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single track, soundtrackHoshi – Nouvelle Ère
Hoshi – Nouvelle Ère
*SONG SNACK*
Hi-NRG track by Hoshi, the singing voice of Uta in the French version of ‘One Piece Film – Red’.
Recommended as well:
Et Même Après Je T’aimerai
Larmes De Croco (feat. Corine)
Amour Censure
Je Vous Trouve Un Charme Fou
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For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Hoshi – Et Même Après Je T’aimerai
Last year, French singer Hoshi delayed the release of her second album a few months because of COVID-19. Eventually, Sommeil Levant came out in June. Since then, 30.000 units were sold. Soon, the 24-year-old will put out a new version of the album. No word yet on the extra content it will contain, but it will hold at least one new track.
That song, Et Même Après Je T’aimerai, is Hoshi’s brand-new single. A treat for lovers of French chansons, it’s enriched with a housey piano and a string arrangement as well. In other words: a powerful pop track. Lyrically, it’s a heartfelt song about the complexities of love affairs.
Recommended as well:
Hoshi feat. Corine – Larmes De Croco
Hoshi – Amour Censure
Hoshi – Je Vous Trouve Un Charme Fou
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Hoshi feat. Corine – Larmes De Croco
In the last few years, two female artists rose to the top of the French charts from out of nowhere. Both of them featured multiple times on Carte Blanche Music: Hoshi (Mathide Gerner) and Corine (Aurore Imbert).
So far, these two phenomena each operated in their own genres, but things have changed. Hoshi just released her sophomore album Sommeil Levant, which is more produced than her debut Il Suffit D’y Croire. It contains more synths, which pulls its sound more towards Corine’s disco-pop.
Hoshi and Corine fans will be delighted to hear the album contains a duet between their favourites. Unsurprisingly, this collaboration between two of France’s biggest contemporary talents sounds exactly the way you hoped. A full on electro-pop song, Larmes De Croco (‘crocodile tears’) is the best possible mix of Hoshi’s and Corine’s musical universes. Four minutes of fun!
Although it’s not a single (yet), it’s the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard!
Recommended as well:
Hoshi – Amour Censure
Hoshi – Je Vous Trouve Un Charme Fou
In the Wildcards 2020 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
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Hoshi – Amour Censure
The last two years, Hoshi broke through in her home country France. Singles like Ta Marinière and Je Vous Trouve Un Charme Fou became hits and ended up on her debut album Il Suffit D’y Croire. Last week, she announced her sophomore long-player will come out in 2020.
Talking of coming out: in the same announcement, Hoshi presented her new single Amour Censure. A song that denounces homophobia. ‘There’s no censored love / There’s only true love’, she sings. Hoshi declared to have been a victim of aggression herself, six years ago.
Recommended as well:
Hoshi – Je Vous Trouve Un Charme Fou
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Hoshi – Je Vous Trouve Un Charme Fou
Only 21 years old, French singer Hoshi is a girl who knows what she wants. At 14, under a falling star, Mathilde – her real name – wished she would make it in music. Subsequently, she adopted the stage name Hoshi, Japanese for ‘star’.
Two years later, she started the rock band TransyStory, and wrote her first songs, inspired by Jacques Brel, Noir Désir, Serge Gainsbourg, and Patti Smith. One of those songs, that she posted on the internet, landed her an invitation to join television talent show ‘The Voice’. She got to the finals, but abandoned the show after being asked to sing a song that was not her cup of tea. After the press jumped upon this story, her name was made.
Last year, Hoshi released her first EP Comment Je Vais Faire and the great single Ta Marinière, preceding her debut album Il Suffit D’y Croire (out on 23 March). Je Vous Trouve Un Charme Fou is the second single off it, and a very promising one.
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 15)
Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):
- Alta Falls – Tried To Forget About
indie | pop - Bailen – Nothing Left To Give
indie | pop - Blood Donor – Baby No More
indie | pop | rock - The Cope – Back On My Bullshit
dance | electronic | indie | pop - Madison Davenport – Lucky indie | pop
- Emiline – Oh, Honey
indie | pop - Erobique – Verkackt indie | pop | soul
- Evade – Roll The Dice indie | pop | rock
- Grichu – Ma Ma
dance | electronic | indie | jazz - Hallie – Cut It Off indie | pop | rock
- Hoshi – Mauvais Rêve
hip hop | indie | pop - The Linda Lindas – Too Many Things indie | punk | rock
- Tilly Louise – Make Me A Robot
indie | pop | rock - Lucky Lo – Yes To Myself
indie | pop - Sarah Mickey – Without indie | rock
- Miss Caffeina – Shanghái Baby
pop - Miss Molly – 21 Flaws
indie | pop - Oh Land – Bleeed
pop - Sharl – Entitled indie | pop
- Vice Killer – The Red Sky indie | pop | rock
- Vistas – Last Together indie | pop | rock
- Jessie Ware – Begin Again pop | latin
- Waterparks – 2 Best Friends indie | pop | rock
- Yeah Nah Yeah – Will We Really Let It End Like This? 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 35)
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:
- Blonde Diamond – We Just Wanna Dance (Wildcard this week)
- Georgia Lines – Faith
(Wildcard last week) - Daya – Her
- Ederlezi – Drawn To The Ruin
- grandma – soft-glow
- Hoshi – Nouvelle Ère
- Self Esteem – Fucking Wizardry [Block Them Edit]
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: Banners, Rina Sawayama, Walk Off The Earth, and more.
single trackGrand Corps Malade – Des Gens Beaux
Grand Corps Malade – Des Gens Beaux
Two of my favourite French artists nowadays are Grand Corps Malade and Hoshi. This story starts with the latter. Or rather, this is a story that stars the latter. Hoshi is a very gifted singer-songwriter. Also, she’s a proud member of the LHBTIQ+ community. For open-minded people like you and me, that’s as normal as anything. But you must know that since Hoshi kissed onstage with one of her (female) band members, she received the most appalling threats.
That’s not all, alas. Last April, French ‘music expert’ Fabien Lecoeuvre gave his (sexist) contribution in a radio show. He argued (allow me to paraphrase) that modern popstars are hideous to look at. “Take Hoshi for instance”, he said. “She’s a huge talent without a doubt, but would you hang her poster in your room? She’s scary. She should give her songs to pretty singers.”
(I’ll give you a few seconds to catch your breath…)
Obviously, Hoshi responded to this statement (“You make me puke”), and many French artists denounced Lecoeuvre’s judgments. The most powerful support now comes from Grand Corps Malade. He wrote a song about the affair. Des Gens Beaux is a danceable pop tune, that includes the journalist’s original remarks, combined with cynical lyrics in support of his colleague singer. Even if you don’t speak French, you’ll be able to feel the emotions.
Having said that, at first listen, I thought I heard GCM sing ‘Il faut des jambons’ (we need hams), but the lyrics go ‘Il faut des gens beaux’ (we need beautiful people), which is much more on topic… Don’t forget to watch the great video as well!
Recommended as well:
Grand Corps Malade – Pas Essentiel
Grand Corps Malade – Effets Secondaires
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For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Carte Blanche Music Top 2020
Ahead of your favourites among this year’s Carte Blanche Music recommendations, which I’ll publish tomorrow, these are my personal choices from the songs that came out in 2020. This list holds only 100 tracks, but you can find all of my 994 recommendations in my container playlist Carte Blanche Music 2020.
As always, I love to share some statistics about the Carte Blanche Music Top 2020. These findings are further evidence of the fact that the music radio stations play for you is far from representative of the wealth of great new music out there. Thankfully, there are blogs like Carte Blanche Music that are independent and unbiased, and don’t want to please everybody at the same time. We’re here to surprise you with great new music, no matter what genre or gender, origin or orientation. Just a few statistics:
- Judging from this Top 100 alone (let alone the full container playlist), 2020 was a great year for pure pop music, young artists, ‘80s influences, independent releases, the Australian music scene, queer pop-rock and female vocalists
- A whopping 70% of the tracks in this year’s list feature female lead vocals (and I thought the 60% in the Carte Blanche Music Top 2019 was impressive already)
- Overall, rock ruled. 54% of the tracks in my year-end chart is guitar-based (just over last year’s tally)
- The list clearly shows there are more countries that produce great artists than Great-Britain and the United States alone. This year, more nationalities than ever are represented in my Top 100. You’ll also find artists from Armenia, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland
- As a result, although most lyrics are in English, you’ll also hear songs (partly) sung in French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish and Swedish
The Carte Blanche Music Top 2020 features 100 tracks, which are presented below in alphabetical order. You can listen to them all via the Spotify player. If you prefer another order, just use the shuffle button 😉.
Meanwhile, you can read my original recommendations through the links below.
- A Is For Arrows – Every Now And Then
- Abbie Ozard – True Romance (WC)
- Aili x Transistorcake – Dansu
- Aitana – 11 Razones
- Alex The Astronaut – I Think You’re Great (WC)
- Alice & Moi – T’aimerais Que Ce Soit Vrai
- Altered By Mom – Better On The Page
- Amy Allen – Difficult
- Archie X – Loud Boy (WC)
- Ava Max – Kings And Queens
- Awolnation feat. Alice Merton – The Best
- Badflower – 30
- Baxtr – Bloom (WC)
- Bée – Nothing Alike (WC)
- The Beths – Mars, The God Of War
- Betty Who – The One
- Blossoms – It’s Going To Be A Cold Winter
- Bloxx – Off My Mind
- Bloxx – 5000 Miles (WC)
- Calogero – La Rumeur
- Charles – Far Gone
- Daði Freyr & Gagnamagnið – Think About Things
- Dagny – Coulda Woulda Shoulda (*)
- Don Diablo – Invincible
- Don’t Bring Stacey – Waiting For It
- Dopha – Anti Breakup Song
- Doves – Prisoners (WC)
- Dua Lipa – Physical (WC)
- Dua Lipa – Break My Heart
- Dua Lipa (feat. DaBaby) – Levitating [Single Version]
- Efecto Pasillo feat. Huecco – Funketón [2020 Version]
- Egoism – You You (WC)
- Ella Grace – Unfree
- Ellur – Alive
- The Flowers – You Don’t Say!
- Francesco Gabbani – Il Sudore Ci Appiccica
- Genes – Super Single
- Gin Wigmore – HBIC
- Grace Farriss – All The People (WC)
- Gracie Abrams – Friend
- Grand Corps Malade – Pas Essentiel (WC)
- Håkan Hellström – Alla Drömmar Är Uppfyllda (WC)
- Harper Bloom – Walk My Way
- Hedda Mae – Madness
- The Hold Steady – Family Farm
- Hollie Col – She Knows (WC)
- Holy Holy (feat. Queen P) – Port Rd (WC)
- Hope D – Second
- Hoshi feat. Corine – Larmes De Croco (WC)
- Icona Pop & Sofi Tukker – Spa
- Indochine x Christine & The Queens – 3Sex
- Izo FitzRoy – Red Line (WC)
- Jaclyn – Energy
- Jake Bugg – Rabbit Hole
- Joan – Want U Back
- Joel Culpepper – WAR (WC)
- Julie Bergan – Commando (WC)
- Kailee Morgue – This Is Why I’m Hot (*)
- Keleketla! – International Love Affair (WC)
- Killboy – That’s OK I’ll Just Fuck Myself
- King Princess – Pain
- Kristiane – Wish I Could Be Your Girl
- La Oreja De Van Gogh – Te Pareces Tanto A Mí
- Lauran Hibberd – Boy Bye
- Lime – Fever
- Lola Lennox – Back At Wrong
- London Grammar – Baby It’s You
- The Lottery Winners – An Open Letter To Creatives (WC)
- Lova – Black Converse
- Lova – One Day Left
- Lucas Hamming – Falling
- The Magic Gang – Make Time For Change (WC)
- May-a – Apricots
- Miss Li – Therapy
- Miss Machine – Tout Autour
- MisterWives – Rock Bottom (WC)
- Monowhales – BL/FF (Fake Friends) (WC)
- Ocean Grove – Dream
- ONR (feat. Nile Rodgers) – Kill TV (WC)
- Palace Winter (feat. Penny Police) – Richard (Says Yes) (WC)
- Pixey – Just Move (WC)
- Pyro – Your Love
- Raave Tapes – Habitual
- The Radar Station – Zanzara [2020 Version] (*)
- Raye – Love Of Your Life
- Red Rum Club – The Elevation
- Ren – I Drive Me Mad (WC)
- Rinse feat. Hatchie – Back Into Your Arms
- Rooue – What You Want (WC)
- Sebu with Eraserfase – The Worst That Could Happen To Us (WC)
- Semisonic – Basement Tapes
- Sidonie with Delaporte – Mi Vida Es La Música
- Slum Sociable (feat. Kye) – You’re In My Head
- Super-Hi x Neeka – Following The Sun
- T99 vs. Youngr – Anasthasia [Youngr Bootleg]
- Temples – Paraphernalia
- Texas & Wu-Tang Clan – Hi
- Town Of Cats – Lemons (WC)
- Veronica Fusaro – Beach
- Videoclub – Enfance 80
(WC) ex Carte Blanche Music Wildcard
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