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Wildcard (week 15):
Lauran Hibberd feat. DJ Lethal – Still Running (5K)
I consider myself a fan of Lauran Hibberd’s. Her songs are fresh, tongue-in-cheek, hard-hitting and accessible at the same time. Slacker pop for the 2020’s. After two EP’s, she’s currently recording her debut album. It’s called Garageband Superstar and will be out on 19 August. Write that date down, peeps. The title may seem to be a tad premature, but she’s sure to live up to it.
The first single off the long-player, Still Running (5K), is out now. It’s once again produced to perfection by Suzy Shinn (Weezer, Panic! At The Disco, Fall Out Boy, Dua Lipa). The hip hop inspired scratches were added by Limp Bizkit’s DJ Lethal.
Of the meaning behind the track, Lauran explains: “Still Running (5K) explores my self-destructive ideals. In a world where everyone’s life looks better online, and everyone’s thighs don’t touch except in real life, it explains what it feels like to start believing what you read. It’s dangerous to compare your life to others, and it’s somewhat humorous that this is what we let ourselves become.”
Still Running (5K) by Lauran Hibberd feat. DJ Lethal is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. This means it’ll feature prominently at the top of the blog for a whole week!
Recommended as well:
Bleugh
Boy Bye
Bang Bang Bang
Sweat Patch
Hoochie
Follow Lauran Hibberd on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify
Follow DJ Lethal on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify
In the Wildcards 2022 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
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Wildcard (week 25):
Lauran Hibberd – Bleugh
Imagine you’re a DJ and happy enough to be able to announce Lauran Hibberd’s new single Bleugh. Wouldn’t that just make your day? Alas, not many radio stations nowadays are brave enough to program the kind of music Hibberd makes. Especially since her output is getting louder and louder with every release. It just so happens however her songs are getting stronger and stronger at the same time. So, these unadventurous radio stations are in fact depriving their listeners of some damn fine music, which they’d deserve to hear.
Bleugh is Hibberd’s new single, which sees the 23-year-old musician from the Isle Of White switch between singing and speaking. It’s an explosive, ferocious track that allows her to kick out her frustrations about falling for people that you soon realize are the kind of folk you don’t particularly want in your life. Yet, you still find yourself getting sucked in.
She explains: “You’ll probably find these people in bands called something like ‘broken cyclists’ or better yet in moody solo projects called something pretentious like ‘bora boring’. It’s my favourite track of mine, and I’ve been sitting on and incubating this girl for a while. It feels really good shouting ‘Bleugh’ btw, I recommend you try it out.”
The single is released ahead of Hibberd’s sophomore EP Goober, set to be unleashed in July. It’s her first body of work since her debut EP Everything Is Dogs, which came out in 2019.
This week, Lauran Hibberd’s new single will feature prominently at the top of the Carte Blanche Music blog as our new Wildcard. Bleugh!
Recommended as well:
Boy Bye
Bang Bang Bang
Sweat Patch
Hoochie
Follow Lauran Hibberd on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify
In the Wildcards 2021 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
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Lauran Hibberd – Boy Bye
Slacker pop princess Lauran Hibberd’s releases go from strength to strength. Her new single Boy Bye, which draws from the likes of Pixies and Weezer, is her boldest yet. Created during a lockdown session with producer Suzy Shinn (Weezer, Panic! At The Disco, Fall Out Boy, Dua Lipa), it shows great progression and growing confidence. Both explosive and obsessive, Boy Bye is a charming tune, even though it’s about an unhealthy relationship.
“Boy Bye IS co-dependency”, the Isle Of Wight native says. “It has a scarily obsessive nature about it and is based on the need to ‘feed’ someone to keep them around. I sort of battle with myself throughout the whole track, the same way you would in your brain when stuff like this happens and you try and justify it to yourself. There’s an odd strength in it though, and I think it’s noticing it and being able to say it out loud that gives it that balls to the wall sort of ‘get lost’ momentum. Also BYE BOYSSSS!!!!”
Recommended as well:
Lauran Hibberd – Bang Bang Bang
Lauran Hibberd – Sweat Patch
Lauran Hibberd – Hoochie
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Lauran Hibberd – Bang Bang Bang
Singer-songwriter Lauran Hibberd, from Isle Of White, started playing guitar and writing songs when she was 14. She’s been prolific from the start. “I write two songs a week, I always have”, she told British trade publication Music Week.
Her latest slacker jam Bang Bang Bang is her favourite song of hers so far. “It’s my Crash by The Primitives, my ode to the ’90s teenager and the soundtrack to every mistake I’ve ever made and how I can laugh at that now.” Bang Bang Bang is Hibberd’s first taste of new music in the new decade, following last year’s four-song EP Everything Is Dogs and additional single Sweat Patch.
Recommended as well:
Lauran Hibberd – Sweat Patch
Lauran Hibberd – Hoochie
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Lauran Hibberd – Sweat Patch
Hot on the heels of her critically acclaimed debut EP Everything is Dogs, Lauran Hibberd serves a brand new tune. Sweat Patch is another slice of sparkling slacker pop, where she delivers the lyrics in her signature conversational style.
Discussing the tune, Isle Of Wight’s indie darling explains: “Sweat Patch is arguably a song about drugs, but it’s not like I’m trying to be cool about it. I’m pretty much frigid with anything unprescribed. But because of that, this song is based on my idea of that world. There’s loads of songs about getting high, not as many songs about watching and I guess analysing other people do it. I guess this is me, soberly sat in a room watching all of my friends take drugs. I guess there’s also a nod to the elephant in the room, A DUDE. There’s always a dude! And I guess this song stemmed from me being into this guy, but he was pretty much into other things more.”
Recommended as well:
Lauran Hibberd – Hoochie
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Lauran Hibberd – Hoochie
Lauran Hibberd, from Isle of Wight, has a way of mixing humorous, tongue-in-cheek, self-assured lyrics with accessible guitar riffs. Her new single Hoochie sounds like a throwback to the 90s, when acts like Catherine Wheel and Juliana Hatfield delivered the same kind of melodious rock songs.
It’s an energetic, carefree guitar track that focuses on a toxic relationship and how important it is to get rid of that negativity in her life. She explains: “Hoochie is a 90s slang term for a bit of a ‘loose’ woman. It’s also the name of my new hamster. For me, this track is kind of that three-month period, after you’ve stopped hanging out with someone and you realise that actually they were kind of a tool, and that maybe you are alright.”
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 17)
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:
- Angèle – Libre
(Wildcard this week) - Lauran Hibberd feat. DJ Lethal – Still Running (5K)
(Wildcard last week) - Estella Dawn – Easy To Fall
- Friday – Feels So Good
- Losun – Crossroad
- The Indiana Drones – To Be Free
- Vaughn Ahrens – Small Talk
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: Duran Duran, Editors, Florence & The Machine, The Fratellis, and more.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 16)
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:
- Lauran Hibberd feat. DJ Lethal – Still Running (5K) (Wildcard this week)
- Get Well Soon – My Home Is My Heart
(Wildcard last week) - AA Sessions (feat. Arxx, Paperflag & Projector) – Can’t Stand You
- Dopapod – Black Holes
- 90ivy – Tiffany
- Olivia O’Brien – Bitches These Days
- Tilly Louise – Baggy T-Shirt
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: Lizzo, Bilderbuch, Son Mieux and more.
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Carte Blanche Music Top 2021
Ahead of your favourites among this year’s Carte Blanche Music recommendations, which I’ll publish next week, these are my personal choices from the songs that came out in 2021. This list holds only 100 tracks, but you can find all of my 998 recommendations in my container playlist Carte Blanche Music 2021.
As always, I love to share some statistics about the Carte Blanche Music Top 2021. If there’s one – sad – common denominator to be found in this list, it’s that most of these songs have been criminally overlooked by radio stations outside the artist’s home countries. Radio playlists are growing more and more uniform, denying the diversity of the music available. Obviously, with over 60.000 new tracks added to Spotify every day the supply is kind of excessive, but more adventurous choices would be very welcome. Knowing this won’t happen, the best you can do is follow the Carte Blanche Music playlist, then I’ll keep you updated 😉. This is what you can expect, based on this year’s Top 2021:
- Mostly (young and) upcoming artists, many of whom release their music independently
- No less than 72% of the Top 2021 features female vocalists, up from 70% in our Top 2020 and 60% in the Top 2019
- We love pure pop songs, but with 40% guitar-based tracks, we’re more rock ‘n’ roll than average. According to Spotify Wrapped, our favourite genres last year were indie pop, modern alternative rock and dance pop, and we agree
- You can expect the best new tunes from all over the world, but even we have our preferences. We have extra warm feelings for music from countries like Australia, France, Canada and Denmark. Just so you know…
The Carte Blanche Music Top 2021 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, the shuffle button is your friend.
Meanwhile, you can read my original recommendations through the links below.
- Ali Barter – You Get In My Way
- Alice Merton – Island
- The Allergies – Move On Baby
- Ally Cribb – Bigger
- Alta Falls – The Fire
- Aly & AJ – Don’t Need Nothing
- Amy Shark – Baby Steps
- Angèle – Libre
- Anish Kumar & Barry Can’t Swim – Blackpool Boulevard
- Archie X – Fight Me
- Baby Queen – You Shaped Hole (WC)
- Bakermat (feat. LaShun Pace) – Ain’t Nobody
- Baxtr – In Pop We Trust (WC)
- beabadoobee – He Gets Me So High (*) (WC)
- Blu DeTiger – Blondes
- Buffalo Paradise – Buffalo Paradise
- bülow – Revolver
- Calogero – Centre Ville
- Camila Cabello – Don’t Go Yet
- Charlie Collins – Just My Luck
- Chloe Lilac – 19
- Clara Luciani – Respire Encore (WC)
- Clypso – On Our Way (WC)
- Coeur De Pirate – Tu Peux Crever Là-Bas (*)
- Cold War Kids – What You Say
- Coral Palms – Something In The Air (WC)
- Daði Freyr & Ásdís – Feel The Love
- Dead Anyway – Pigs In Blankets
- Drew Sycamore – 45 Fahrenheit Girl (WC)
- Dual – Wipe Your Tears Away
- Dua Lipa – Love Again (WC)
- Dubstar – Tectonic Plates
- Dylan Cartlidge – Hang My Head (WC)
- Eyjaa – Don’t Forget About Me
- Fear Of Tigers – Tiger Blood
- Foals – Wake Me Up (WC)
- Foo Fighters – Waiting On A War
- Foxes – Sister Ray (WC)
- Grand Corps Malade – Des Gens Beaux
- Haerts – Days Go By (WC)
- Halsey – Honey
- Harry Styles – Treat People With Kindness (WC)
- Hawke – Pinch Me (Am I Dreaming?) (WC)
- Hope Tala – Tiptoeing (WC)
- Jaguar Jonze – Who Died And Made You King? (WC)
- Japanese Breakfast – Paprika
- Jonas Brøg (feat. Lilian Vieira) – I’m Your Nr. 1 [Brazilian Version] (WC)
- Julie Zenatti – France Et Jojo
- Kacey Musgraves – There Is A Light
- King Stingray – Milkumana
- Kinishao – Always In My Head
- Laura Mac – Garage Full Of Dreams (WC)
- Lauran Hibberd – Bleugh (WC)
- Lights – Prodigal Daughter
- Lissie – Hey Boy (WC)
- Lizzie Esau – Bitter Weather
- Lou Hayter – Time Out Of Mind
- Lucy Spraggan – Heartbreak Suites (*)
- Madison Olds – If You Wanna
- mags – I Can’t Get Over You
- Maisie Peters – Psycho
- Marina – Purge The Poison (WC)
- May-a – Central Station (WC)
- Mazy – Flowers (WC)
- Mike Posner (feat. James Valentine & Jacob Scesney) – Amor Fati
- Miles Kane feat. Corinne Bailey Rae – Nothing’s Ever Gonna Be Good Enough (WC)
- Miss Machine – Regarder Les Choses
- Monowhales – He Said/She Said (I Wait) (WC)
- Montaigne – Technicolour
- Niko Rubio – You Could Be The One (WC)
- Olivia Rodrigo – Good 4 U
- Orla Gartland – You’re Not Special, Babe
- Palaye Royale – No Love In LA
- Parcels – Comingback (WC)
- Päter – Obstinate Brain
- Philippine – Bah Non. (WC)
- Placebo – Beautiful James
- The Ramona Flowers feat. Nile Rodgers – Up All Night
- Render Ghosts – Eye Rhyme
- RoseeLu – Playing Alone (WC)
- Saint Djuni – All Of My Friends (WC)
- Self Esteem – How Can I Help You (WC)
- Slothrust – Once More For The Ocean (WC)
- Smith & Thell – Pixie’s Parasol (WC)
- Stefanie Heinzmann – Labyrinth (WC)
- Super db – Wait For Me
- Telenova – Bones (WC)
- Thunder Fox – Not For Sale
- Torres – Thirstier (WC)
- Tove Styrke – Start Walking
- Troi Irons – She Loves Me Not
- Vistas – Start Again
- Who – Hey! Get Out The Way (WC)
- Who Parked The Car – Candle Dance
- Willow feat. Travis Barker – Transparent Soul
- Wilsn – You Know Better (WC)
- Wolf Alice – How Can I Make It OK?
- Yelle – Noir (WC)
- Youth Sector – Self Exile (WC)
- Yuke – Stranger Still (WC)
(WC) ex Carte Blanche Music Wildcard
(*) album track
werner's weekly
Werner’s Weekly (week 27)
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:
- Slothrust – Once More For The Ocean (Wildcard this week)
- Lauran Hibberd – Bleugh (Wildcard last week)
- Joy Crookes – Feet Don’t Fail Me Now
- Leoniden (feat. Pabst) – Freaks
- Máni Orrason – Change The World
- Our Lady Peace (feat. Pussy Riot) – Stop Making Stupid People Famous
- Roe – Cruel
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: Fear Of Tigers, joan, The Reytons, and more.
