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Werner’s Weekly (week 3)
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:
- Black Honey – Believer (Wildcard this week)
- Philippine – Bah Non. (Wildcard last week)
- Cold Years (feat. RR Gospel Choir) – Good As Hell
- Crooked Steps – Catherine
- Declan McKenna – Rapture
- Lucy Spraggan – Animal
- The Vices – Looking For Faces
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: Biffy Clyro, The Veronicas, Foo Fighters, Tom Jones, Maxïmo Park, and more.
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Town Of Cats – Lemons
There are pop songs, rock tracks, dance tunes, etc. And then there are the ditties that are impossible to categorize. These are ‘genre defying’, as they say. Musical melting pots, as it were. This is one in the latter category.
But how about a short introduction to start with? Town Of Cats are from Brighton, a town that is slowly taking over from London as the musical capital of Great-Britain. Other Carte Blanche Music favourites from Brighton are Black Honey, The Magic Gang, Lime, MarthaGunn and Yonaka. As well as Fatboy Slim, The Kooks and Royal Blood, of course.
The last few years, Town Of Cats built themselves a solid reputation by ripping up festivals around their home town with their explosive cocktail of styles. Hip hop, jazz, punk, afro-beat, (prog) rock, funk … it’s all there, and more. The best reference I can think of, is a cross between Dog Eat Dog and Fishbone. Remember them? They were fantastic as well!
Lemons is Town Of Cats’ new single. With its lively rhythms, blasts of brass and guitar, a good old-fashioned sax solo, and sing-along vocals, it bursts with energy. Not the music you’re likely to hear on the radio (which is plain stupid, if you’d ask me), but you can easily imagine this band to grow into one of the huge future live bands. Can’t wait for the festival season to re-open. But way ahead of that, on 28 August, Town Of Cats release their sophomore album The Elephant’s Room.
This whole week, Carte Blanche Music combines the sweet and the sour, as Lemons is the new Wildcard. They don’t come any wilder than this!
In the Wildcards 2020 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 33)
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:
- Altered By Mom – Walking With The Enemy (Wildcard this week)
- The Magic Gang – Make Time For Change (Wildcard last week)
- Badflower – 30
- Black Honey – Beaches
- Leoniden – L.O.V.E.
- Lola Lennox – Back At Wrong
- Sycco – Dribble
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: Midnight Oil, Saint Raymond, Yello, and more.
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Penelope Isles – Leipzig
There is something in the water in Brighton. Yonaka, Knife Club, Creeping Jean, Lume, Yumi & The Weather and Demob Happy are all fine examples of new artists from the city. And Fatboy Slim, The Kooks, Royal Blood and Black Honey call Brighton home as well. Today, I’d like to add Penelope Isles to that list.
The quartet is led by siblings and dual songwriters Jack and Lily Wolter, and completed by Jack Sowton and Becky Redford. They released their debut album Until The Tide Creeps In only two weeks ago. Leipzig is the third single off it.
The video was filmed in Berlin, Munich, Hannover, Diest and Luxembourg while the band were on tour in Europe last year. The Wolters say about it: “We would constantly be on the lookout for perfect spots along the way and would keep our jeans and white t shirts folded up in a pile in the van ready to go. It’s funny that we actually forgot to shoot anything whilst in Leipzig!”
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 25)
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:
- Jay Som – Superbike (Wildcard this week)
- Rammstein – Ausländer (Wildcard last week)
- Altered By Mom – Hear That Sound
- Jesse Merineau – She Knows
- Flay – Sister
- Sløtface – Telepathetic
- Sorcha Richardson – Don’t Talk About It
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: Black Honey, Eckhardt & The House feat. Bella Hay, Kaiser Chiefs, Volbeat, 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 32)
This summer is a great time for sun lovers and music lovers alike. Last week alone, I had no trouble finding great new music to introduce to you. I’ve added fresh tracks by Black Honey, Chvrches & Wednesday Campanella, Dashboard Confessional, Death Cab For Cutie, Morcheeba, Neneh Cherry, Robyn, and many emerging artists to the Carte Blanche Music playlist, a list that doesn’t pretend to be complete, but relevant. It only features the best songs the year 2018 produced so far.
At the same time, Werner’s Weekly only presents the absolute highlights. As such, it’s your compass to the music that matters. You can check the list below via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar and learn more about each track by clicking the links:
- Manic Street Preachers – People Give In (Wildcard this week)
- Young Gun Silver Fox – Kingston Boogie (Wildcard last week)
- Dreams – Love To Live
- Just Loud feat. Debbie Harry – Soul Train
- Maggie Rogers – Give A Little
- Roy Paci & Aretuska feat. Willie Peyote – Salvagente
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 19)
Biffy Clyro, Black Honey, DMA’s, Frank Turner, Guns N’ Roses, Kailee Morgue and Liam Gallagher… They all came out with great new (or newish) music last week. Missed it? Then check my 2018 container playlist Carte Blanche Music, that is constantly updated with the best new tunes. All of the above – and 393 more – are there. Nearly a full day of highly recommended stuff for your listening pleasure.
Seven of the featured songs are below. The best of the best new music, compiled in Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters:
- Hooverphonic – Romantic (Wildcard this week)
- Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson – Bad Dreams (Wildcard last week)
- Blossoms – Cool Like You
- Foé – Qu’est-Ce Que T’as Là?
- Meg Myers – Numb
- Parcels – Tieduprightnow
- The Nectars – We Will Run
Follow the links for more info and hear the tracks in full via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar!
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 47)
With the likes of Bad Sounds, Black Honey, Luis Fonsi & Demi Lovato, Sea Girls and Yungblud added to my container playlist Carte Blanche Music in the last week, what could possibly go wrong this week? Nothing really!
But to make sure you don’t miss out on the best new music of the past seven days, I compiled a new edition of Werner’s Weekly for you. Check it below, listen via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar and/or read more information about each of the tracks by clicking the links.
Enjoy the ride and follow my playlist for daily updates!
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Inheaven – World On Fire
Inheaven is a female-fronted rock band from London. They’re fishing in the same pond as Honeyblood, Deap Vally and Black Honey, but for me there can’t be enough bands like this.
Hopefully their mix of shoegazing and grunge, combined with a do it yourself mentality, is about to counter-balance the quantity of electronica in the current pop landscape. World On Fire is Inheaven’s new single!
