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The Lighthouse – Pretty Classy
Following two EP’s in 2016 and 2017, The Lighthouse are about to put their debut album in the spotlights. The long-player, Whatever Comes Our Way, will see the light of day on 27 September. Ahead of it, the Belgian electronic pop band release its 4th, bass-heavy single.
Pretty Classy sounds fiercer than its predecessors, thanks to well-placed bursts of guitar over a bed of synths. A roaring mix between melodical alt-pop and stadium guitar rock.
Recommended as well:
The Lighthouse – Tel Aviv
The Lighthouse – Catch Fire
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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The Lighthouse – Tel Aviv
Last November, Belgian band The Lighthouse scored a Carte Blanche Music Wildcard with their single Catch Fire. Now, three months on, they drop another dose of instant happiness.
Tel Aviv is telling the classic ‘the grass is greener on the other side of the fence’-story, where a woman is obsessed by an ad for Tel Aviv and desperately wants to go there to escape her everyday life. Not realizing that there’s more going on in the region than palm-tree beaches. The lyrics are written from both the man’s and the woman’s point of view, so the song takes you along on her energetic, uplifting dream-holiday and his incomprehension of her sudden urges.
Ahead of their upcoming debut album, which is expected in September, The Lighthouse will slowly drop some new tracks. Tel Aviv is the second, and already makes curious for the third!
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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The Lighthouse – Catch Fire
Last week, I introduced you to The Lighthouse’s new single. In the meantime, this great song really ‘caught fire’ with me (pun intended). Therefore, Catch Fire is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard! This means that The Lighthouse, as a true beacon, will feature prominently on the site for a whole week, shining its light upon all of us.
The Lighthouse are 5 Belgian guys who share the love of melodically well-written pop songs. They describe their musical cocktail of polyphonic vocals, guitars, keys and swinging drums as ‘songs that feel like Fridays’.
So far, the band put out two EPs: the self-released Let’s Make A Scene, and Joyride, which was backed by Sony Music. Despite the latter EP’s success, and the doors it opened to stages, festivals and radio stations in Belgium and abroad, The Lighthouse decided to go back to the indie-route for upcoming releases. Their debut album is already planned for the autumn of 2019.
In the Wildcards 2018 playlist you can find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
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The Lighthouse – Catch Fire
The Lighthouse are 5 Belgian guys who share the love of melodically well-written pop songs. They describe their musical cocktail of polyphonic vocals, guitars, keys and swinging drums as ‘songs that feel like Fridays’.
So far, the band put out two EPs: the self-released Let’s Make A Scene, and Joyride, which was backed by Sony Music. Despite the latter EP’s success, and the doors it opened to stages, festivals and radio stations in Belgium and abroad, The Lighthouse decided to go back to the indie-route for upcoming releases. Their debut album is already planned for the autumn of 2019.
This week marks the release of the long player’s first single. Catch Fire finds two people waking up after a wild night re-connecting with each other, asking the question if their relationship will ever really ‘catch fire’. A well-crafted sophisticated pop song that will surely delight the fans of bands like The 1975.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 40)
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:
- Georgia – Never Let You Go (Wildcard this week)
- Mélodie Lauret – 23h28 (Wildcard last week)
- Ana & The Changes – Beneath My Lungs / I Turned 30 Yesterday
- Lizzo – Good As Hell
- Madame Psychosis – Kapow
- Sheila & The Kit – Mike
- The Lighthouse – Pretty Classy
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: Liam Gallagher, Sløtface, Tegan & Sara, Temples, and many more.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 11)
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:
- Indigo – Distant Lullaby (Wildcard this week)
- Sundara Karma – Little Smart Houses (Wildcard last week)
- Alphabeat – Shadows
- Hatchie – Without A Blush
- SWMRS – Lose Lose Lose
- The Lighthouse – Tel Aviv
- The Pale White – Medicine
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: The Black Keys, Cage The Elephant, George Ezra, Sam Fender, The Kooks, and many more.
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Carte Blanche Music Top 2018
Ahead of your favourites among this year’s Carte Blanche Music recommendations, which I publish on New Year’s Day, I round off 2018 with my personal choice.
The last year, I introduced you to 1104 great new songs via my container playlist Carte Blanche Music; over 65 hours of music. Exactly 500 of those translated into a written endorsement through this blog. In other words: only one out of each 11 suggestions (and one fifth of all of my posts) made it onto the Carte Blanche Music Top 2018.
I’m very proud of this year-end list, as it differs largely from the majority of charts you’ll find. Just a few statistics:
- 58% of the tracks feature female lead vocals (up from an already impressive 43% in the Carte Blanche Music Top 2017)
- 43% of the tracks are guitar-based (rock is dead? Think again!)
- Apart from British and American acts, my list contains artists from Australia, Norway, the Netherlands, Canada, Spain, France, Belgium, Ireland, Estonia, Germany, Sweden, Hungary and South Korea
- By consequence, you’ll not only hear lyrics in English, but also in French, Hungarian, Spanish, Portuguese and Korean
- Needless to say, my year-end list contains no proper hits whatsoever 😉
The Carte Blanche Music Top 2018 features 100 tracks by 100 different artists. As making that choice was hard enough, the songs are sorted alphabetically. Just use the shuffle button if you prefer another order 😉.
I hope you enjoy listening to the list via the Spotify player. Meanwhile, you can read my original recommendations through the links below.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 50)
In the past, when people were only exposed to music that was released in their own country, December was a month where nothing much happened, as far as new songs were concerned. Nowadays, with millions of artists all around the world putting their music on platforms like Spotify, available for everybody all over the planet, things are different. Of course, this month, you need to plow through all the well-intentioned Christmas mayhem (don’t look any further, these are the all-time highlights), but then you’ll find a wealth of great new tracks. By Charlotte Gainsbourg, Kakkmaddafakka, KT Tunstall, Smallpools or Underworld, for instance.
Below you’ll find the cream of the crop: Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters. Treat your ears via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar and/or click the links for more info:
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 49)
Although the same number of new tracks is released on Spotify as in other parts of the year, the quality shows the end of 2018 is near. Or perhaps it’s just me getting more critical as another great music year is drawing to a close 😉.
Anyhow, last week I only added brand new songs by Alice Merton, Def Leppard, Joe Jackson, MØ (feat. Foster The People) and a few others to my constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
The absolute highlights, however, are reserved for Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters. The links point to my earlier recommendations, and all of the tracks are in the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar for your listening pleasure as well.
- The Lighthouse – Catch Fire (Wildcard this week)
- Starcrawler – Hollywood Ending (Wildcard last week)
- Bent Van Looy – Make Believe
- Caezar – Somewhere New
- Corine – Un Air De Fête
- Jenifer – Hey Jen
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Alienation
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Your favourites (November 2018)
After being released in mid August, my recommendation for Gimme That Sunshine by Sir Notch immediately became one of your favourite blogs in that same month, as well as in September. After ending just outside the Top 10 in October, there was renewed interest in November. A lot of interest, for the summery song by Dutch singer-songwriter Christon Kloosterboer’s alter ego was the most visited page on Carte Blanche Music in the past month. The #2 is even a month older. There, just like last month, we find July-released La Vague by DRMS & L’Isle.
And please allow me to be extra happy with three more Dutch entries: Nona at #3, Jonas Brøg with his Danish niece Laura Mathilde at #4, and Audio Adam at #7. I’m proud to have been able to introduce them to an international audience.
Please find the full Top 10 (your Top 10 of favourite tracks/blogs in November) below. Of course you’ll also find them all (and over a thousand tracks more) in my constantly updated 2018 container playlist Carte Blanche Music).
- Sir Notch – Gimme That Sunshine
- DRMS & L’Isle – La Vague
- Nona – Last To Know
- Jonas Brøg feat. Laura Mathilde – I Think Of You I Cry (WC)
- Sophie & The Giants – Waste My Air
- Ana & The Changes feat. Dan Byron – Take My Hand
- The Lighthouse – Catch Fire (WC)
- Audio Adam – Emma Watson
- Aviator Stash – Shot Song
- Creeping Jean – Bandit
