Carte Blanche Music

Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 41)

October 13th, 2023

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

Anomalys – This Place indie | pop | rock
Blossoms feat. Findlay – To Do List (After The Breakup) indie | pop
Dear Matilda – Anymore indie | rock
Jacoténe – Don’t Let Him Say Goodbye [Demo] pop | r&b | soul
Jemzel – Nomadic indie | pop
Jet City Sports Club – My Everything indie | pop
Lazy Sunsets – I Wish You Stayed indie | rock
Los Leo – This Love electronic | funk | indie | pop
Loreen – Is It Love pop
Lucy Daydream – Drippy indie | pop | rock
Matt Simons – Easy pop
The Vaccines – Sometimes, I Swear indie | rock
Sterre Weldring – Both Lost 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 41):
The Reytons – Let Me Breathe

indie | rock

October 11th, 2023

The Reytons have amassed over 110 million Spotify listens so far, and play huge venues. Apparently they have an impressive fan base, but they aren’t a household name to the general public yet. Indeed, yet, for I think their new single is a huge step in the right direction.

With Let Me Breathe, Jonny Yerrell, Joe O’Brien, Lee Holland and Jamie Todd created another high-octane, explosive cut. But it has that little extra that makes it even catchier than their other tracks. The four-piece deliver it with the bravado of Oasis circa Definitely Maybe. It comes with insatiable guitar lines, a walloping bass and an anthemic melody that could turn it into a classic. Lyrically, Let Me Breathe deals with needing to be free and breaking away.

The South Yorkshire indie rockers will release their third album Ballad Of A Bystander independently on 19 January 2024.

Let Me Breathe by The Reytons is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. This implies that it will be prominently displayed at the top of the blog for an entire week.

Recommended as well:
Broke Boy’s Cartel
Jealous Type

Follow The Reytons on Facebook | Instagram | X| 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 41)

indie | pop | rock

October 9th, 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:

grentperez & Lime Cordiale – Op-Shop Lover (Wildcard this week)
Stone – If You Wanna (Wildcard last week)
Baby Velvet – Wild Cherry Tree Drive
Molly Millington – Healing
Päter – Moonshine
Britta Raci – Embarrassing
Hayes Warner – Breadcrumbs

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.

Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators

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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 40)

indie | pop | rock

October 6th, 2023

I’ve seen better New Music Fridays, but yet I found five musical treasures for you. Added to the playlist this week, in a full female line-up:

Baby Velvet – Wild Cherry Tree Drive indie | pop
Molly Millington – Healing indie | pop
Päter – Moonshine indie | pop | rock
Britta Raci – Embarrassing indie | pop
Hayes Warner – Breadcrumbs indie | pop | rock

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

Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators

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Wildcard (week 40):
grentperez & Lime Cordiale – Op-Shop Lover

indie | pop

October 4th, 2023

While Europe is slowly but surely slipping into Autumn, our friends down under are embracing Spring. No wonder this collaboration of grentperez (real name: Grant Perez) and Lime Cordiale is such an über sunny tune. Both are Sydney locals after all.

Perez (21) found his audience on YouTube playing guitar and singing both covers and self-written songs from the age of 5. He put out four EP’s worth of original material in the last two years, collecting 300 million streams on Spotify alone. Lime Cordiale had their big break in 2020, 11 years after the band was formed. Their sophomore album 14 Steps To A Better You shot to #1 and spawned no less than nine singles.

Now, two of Aussie’s finest acts combine forces on a fresh and vibrant track. Op-Shop Lover combines grentperez’s smooth vocals with Lime Cordiale’s infectious melodies. Just like Macklemore’s 2012 hit, this summer anthem is an ode to thrift-shops.

Grentperez explains: ”Op-Shop Lover is a light-hearted, carefree jam. It’s about going to thrift stores with your partner, having fun trying on endless amounts of clothes, living life with no plans! The song to accompany your op-shop journey.”

“It was so fun putting this song together,” Lime Cordiale add. “We have the same sense of humour and musical taste. Very excited to release this to the world. Hopefully you find the record in an op shop one day.”

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

werner's weekly

Werner’s Weekly (week 40)

indie | pop | rock

October 2nd, 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:

Stone – If You Wanna (Wildcard this week)
Skylar – Why Men Love Bitches (Wildcard last week)
Finding Bella – We Are Forever
LP – Wild
Miss Machine – S.O.S.
The Reytons – Let Me Breathe
Two Door Cinema Club – Sure Enough

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.

Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators

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Additions to the Carte Blanche Music playlist (week 39)

dance | indie | pop | rock

September 29th, 2023

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

Bony Macaroni – When I Look At U (My Pupils Don’t Dilate) indie | pop | rock
Le Couleur – Addiction indie | pop
Dark Tropics – Carnival indie | pop
Lucas Estrada & Super-Hi – Stress You dance | indie | pop
Finding Bella – We Are Forever indie | pop | rock
grentperez & Lime Cordiale – Op-Shop Lover indie | pop
High Eyes – Floretta indie | pop | rock
Lany – Out Of My League indie | pop | rock
LP – Wild pop | rock
Miss Machine – S.O.S. indie | pop | rock
Nuala – Alien indie | pop
L’objectif – ITSA indie | pop | rock
Peach Cooler – Money Mouth indie | pop | rock
The Reytons – Let Me Breathe indie | rock
TESSÆ – Ligne D’arrivée indie | pop
Two Door Cinema Club – Sure Enough indie | rock
Wild Horse – Attraction indie | pop

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

Partly selected via input by Musosoup. Submit your music here. #sustainablecreators

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Wildcard (week 39):
Stone – If You Wanna

pop | rock

September 27th, 2023

2022 saw Liverpool band Stone break the 1 million Spotify streams mark for the first time. Their great single Money (Hope Ain’t Gone) did the trick. It eventually ended up on the quartet’s first EP Punkadonk. 27 October, they’ll release a follow-up EP, simply titled Punkadonk 2. It’ll serve as a prelude to Stone’s debut album, which they’re currently finishing in the United States.

The outfit’s sophomore EP will explore identity, ego, and the impossible standards felt by young people. It features previous singles Left Right Forward and I Gotta Feeling. Also included is their new single If You Wanna, which sounds like an updated version of classic ‘90s Britpop. No wonder, if you know Stone frontman Fin Power is the son of John Power, of The La’s and Cast fame.

The band explain: “With If You Wanna, we wanted to write the type of song you would wanna sing along to with your friends. The song is about finding positivity in this colourful Gen Z experience.”

If You Wanna by Stone is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. This implies that it will be prominently displayed at the top of the blog for an entire week.

Recommended as well:
Money (Hope Ain’t Gone)

Follow Stone on Facebook | Instagram | X | Spotify

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

werner's weekly

Werner’s Weekly (week 39)

electronic | indie | orchestral | pop | rock

September 25th, 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: