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Piroshka – What’s Next?
Late in 2018, Miki Berenyi, KJ ‘Moose’ McKillop, Mick Conroy and Justin Welch (members of British indie bands Lush, Moose, Modern English and Elastica) launched their first collaborative single as Piroshka. Everlastingly Yours immediately struck a chord. What’s next, you ask? Well, their debut album Brickbat is scheduled for release on 15 February. But first, they put out a new single.
Aptly titled What’s Next?, the track is a euphoric guitar pop song, which recalls The Cranberries, in a good way. Berenyi explains: “The lyrics are inspired by the shock and fallout regarding current political upheavals – how this finger-pointing and rage and blame are so damaging, how we need to get back some kind of solidarity if we possibly can because the divisions between us are playing into certain people’s hands.”
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I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Alice Merton – Learn To Live
A year and a half after her break-through single No Roots, and exactly one year after I saw her promising performance at showcase festival ESNS, Alice Merton delivers her debut album Mint. Next to No Roots, her singles Lash Out, Why So Serious and Funny Business are present, so it’s definitely worth your time.
The first song you’ll hear when you listen to the album is Learn To Live. A great track, with the same kind of thumping bass line as the one that made the German singer a star in the rest of Europe. This is Alice Merton in mint condition, ready for the rest of the world!
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I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Giant Rooks – Wild Stare
One of the very first recommendations on this blog was for New Estate by Giant Rooks. This was the title track of their second EP. Since then, the German indie band – whose members are all only in their early 20‘s – played a lot of festivals, but they didn’t release any new music. Until now…
Wild Stare is the band’s new single. A catchy song, tightly built around Frederik Rabe’s characteristic voice. A song that will certainly do well during their ‘Wild Stare Tour’, which will bring them to Great-Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Germany in April and May 2019. Around that time, they’ll also release their debut album.
Giant Rooks’s musical influences give away what you may expect: timeless British and American alternative pop, a hint of folk, a touch of electronics, driving rhythms and catchy vocal lines.
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I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Perfect Son – It’s For Life
Last summer, I recommended the song Malomiasteczkowy by Dawid Podsiadło. A great song, but ‘difficult’, for it was sung in Polish. In that respect, It’s For Life by Perfect Son stands a better chance of being picked up outside his home country Poland, as it has English lyrics. The first good signs are already there; the song entered the European Border Breakers Chart at #50 last week. This position was achieved through airplay in Poland and Slovakia, but hopefully the song’s visibility in the EBBChart will stimulate radio stations in other countries to play the song as well.
Perfect Son is the stage name of Polish singer and producer Tobiasz Biliński. Sometime in 2016, just as the began to find success with his electropop project Coldair, he decided it was time for a radical change. Bilifiski restarted his career as Perfect Son, making complex yet accessible pop music. It even got him signed to legendary record label Sub Pop, once the home of The Jesus & Mary Chain, Nirvana, The Postal Service, Saint Etienne and The Shins, and currently of The Afghan Whigs, Fleet Foxes and Soundgarden, to name but a few.
Cast, Perfect Son’s debut album, is slated for release on 15 Februari 2019. It’s For Life is the long player’s first single.
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I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Corine – Un Air De Fête
After two EP’s, French nu-disco queen Corine just released her first full album Un Air De Fête. A long-player with equal parts groove, sensuality and kitsch, where Giorgio Moroder, Nouvelle Vague and even Jean Michel Jarre are never far away. But the singer with the Jane Fonda looks also explores chanson territory in the few ballads present. All in all, the album couldn’t possibly have sounded more French.
Apart from Cocktail, all Corine’s past singles are there: Pourquoi Pourquoi, Il Fait Chaud, Maquillage and Première Traversée. Pourquoi Pourquoi (with its hilarious video) surely deserves to be re-released, now that Corine is ‘hot’ in every sense. But out of the other tunes, the album’s title track is easily my favourite.
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I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Piroshka – Everlastingly Yours
Miki Berenyi, frontwoman of British shoegazers Lush, has revealed a new project, where she is joined by her partner, KJ McKillop (from the band Moose), as well as their friends, Mick Conroy (Modern English) and Justin Welch (Elastica). Their indie supergroup is named Piroshka, after the Hungarian word for Little Red Riding Hood. Debut album Brickbat is on its way, but the band already shared their first ever single, Everlastingly Yours.
Although it’s a dreamy guitar pop song, don’t be mistaken: Berenyi sings about cruelty and violation. “Trample my dreams on the ground / Tear up my flowers / And scatter the petals around” for instance. Or: “I’m not afraid to reach down inside to something within me / That gives me the power to rip out his heart / And shatter his bones with a smile.” The track closes just as optimistic: “Nobody here / Ever escapes / With no blood on their hands.” Party time, peeps! 😉
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I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Sophie & The Giants – Waste My Air
Glad you guys like Sophie & The Giants as much as I do! Last week, I could reveal that my recommendation of their single Bulldog was the most read Carte Blanche Music blog in October. In the meantime, the band also managed to enter the European Border Breakers Chart with the song.
Last week, singer Sophie Scott, guitarist Toby Holmes, bass player Bailey Stapledon and drummer Chris Hill released their first EP Adolescence. In a week and a half, opening track Waste My Air has developed into the band’s most popular song on Spotify. Four tracks into their career, it is indeed their most accessible tune so far. I wouldn’t be surprised if (radio) playlist curators would pick it up, enabling Sophie & The Giants’s well-deserved definitive break-through.
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I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
border breaker, single trackAngèle feat. Roméo Elvis – Tout Oublier
Angèle feat. Roméo Elvis – Tout Oublier
Angèle Van Laeken is one of the most successful young artists to have come out of Belgium the past year. Understandably, for there’s not much not to like about her. She’s cute, sturdy, funny and above all: very talented. Her songs are smart and poppy; contemporary but rooted in tradition at the same time. This provides her tunes with a sense of timelessness. On top of that, her videos are colourful and full of humour.
As a result of this whole package, all of her singles to date (La Loi De Murphy, Je Veux Tes Yeux, La Thune and Jalousie) have become hits in the European Border Breakers Chart. Apart from Belgium, especially France is fond of her songs.
22-year-old Angèle is from a musical family: her father Marka was in the band Allez Allez and her brother Roméo Elvis is a popular Belgian rap star. Her new single Tout Oublier brings brother and sister together. Could this be her (and his) break-through beyond the French-speaking world? We’ll have to see, but for music lovers who feel adventurous, this is a great song to discover.
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I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Sophie & The Giants – Bulldog
At Carte Blanche Music, we love female vocals. That’s why they’re all over the blog. Here’s another great example…
Sophie & The Giants are a young British band, consisting of singer Sophie Scott (who’s soaring voice lies somewhere between Florence Welch and Alice Merton), guitarist Toby Holmes, bass player Bailey Stapledon and drummer Chris Hill. A year ago, they moved to Sheffield to collaborate with Reverend & The Makers frontman Jon McClure on new tracks.
The first fruit of these sessions was the band’s debut single Monsters, but the follow-up is really gigantic (pun intended). Bulldog is, indeed, a beast of a song. A great way to start a career!
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I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Kara Marni – Move
When I recommended Kara Marni’s debut single Golden in October last year, I called her ‘one to watch for 2018 (and beyond)’. For this prediction to come true, she has another three months to force her well-deserved breakthrough. I’m confident however, this new single will do the trick. Not in the least because it reminds me vaguely of Estelle’s 2008 hit American Boy.
Kara Marni’s new single is called Move, and indeed, it’s another step forward. A song about turning your back on a toxic situation, Move is about empowerment, and knowing your own worth.
As far as I’m concerned, Kara can be just as confident about her future. I stand by the claim I made last year!
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I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
