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album track, wildcardWildcard (week 27):
Wildcard (week 27):
beabadoobee – He Gets Me So High
Indie-pop darling beabadoobee is currently recording her sophomore album. Bridging the gap between her debut album and the upcoming release, she put out the EP Our Extended Play. The ‘our’ in its title refers to the fact the EP is a collaborative effort between Beatrice Laus herself and her label mates Matt Healy and George Daniel of The 1975. They co-wrote and produced the songs.
The 4-track-collection already produced two singles: Last Day On Earth and her current single Cologne. However, I’d like to introduce you to closing tune He Gets Me So High, which is a real gem. Light and summer-y, it brings the jangle pop of bands such as The Byrds and R.E.M. to mind. Meanwhile, it may also have been inspired by The Cure’s more poppy output.
He Gets Me So High was originally written by Healy and called She Gets Me So High. You can also hear him sing in the call-and-response bridge. This would make a great summer single if you’d ask me!
Ahead of that, He Gets Me So High by beabadoobee will feature here prominently for a whole week as the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard.
Recommended as well:
beabadoobee – Charlie Brown
beabadoobee – She Plays Bass
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In the Wildcards 2021 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
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beabadoobee – Charlie Brown
In September 2017, beabadoobee released her very first single Coffee. It immediately made heads turn at Dirty Hit Records, home to The 1975, Pale Waves, Wolf Alice and many others. Also, it drew 300.000 viewers on YouTube and grabbed the attention of Canadian rapper Powfu. He incorporated a sample of the track in his single Death Bed (Coffee For Your Head), which became a worldwide hit in early 2020. In an interview, beabadoobee said about that: “I kinda hated it. I hated more people knowing about the first song I’d ever written and not my others.” Nevertheless, it formed a perfect launch pad for her own career.
In the last months, she released no less than five singles ahead of her debut album Fake It Flowers. Care, Sorry, Worth It, How Was Your Day? and Together are all on it. My favourite track however is Charlie Brown. Not exactly because of its light-hearted theme, because it’s a dark song about auto-mutilation. But it’s also a driving song, full of energy. Explosive even, in a Nirvana kind of way. Epic stuff by a very promising artist who is only 20 years of age.
Recommended as well:
beabadoobee – She Plays Bass
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
single track, wildcardWildcard (week 51):
Wildcard (week 51):
beabadoobee – She Plays Bass
There’s nothing wrong with Beatrice Laus’ real name. But her artist name beabadoobee is genuinely swinging. So far, the 19-year-old London singer-songwriter’s musical style has mostly been pigeon-holed as ‘bedroom pop’. A description that relates more to technical issues than to content, in my opinion. Nevertheless, more and more artists pop up in this category. Time for beabadoobee to move on…
You’re right when you presume her single She Plays Bass to feature a dominant bass line. This, along with a shift towards ’90s indie-rock, gives the song a nostalgic, New Order kind of vibe. However, according to a press release, it was inspired by Sleater-Kinney and The Breeders. No complaints there…
She Plays Bass was first released four months ago. Now, with a BBC Sound Of 2020 nomination in the pocket, it gets a new round of promotion. High time this great track became the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard!
In the Wildcards 2019 playlist you can find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
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beabadoobee – She Plays Bass
There’s nothing wrong with Beatrice Laus’ real name. But her artist name beabadoobee is genuinely swinging. So far, the 19-year-old London singer-songwriter’s musical style has mostly been pigeon-holed as ‘bedroom pop’. A description that relates more to technical issues than to content, in my opinion. Nevertheless, more and more artists pop up in this category. Time for beabadoobee to move on…
Her new single is called She Plays Bass, so you’re right when you presume it to feature a dominant bass line. This, along with a shift towards ’90s indie-rock, gives the song a nostalgic, New Order kind of vibe. However, according to a press release, it was inspired by Sleater-Kinney and The Breeders. No complaints there…
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 8)
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:
- Gabrielle Aplin – Be Yourself
(Wildcard this week) - Dolores Forever – When I Say So (Wildcard last week)
- beabadoobee – Glue Song
- Black Honey – OK
- Desirée Dawson – Lonely
- Bea Miller – Cynical
- Jason Mraz – I Feel Like Dancing
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 7)
The best from a crazy amount of new releases. Added this week (alphabetically):
- Anna Of The North – Swirl
indie | pop - Bailen – Call It Like It Is indie | pop | rock
- Nessa Barrett – Bang Bang! pop | rock
- beabadoobee – Glue Song indie | pop
- Black Honey – OK indie | rock
- Cole Bleu – Heartbreakers indie | rock
- Gia Darcy – I’ll Never Drink Again
indie | pop | rock - Desirée Dawson – Lonely indie | pop | r&b
- Death Of The High Street – Not Fair indie | rock
- FloodHounds – Psychosemantics indie | rock
- James Gittins feat. Sophie Naglik – What You Want [Dance Remix] dance | indie | pop
- Tara Hack – Bounce disco | electronic | funk | indie | pop
- The Hengles – Flashes Of Green
indie | pop | rock - Tycho Jones – Risk To My Reward indie | pop
- Daimy Lotus – Friends 😉 indie | pop | rock
- Melle – Can’t Come Home indie | pop
- Bea Miller – Cynical indie | rock
- Jason Mraz – I Feel Like Dancing indie | pop
- noelle – Mars indie | pop
- Lo Noom – Too Much For Me acoustic | indie | pop
- Giovany Revelle – Time indie | pop | rock
- Rews – Misery
indie | rock - Bebe Rexha – Heart Wants What It Wants pop
- Bartees Strange – Tisched Off indie | pop | rock
- Temples – Cicada indie | pop
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 25)
This is Werner’s Weekly, your compass to new music that matters, containing the two most recent Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, and the best of the other new releases in alphabetical order:
- Lockyer Boys – LATKD (Wildcard this week)
- Harm & Ease x Fefe Dobson – Lemonade (Wildcard last week)
- Empress – Baby
- Metric – What Feels Like Eternity
- Nikki Lane – First High
- Roe – I Can Change
- The Aces – Girls Make Me Wanna Die
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: beabadoobee, Lissie, Young Gun Silver Fox, and more.
single track, wildcardWildcard (week 11):
Wildcard (week 11):
Haley Ganis – Just Pretty
Haley Ganis grew up in New York, where she graduated from AMDA (The American Musical and Dramatic Academy). A month after, she landed her first role in the independent film ‘Cathy Coppola’. More roles followed, but Ganis currently focuses on her career as a singer and songwriter, based in Nashville. She specialises in bittersweet, honest and nostalgic perspectives on life. If you like renforshort, Julia Michaels, beabadoobee and Olivia Rodrigo, be sure to get to know Haley Ganis as well.
Later this year, the rising indie-pop artist will release a new EP. Just Pretty is the first single to be released ahead of it. A great song with an accessible pop-punk inspired sound.
“I am so incredibly proud of the journey this song has taken”, says Haley. “What started out as a ballad, eventually made its way to a kickass anthem that I’m obsessed with. I couldn’t have done it without my producer, Dylan Maloney, and all of the amazingly talented musicians who played on this track for me.”
Here at Carte Blanche Music we’re obsessed with Just Pretty by Haley Ganis as well. It’s our new Wildcard, so it’ll feature at the top of the blog for a whole week!
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For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
single trackSlowly Slowly – Nothing On
Slowly Slowly – Nothing On
Nothing On is easily Slowly Slowly’s poppiest song yet. With this track, the Melbourne pop-rockers move in a tight, sing-along bubblegum pop direction. I like them all the better for it. Self-produced by front man Ben Stewart, the drums and guitars sound more polished than ever. Mixer Jonathan Gilmore (who worked with The 1975, Nothing But Thieves and beabadoobee before) deserves credits for that as well. Nothing On marks the first taste of new music from the band this year.
Stewart explains this song is about the world stopping and getting the chance to repair things that had gone unsaid or been swept up in the everyday, for some time. “I was locked up in a house and for the first time was forced to look at what I had become – how I’d lost the fun side of myself. It’s a nod to the bittersweet nature of the last 2 years. It’s been so difficult and yet such a period of growth. Most of the music I’ve written in this period has an upbeat feel to it in a desperate attempt to remember that feeling. I don’t think I could have handled writing a bleak sounding record and so this song, like many to come, detail very complicated, painful situations housed in fun exteriors. Even if you choose to just scratch the surface, Nothing On is highly addictive. We have been listening to it for months now and we’re still not sick of it.”
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