Carte Blanche Music

Werner’s Weekly (week 16)

April 17th, 2023

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:

Oscar Lang – A Song About Me (Wildcard this week)
Lottie Gray – Get Lost (Wildcard last week)
Alta Falls – Tried To Forget About
Emiline – Oh, Honey
Hallie – Cut It Off
Lucky Lo – Yes To Myself
Oh Land – Bleeed

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.

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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 15)

April 15th, 2023

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.
Follow (click ‘♥’) to hear the best new music first.

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Wildcard (week 15):
Oscar Lang – A Song About Me

indie | orchestral | pop | rock

April 12th, 2023

First emerging in 2017, London-based Oscar Lang has produced numerous EP’s and two full-length albums already. All of them of the same high quality. By the sound of his new single, the talented multi-instrumentalist has no intentions of lowering his standards.

A Song About Me is a classic pop tune in more ways than one. It’s timeless and drenched in beautifully arranged strings. All in all an ambitious piece of art. Lyrically, it’s a song about lost love.

Lang says about the track: “A Song About Me is a break-up song that is honest and open but self-aware. I wanted to write in a similar world to You’re So Vain by Carly Simon or Love Song by Sara Bareilles. A break-up song for all the people that have had their hearts broken, it’s got bit of bite but at the end of the day means well. I took influence for the sound from classic songwriters like Billy Joel, Paul McCartney and mixed them with a bit of ‘90s Britpop a la The Verve and Oasis.”

A Song About Me was produced by Rich Turvey (The Coral, Blossoms). It’s the first track to be taken from Lang’s forthcoming album Look Now, which is scheduled for release on 21 July.

This week, A Song About Me by Oscar Lang is the Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. That means it’ll be featured prominently at the top of the blog for a full seven days.

Recommended as well:
21^st Century Hobby
Get Out
Apple Juice

Follow Oscar Lang on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify

In the Wildcards 2023 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.

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Werner’s Weekly (week 15)

indie | latin | pop | rock | tropical

April 10th, 2023

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:

Lottie Gray – Get Lost (Wildcard this week)
Jesse Hite – How Did I (Wildcard last week)
Pip Blom – Tiger
Chris Corey – Baby Steps
MisterWives – Out Of Your Mind
Stellie – Softly
Yuksek feat. Voyou & Láura – Hypra-Sensorial

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.

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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 14)

April 8th, 2023

It certainly was a Good Friday for great new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):

Altered By Mom – Everygirl indie | rock
Pip Blom – Tiger indie | pop | rock
Callisto – Surf Blood indie | rock
Champs – Things I Don’t Know About indie | pop
Ciel – Somebody indie | rock
Chris Corey – Baby Steps indie | pop | rock
The Covasettes – Duvet Thief indie | rock
Dizzy – Open Wide indie | pop
Lou Elliotte – Single pop
Go-Jo – Mrs. Hollywood indie | pop
Oscar Lang – A Song About Me indie | orchestral | pop | rock
MisterWives – Out Of Your Mind indie | rock
Yoyo Nagase – I Hate My Roommate indie | pop
Jacob Reddy – Wear The Crown indie | rock
Saibh Skelly – Superficial indie | pop
Sophisticated Dingo – Radio On indie | rock
Sorry Girls – Aftermath indie | pop
Stay Lunar – Distance indie | pop | rock
Stellie – Softly indie | pop
Stone – Left Right Forward rock
Ten Tonnes – Dancing, Alone indie | pop | rock
Yuksek feat. Voyou & Láura – Hypra-Sensorial indie | latin | pop | tropical

Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
Follow (click ‘♥’) to hear the best new music first.

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Wildcard (week 14):
Lottie Gray – Get Lost

indie | pop | rock

April 5th, 2023

19-year-old singer-songwriter Lottie Gray was born on the south Norfolk coastline, but is currently based in Manchester. She spent most of her childhood nurturing her imagination. Influenced by the likes of Joni Mitchell, Taylor Swift and Kacey Musgraves, she writes exactly how she feels. Combining elements of country, pop and rock, her music is not easy to be pigeon-holed.

Get Lost is only Gray’s second single. It follows hot on the heals of her debut track Daffodil Baby. For this sophomore song, she swaps out acoustic guitar and piano for distortion and synths. And let’s not forget to mention the cow bells. This catchy tune is a perfect showcase of both her raw and honest lyrics, and her powerful vocals. An upbeat pop-rock track, Get Lost tells the story of someone who is a waste of time, expelling them from her life through this.

Gray’s second single will be followed by an EP in April. With her newly formed band, she’s poised to share her work with a wider audience.

In a bid to further expose this talented artist, Get Lost by Lottie Gray is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. That means it’ll be featured prominently at the top of the blog for a whole week.

Follow Lottie Gray on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify

In the Wildcards 2023 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.

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Werner’s Weekly (week 14)

electronic | indie | latin | pop | rock

April 3rd, 2023

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:

Jesse Hite – How Did I (Wildcard this week)
Dande & The Lion – Children Of The Hour (Wildcard last week)
The Cat Empire – Thunder Rumbles
Deadletter – The Snitching Hour
Notchyy feat. Jess Pink – U&I
psychosurfer – Waves That Kill
The Ramona Flowers – Enter The Room

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.

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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 13)

electronic | indie | latin | pop | rock

April 1st, 2023

Not all, but only the *best* new music. Added to the playlist this week (alphabetically):

Sahara Beck – Hunter electronic | indie | pop
Louise Burns – Bloom indie | pop
The Cat Empire – Thunder Rumbles indie | latin | pop
Deadletter – The Snitching Hour indie | pop | rock
Glob – Gaffer Tape indie | pop | rock
Lottie Gray – Get Lost indie | pop | rock
Kingdom Calm – In My Mind indie | rock
Alex Lahey – They Wouldn’t Let Me In indie | rock
Francesca Luker – Nobody Seems indie | pop
Notchyy feat. Jess Pink – U&I electronic | indie | pop
Parker Fans – Bricks indie | pop | rock
psychosurfer – Waves That Kill indie | pop | rock
The Ramona Flowers – Enter The Room indie | pop
Tillie – Bless Ur Heart indie | pop | rock

Check them all in the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist.
Follow (click ‘♥’) to hear the best new music first.

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Wildcard (week 13):
Jesse Hite – How Did I

indie | rock

March 29th, 2023

Jesse Hite was born in the United States. Nowadays, he lives in the French countryside as a musician, producer and singer-songwriter. He has taken his lyrics and songwriting to a whole new level by combining his experience exploring and living on the West Coast of America, travels through Asia and Europe and time spent living in France. His songs are groovy, atmospheric tracks with poppy hooks and deep stories.

How Did I is the latest example. It’s a great tune with a catchy chorus and a dark, yet danceable groove. It comes with heavy drums, guitars, vocals and synths with melodic overlays. Lyrically, Hite explains, the song has multiple meanings: “I was really talking about:

Being trapped in a cycle of depression (how did I get here in my head after being such a happy kid)
Feeling trapped during the pandemic (being locked in a ‘cage’; confined between four walls)
Thinking about how I got to France and the chances/circumstances that must have happened for me to write music in France

All related to this initial question, ‘How did I end up here?’.”

The track is slated to appear om his long awaited EP Volume 1, which will be released in June 2023.

Jesse Hite’s new single How Did I is this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. That means it’ll be featured prominently at the top of the blog for a full seven days.

Recommended as well:
When It All Comes Down

Follow Jesse Hite on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify

In the Wildcards 2023 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.

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Werner’s Weekly (week 13)

electronic | gospel | indie | pop | rock

March 27th, 2023

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:

Dande & The Lion – Children Of The Hour (Wildcard this week)
Caity Baser – Pretty Boys (Wildcard last week)
Bakermat (feat. Rhys Lewis) – Good Feeling
Bloxx – Television Promises
Allie Kelly – Gunshy
The Rions – Scary Movies
Hailee Steinfeld – SunKissing

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.

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