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The Calicos – Heartbreaker
The Calicos – Heartbreaker
Although they never went away, The Calicos’ single Nova felt like a comeback last Spring. Two years earlier, the Belgian band followed their victory in Humo’s Rock Rally contest with three singles. Next, they took their time to fine-tune their songs and sound. Nova was the first result of their collaboration with producer Tobie Speleman (Geppetto & The Whales, Blackwave. and others).
Now, The Calicos serve up their new track Heartbreaker. I don’t know if it’s because of that title, but I hear Tom Petty all over it. It may not be a lockdown song, but lyrics like ‘Another day wasted on the window sill’ and ‘Another day passes by and you lost count’ sure give it that atmosphere. In reality, it’s a classic sad love song, including broken hearts, unanswered love and what not. But, frontman Quinten Vermaelen tells Humo magazine, “the violins in the outro make for a hopeful ending.”
Heartbreaker is the second single off The Calicos’ upcoming debut album, which has been pushed back to next Spring.
Recommended as well:
The Calicos – Nova
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The Calicos – Nova
The Calicos – Nova
The Calicos are Quinten Vermaelen, Aäron Koch, Sander Smeets, Maximilian Dobbertin, Guido Op de Beeck and Olivier Penu. Six young guns from the city of Antwerp in Belgium. In the spring of 2018, they won Humo’s Rock Rally, a two-yearly contest for rock bands, organized by magazine Humo. The band blew the jury away with their own brew of indie, rock, Americana and alternative country. Songs in the tradition of Wilco, Ryan Adams and The War On Drugs, pedal steel guitar included.
Following the singles Our House, Driftwood and Runaway Kid, the band took their time to fine-tune their songs and sound. Tobie Speleman (Geppetto & The Whales, Blackwave. and others) helped them achieve this goal. Now, they confidently announce ‘a killer maiden album’ as a result. We’ll be able to check that next November.
Nova, the first single to be released ahead of that debut record is very promising indeed. The Calicos have developed into an alternative pop group with the ability to appeal to a large audience of all ages.
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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 10)
Not all, but only the best new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Áslaug – No One Said
indie | pop - Calicos – Rush Rush
americana | indie | pop - Dancer – Not Nothing
indie | rock - Giant Killers – One For Georgie
indie | pop - The Indie Pea – What’s It All For?
indie | pop - Jennie feat. Dua Lipa – Handlebars
pop - Jason Kimmel – The Actor acoustic | indie | pop
- Marble Sounds – Nothing To Get Over indie | pop
- Primal Scream – Innocent Money [Pet Shop Boys Remix] electronic | indie | pop
- The Sooks – Run The Sands indie | pop
- Tash Sultana – Hold On electronic | indie | pop
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 45)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Allie X – Our Lady Of Sorrows
dance | indie | pop - The Bamboos feat. Bobby Flynn – Lucky indie | pop | soul
- Sarah Blasko feat. Ryan Downey – Goodbye! indie | pop
- Calicos – Daydreaming americana | indie | pop
- Elbow – Adriana Again pop | rock
- Fil Bo Riva – I’m Fine (Alone Again)
pop - Leah Kate feat. 24Goldn – WYA indie | pop
- Kings Elliot – Sweet Nothing pop
- Little Juke – No Illusions indie | orchestral | pop | rock
- Rachèl Louise – Too Much Too Much indie | pop
- Miki – Cartoon Sex
indie | pop - Negramaro – Marziani pop | rock
- Primal Scream – Innocent Money indie | pop | soul
- Karina Savage – Killer!
indie | pop | rock - Tape Toy – Shotgun indie | pop | rock
- Drew Thomas – I’m Sorry (You’re Lonely) indie | pop | rock
Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 8)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added this week (alphabetically):
- The Boo Radleys – The Unconscious indie | pop
- Emerson Brophy – Day Job indie | pop
- Calicos – Comedown indie | pop | rock
- Gorillaz (feat. Stevie Nicks) – Oil pop
- The Heavy – I Feel The Love gospel | indie | rock
- Lipstick Palms – New Year indie | pop
- Tilly Louise – Join The Club indie | pop | rock
- Mood Bored – Lucky indie | pop | rock
- Meg Smith – All The Things You’d Ruin indie | pop | rock
- Drew Sycamore – Paradise/Surfer
pop - Tamir – Roses
indie | pop | soul - Lucy Warr – Better indie | pop | rock
- Melanie Wehbe – For The Show
indie | pop - Zuco 103 – Aruenda [2023 Version]
funk | indie | pop | tropical
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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Your favourites (May 2020)
In another good year for new music, I already collected over 450 great new tunes for you in my 2020 Spotify-playlist. If you generally like what you read and hear here, you can trust these to be the 450 best new songs of the year so far. Together, they form a great listening experience, stretching over 26,5 hours. But prepare for a trip through a varied musical landscape. Carte Blanche Music encourages you to listen to a wide range of genres, both inside and outside your comfort zone. For you know: the best experiences start where your comfort zone ends 😉
On behalf of this blog, I select the best of the adds to my Spotify playlist, and write a recommendation for them. Last month, like every month, I recommended 10 new songs per week; 2 per working day. The ones that reached most viewers come together in the monthly Your Favourites chart. On the 1st of June, obviously, I look back upon Your Favourites in May.
I love it that Shanguy’s 14-month-old former Wildcard Toukassé is still at #2 in your chart. In fact, ever since entering your Top 10 in March 2019, it has only left the ranking for 1 month. This kind of achievements give a whole new dimension to the term ‘hit’. The Italian/French act was beaten to the #1 position with the smallest of margins. This month, the top position is for The Rifles frontman Joel Stoker, whose ‘isolation version’ of the aptly titled Stuck Inside was my most popular recommendation among Carte Blanche Music readers. Rat Boy’s equally aptly titled Brave New World completes the Top 3.
Below, you can find all 10 of Your Favourites in the month of May. The links bring you directly to the original recommendations. Each of them features a player that lets you listen to the track via the platform of your choice. I like to make things easy for you 😉. Be my guest and click around. Enjoy!
- Joel Stoker (The Rifles) – Stuck Inside
- Shanguy – Toukassé (WC)
- Rat Boy – Brave New World
- Daði Freyr & Gagnamagnið – Think About Things
- Razorlight – Burn, Camden, Burn
- Be Charlotte – Lights Off
- Saint Motel – A Good Song Never Dies
- Videoclub – Enfance 80
- Nana Adjoa – She’s Stronger
- The Calicos – Nova
(WC) = former Carte Blanche Music Wildcard
