolated even before this whole COVID-19 thing happened. This isolation led to him developing a DIY attitude towards everything music-related. Like learning how to produce his own music from his bedroom due to a lack of studio recording facilities.
With over 2 million Spotify streams to his name, he spent part of last year’s free time to explore other channels. He discovered a love for TikTok, where he developed an impressive US listener-base. In fact, it now exceeds that of his home country. Likewise he’s currently very active on Triller.
Next to connecting with his fans, he connected with other artists to co-create. Most notably, he collaborated with Bath brothers Ewan Merrett and Callum Merrett (a.k.a. Carte Blanche Music regulars Bad Sounds). They produced Devon’s single Why Do We Wake Up? (Before The Good Bit) and made a groove-laden remix of Trust Issues before. Now, they also co-wrote and produced his new single, the big alt-pop banger Warning Signs.
Devon explains: “The track has a wide meaning, which I like, but It definitely came from a time in my life when I felt like I was acting out of character and destroyed certain relationships in doing so. The song talks from a outsiders perspective looking at other people and us as a human race, and how we can sometimes destroy ourselves by living in denial of issues and sweeping stuff under the rug be it on a personal level or just on a human level.”
Recommended as well:
Devon – I Don’t Want 2 B Ur Friend
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European Border Breakers Chart 24 August 2018
Every Friday around noon, we publish a fresh European Border Breakers Chart. Or… multiple charts, to be exact. The main Top 100 indicates cross-border success by emerging European artists and combines airplay and streaming data. But if you wish, you can also check each data stream separately, by viewing the Airplay Chart or the Streaming Chart. It’s fascinating to see the differences.
To give you one example: one of my favourite entries in this week’s chart, former Carte Blanche Music Wildcard King Of The Jungle by Shanguy (pictured), is – shamefully! – not played enough on the radio to reach the Airplay Top 100. However, Polish people love it so much, that the track is at #11 the Streaming Chart. This gives the song enough leverage for it to appear in the combined Top 100. Meanwhile, their debut single La Louze is still #15 at Streaming.
All 10 fresh tracks among this week’s 22 (re)entries are listed below:
#30: Sam Fender – Dead Boys
#74: Lukas Leon – XTC
#87: Yazmin Lacey – Still
#89: Bad Sounds – Couldn’t Give It Away
#90: Emily Burns – Test Drive
#94: Yazmin Lacey – Sun Is Ours
#95: Saint Lanvain – If Jesus Loves Me
#96: Shanguy – King Of The Jungle
#99: Alligator – Shadow By Your Side
#100: Miami Yacine – Kokaina
For the full Top 100, click the ‘EBBChart’ tab in the top menu of this blog (loading of the PDF may take a little while). More charts, like the Tips (ranking the tracks that are on their way to the Top 100), the Airplay Chart and the Streaming Chart, are available at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu, where you can also listen to all of the tracks and watch their videos, as well as share them via social media.
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European Border Breakers Chart 1 June 2018
The European Border Breakers Chart has the precision of a Swiss clock: every Friday around noon a new Top 100 (and accompanying charts) is published, indicating the new European artists that are already gaining traction outside their home countries and may well be on their way to become the new Dua Lipa, Alan Walker or Alice Merton (all of whom popped up in the EBBChart before their big international break-throughs).
This week’s chart counts another 15 fresh tracks among its 21 (re)entries. Are you ready to discover?
#19: Oysang – Go Flex
#43: Cosha – Do You Wanna Dance
#50: Bad Sounds – Evil Powers (pictured)
#58: Sigrid – Yellow
#66: Tracyanne & Danny – Can’t Be Love Unless It Hurts
#70: Blanche – Wrong Turn
#76: Shame – Tasteless
#84: Tracyanne & Danny – Home And Dry
#85: Elias Abbas feat. Hkeem – Bete Dig
#89: Vianni – Antisocial
#90: The Kingdom Choir Collective – Stand By Me
#93: 77:78 – Chilli
#94: Becky & The Birds – Holding On
#97: Cosima – Hymns For Him
#100: Sorry – Showgirl
For the full Top 100, click the ‘EBBChart’ tab in the top menu of this blog (loading of the PDF may take a little while). More charts, like the Tips (ranking the tracks that are on their way to the Top 100), the Airplay Chart and the Streaming Chart, are available at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu, where you can also listen to all of the tracks and watch their videos, as well as share them via social media.
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European Border Breakers Chart 19 January 2018
From last Wednesday through Saturday the ESNS festival takes place in Groningen, the Netherlands. The showcase festival for emerging European bands. During daytime music professionals come together at the ESNS conference to meet colleagues from other countries and to join panel sessions. It’s at the ESNS conference, exactly two years ago, where the European Border Breakers Charts were launched. And it’s also the place, where this week the next step was announced: the addition of streaming data to compile an even more relevant chart. If you want to read more about that, click here.
Meanwhile, the show goes on. And how! One quarter of the EBBChart Top 100 consists of (re)entries this week, 14 of which are first timers. Sigrid (pictured) and Skott seem to benefit most of the fact they won a European Border Breakers Award this year (which was presented to them last Wednesday, here in Groningen). Their tracks Anything Could Happen (an Ellie Goulding cover, played live at the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge) and Stay Off My Mind enter the chart, at #25 and #56, respectively.
The other entries are Bad Sounds – Are You High? (#39), Témé Tan – Menteur (#47), Hugo Helmig – Eyes Wide Shut (#58), Shame – Concrete (#63), Dadju – Reine (#70), Trobi feat. Boaz van de Beatz & Adïka – U Don’t Know (#82), Sassy 009 – Are You Leaving (#87), Takagi feat. Ketra, Elisa & Tommaso – Da Sola / In The Night (#94), Ramz – Barking (#95), Octavian – Party Here (#96), Kilnamana – Adios Amigo (#99), and 23 Unofficial – Ain’t Bothered (#100).
For the complete Top 100, click the ‘EBBChart’ tab in the top menu of this blog (loading of the PDF may take a little while). More charts, like the Tips (ranking the tracks that are on their way to the Top 100), the Airplay Chart and the Streaming Chart, are available at www.europeanborderbreakerschart.eu, where you can listen to all of the tracks and watch their videos as well.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 47)
With the likes of Bad Sounds, Black Honey, Luis Fonsi & Demi Lovato, Sea Girls and Yungblud added to my container playlist Carte Blanche Music in the last week, what could possibly go wrong this week? Nothing really!
But to make sure you don’t miss out on the best new music of the past seven days, I compiled a new edition of Werner’s Weekly for you. Check it below, listen via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar and/or read more information about each of the tracks by clicking the links.
Enjoy the ride and follow my playlist for daily updates!
