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Werner’s Weekly (week 20)

May 11th, 2020

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:

Shade – Morningmaker (Wildcard this week)
MisterWives – Rock Bottom (Wildcard last week)
Be Charlotte – Lights Off
Chvrches – Forever [Separate But Together]
Maria Mena – Not OK
Razorlight – Burn, Camden, Burn
White Denim – I Don’t Understand Rock And Roll

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 1975, Blanche, Hayley Williams, and many more.

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Nana Effah-Bekoe is a talented Dutch singer-songwriter. After playing bass, guitar and providing backing vocals in a plethora of bands, she’s now working on a solo career. She puts out her own music since 2017, using the Nana Adjoa moniker.

I immediately fell for her beautiful debut single The Resolution, which was a Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. Three years and three EP’s later, one can only hope she’s working on her first full album. In anticipation of news about a long-player, Adjoa drops a new single. An aptly-titled track, for the singer and multi-instrumentalist sounds stronger than ever before. Both alternative and accessible, this is the song that could propel her to the larger audience she deserves. An original tune by a huge talent.

Recommended as well:
Nana Adjoa – The Resolution

For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.

indie | pop

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Kailee Morgue – This Is Why I’m Hot

May 9th, 2020

Kailee Morgue just released her second EP Here In Your Bedroom. She says about it: “In female pop, there’s more anger than ever. There are more women screaming and being very forward about how they feel. I love that energy, so I tried to translate the power of older hardcore music into modern production. I realized you can make pop music with a punk spirit and I allowed myself to embrace the attitude.”

This Is Why I’m Hot is my favourite track on the EP. A contagious, rocking, self-confident song that was inspired by Goldfinger. She even named the EP after a favourite Goldfinger song from their self-titled 1996 album. Meanwhile, she also cites Taylor Swift and Halsey as current influences. This results in a bundle of strong pop songs full of attitude and drenched in guitars.

Recommended as well:
Kailee Morgue – Discovery

For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.

pop | rock

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Boniface – It’s A Joke

May 9th, 2020

When Boniface (a.k.a. Micah Visser) released his self-titled debut album early this year, It’s A Joke immediately stood out. Now, it’s his new single. A catchy, sophisticated, tightly produced pop song that fans of The 1975 will love.

The tune’s energy is also represented in the video, which pays homage to Adam Ant and ABBA. It was shot in Toronto, just one day before lockdown commenced in Canada. “It’s weird to think about now,” Micah Visser remembers, ”but I’m glad it’s the last thing we got to do. Basically, we just wanted to have fun with this one. And we did!”

Boniface is currently spending the quarantine period to continue writing, taking full advantage to utilise a newly built home studio. So, expect new material sooner rather than later.

For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.

indie | pop | rock

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Demi Lovato (feat. Travis Barker) – I Love Me [Emo Version]

May 9th, 2020

Carte Blanche Music is all about new songs. I love to introduce you to artists you might not have heard of before, but a great new track by a well-known act deserves a recommendation as well. Either way, credibility is never an issue when I make my selections. Credibility is a subjective concept that biases the opinion of snobs, who often mistake credibility with quality (an equally subjective concept). I’m not a snob, I just like great (new) music.

Well, that was a very long introduction to the new Demi Lovato single. Or rather, a new version of her earlier single I Love Me. Last year, Travis Barker made a remix of Maggie Lindemann’s Friends Go. The former blink-182 drummer turned it into a track that didn’t sound out of place in his ex band’s catalogue. Now, he applies the same formula to Demi Lovato. His Emo Version of I Love Me turns the pop track into a driving rock song. Lovato’s ace vocals sound great on a bed of pounding drums and soaring guitars.

If Barker would be commissioned to compile a whole album full of rockified pop songs, I’d be the first to buy it.

For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.

pop | rock

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The Academic – Anything Could Happen

May 9th, 2020

The Academic’s upcoming EP was produced by former Kaiser Chiefs drummer and songwriter Nick Hodgson. Ahead of its release, the Irish quartet present their new single Anything Could Happen. As blissful as it’s cheerful, it’s a real feel-good song, made to sing along to.

For you older music lovers out there, there’s a lot to like as well. The Academic don’t exactly hide their influences. The guitar part in Anything Could Happen has been borrowed from Gary Numan’s 1979 hit Cars, and it also contains the ‘ooh-ooh’ from The Rolling Stones’ Sympathy For The Devil. Nothing to be ashamed of, I’d say.

Recommended as well:
The Academic – Fake ID

For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.

indie | pop | rock

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Moscow Apartment – Halfway

May 9th, 2020

Their band name notwithstanding, Moscow Apartment consists of Canadian singers-and-songwriters Brighid Fry and Pascale Padilla. The teenagers released their self-titled debut EP in 2017 and picked up a Toronto Independent Music Award, a Canadian Folk Music Award and a Canadian Songwriting Award within a year of their formation.

Their sophomore EP Better Daughter is set to be released in June 2020. Ahead of this second EP, Moscow Apartment released two singles simultaneously: Halfway and Meredith Palmer.

Besides band mates, Brighid ans Pascale are also best friends. And best friends can have big fights. Halfway is the result of one of those. They explain: “One day we had a big fight and Pascale wrote the beginning of our new single, Halfway, as a way to ask Brighid for forgiveness. Brighid wrote the second verse and worked on the chorus, giving birth to this song. We produced Halfway with Guillermo Subauste (mixed by Scotty Hard) and approached its recording in an experimental and relaxed mood.”

The songs on the new EP will showcase the writing talents of the two teens. But in the last year and a half, they have also co-written with three-time Grammy winner Chin Injeti, Shalom, Dave Thomson and Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew.

Recommended as well:
Moscow Apartment – Orange

For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.

indie | pop

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Videoclub – Enfance 80

May 9th, 2020

Although Adèle Castillon and Matthieu Reynaud were born early this century, their music is firmly rooted in the 1980s. The couple’s electro-pop songs combine a youthful innocence with grown-up elements from the French chanson tradition. But their fun, colourful and romantic videos are equally important. Logical, for a duo that is named Videoclub. This way, each of their releases so far formed a clever package. All in all, these two are inevitably destined for stardom.

Their new single Enfance 80 is another classic French pop song. They manage to combine full-on ‘80s influences with modern production into a timeless masterpiece. The animated video, including cassettes, roller skates and video games, is an ode to the ‘80s in itself. Glamourous stuff!

Videoclub are currently working on their debut album. I can’t wait!

Recommended as well:
Videoclub – En Nuit
Videoclub – Roi

For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.

chanson | electronic | hip hop | pop

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Robert Skarsbakk – Wars

May 9th, 2020

Robert Skarsbakk, from Norway, is a man of many talents. He graduated in sign language (for the deaf and deaf blind), and is an industrial designer. Next to that, he’s a self-made musician and producer. In the latter capacity, he recorded two albums so far. He released his latest, Maybe Someday, just a week ago.

Wars is the most recent single off the album. It delicately combines acoustic and electric guitars. I don’t like to pigeon-hole, but as a reference: think Counting Crows vs. The War On Drugs. You can leave it to Skarsbakk to design a solid tune…

For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.

indie | pop | rock

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Wildcard (week 19):
Shade – Morningmaker

May 6th, 2020

Shade may be from Canada, but they were raised on a diet of Brit rock and grunge. While they don’t intend to hide that, they inject their influences with a fresh dose of 21st-century swagger.

The five-piece band just released their debut album Combat Rave. A record full of hooks, energy and ambition. It includes all of the band’s singles so far: Controller, She Told Me (both 2018), this year’s Brain Suck, Drive Me Wild and Combat Rave, plus five new tracks. One of those is Shade’s new single Morningmaker. Their best track so far, it sounds like a slightly polished version of Oasis. Meanwhile, the reverb on the guitar reminds of The Smiths’ How Soon Is Now? References they shouldn’t be ashamed of, I’d say.

They say about the song: “We’re all still trying to figure out exactly who/what the ‘Morningmaker’ is but we’ll leave it up to the audience to make up their own minds. Making coffee in the morning, Morningmaker. Catch the bus on time, Morningmaker. Getting that pay cheque early, Morningmaker. The Morningmaker is anything and all that’s just right, perhaps. The universe lining up. You can really only tell after four minutes and 13 seconds.

Let me explain what Morningmaker is: it’s the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. In that capacity, it’ll feature here prominently for a who week. Not in the shade, but in the spotlights!

In the Wildcards 2020 playlist you can find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.

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Nana Adjoa – She’s Stronger

Kailee Morgue – This Is Why I’m Hot

Boniface – It’s A Joke

Demi Lovato (feat. Travis Barker) – I Love Me [Emo Version]

The Academic – Anything Could Happen

Moscow Apartment – Halfway

Videoclub – Enfance 80

Robert Skarsbakk – Wars

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Shade – Morningmaker

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