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Kesha – Best Day [Angry Birds 2 Remix]

August 1st, 2019

Kesha has some terrible years behind her. No need to explain that, I guess. But judging from the title of her new single, her Best Day has now come. “I’m feelin’ so nice / I ain’t got no negative energy / High fives and good vibes / Wrote this one for all my friends / And enemies”, she sings.

In a statement, Kesha said: “I wanted to write a song that would make people feel GOOD. Life can be hard sometimes, and I wanted to write something to listen to in the morning to remind myself to be happy, grateful, positive and remember that I can choose to have the best day of my life (of my life, of my life). Every day. I also think high fives are great and would like to promote high fives whenever possible.”

Best Day is a bouncy tune, with plenty of finger snaps and funky plucked bass. Meanwhile, her vocals are being dubbed so often, it sounds like a whole choir.

Featured on the ‘Angry Birds 2’ soundtrack, Best Day isn’t the first song Kesha wrote for a movie. 2017’s This Is Me (from ‘The Greatest Showman’) and 2018’s Here Comes The Change (from ‘On The Basis Of Sex‘) are other recent examples.

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Your favourites (July 2019)

August 1st, 2019

French music is doing ‘très bien’ on the Carte Blanche Music blog. For the sixth consecutive month, Roi by Videoclub is (by far) your favourite recommendation, but Corine’s version of Je Danse Le Mia is a strong runner-up. Just outside this month’s Top 10, we find former Wildcards Toukassé by Shanguy and Videoclub’s new single En Nuit.

But you’re not only fans of music from France. Between the ten most read blogs in July are acts from Austria (Friedberg), the Netherlands (Pyro), Belgium (IBE), Italy (Mamacita feat. Didy & Roy Paci), Northern Ireland (Pat Dam Smyth), and the United States (SWMRS). The ‘remaining’ artists (The Brand New Heavies feat. N’Dea Davenport and Sophie & The Giants) are from Great-Britain. Well, in fact they’re leaving, but that’s not their fault.

Your full Top 10 of favourite recommendations in July is below. All of these tracks, and over 600 more, are in my continuously updated 2019 container playlist Carte Blanche Music.

^(WC) = former Carte Blanche Music Wildcard

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L.A. Rochelle – No More (Encore)

July 31st, 2019

L.A. Rochelle is a London-based, French-born artist, and No More (Encore) is only his debut single. A moving pop song full of heartbreak, the track is dedicated to the loss of someone whose memory is forever haunting. There’s a tragic story behind this song…

The stage name L.A. Rochelle came about, after he desperately tried to escape his flat in Paris, where his best friend took the life of his other best friend. The two of them had been in a secret gay relationship. Dealing with the trauma and grief, L.A. Rochelle immersed himself in his music. He bought time and saved to travel to L.A. from La Rochelle. Through his music he has redefined his perspective of love, friendship and loss.

In 2012, L.A. Rochelle moved to London. There, he perfected his own musical style, often incorporating layered vocals, a bed of sub-heavy urban beats, home-made instruments, prepared pianos, orchestral string ensembles, baritone horns sextets, typewriter sections, washing mashing laments and other sound ambiances.

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indie | pop | r&b

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Tape Toy – Sad Girl

July 31st, 2019

Two years ago, Roos van Tuil (vocals, guitar), Wesley Fransen (guitar, vocals), Maurice van de Graaf (bass) and Marc van Dongen (drums) were put together by their teacher at the Amsterdam school of music. The assignment: “Just show us what you’ve got.” Well, they did.

The quartet clicked and the school project turned into a real band, with quite a bunch of catchy, up-beat songs in their bag. All of them guitar-driven, with great synth melodies and smart lyrics. Tape Toy call their music ‘bubble-grunge’. Within a year after forming, the band amassed an agenda full of festival gigs, and recently supported Skunk Anansie.

Sad Girl is the band’s most recent single. It was released alongside new track 020, which is the area code of their hometown Amsterdam. Following the funky opening riff, dreamy verses alternate with energetic choruses. Near the end, trippy synths build up to the ‘grande finale’, where the huge singalong chorus shines one more time.

This whole week, Sad Girl by Tape Toy will shine at the top of the Carte Blanche Music blog as the new Wildcard!

In the Wildcards 2019 playlist you can find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.

indie | pop | rock

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Lola Marsh – Echoes

July 30th, 2019

Lola Marsh is formed by Tel Aviv, Israel-based lead vocalist Gil Landau and multi-instrumentalist Yael Shoshana Cohen. They came to prominence in 2014, when they played the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona as a five-piece band.

Inspired by artists ranging from Edith Piaf to Sufjan Stevens, their catchy, cinematic indie-pop combines folk and surf music. Listening to their new single Echoes makes me think of a Quentin Tarantino directed Wild West movie. It sounds like an up-tempo Lana Del Rey track, if you will.

Lola Marsh say about the song: “Echoes is about that feeling you sometimes have when you want to disappear, but at the same time, want to be found. That scary beautiful moment just before falling asleep, when you are the most lonesome version of yourself.”

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folk | indie | pop | surf

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Wallis Bird – Salve!

July 30th, 2019

Wallis Bird is an Irish artist, who is based in Berlin via London. To be honest, the first thing I heard about her, years ago, was not her music, but the story behind it. Bird is left-handed, but she lost all five fingers of her left hand in a lawnmower accident. Four of them could be put back on, but she learned herself to play a right-handed guitar upside down. Maximum respect before I heard a single note of her music. And guess what? Her music doesn’t need this story, it’s great in its own right.

Having spent the past two years writing and recording, Bird is set to release her sixth album Woman on 27 September. Salve! is the new single. The funky instrumentation and verses sound rather Prince-like, but the voice, which alternates between smooth and raspy, is trademark Wallis Bird.

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funk | indie | pop

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Penelope Isles – Leipzig

July 29th, 2019

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!”

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indie | pop | rock

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Werner’s Weekly (week 31)

July 29th, 2019

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:

Baker Grace – Sad Summer (Wildcard this week)
Call Me Loop – Self Love (Wildcard last week)
Bishop Briggs – Champion
Charli XCX feat. Christine & The Queens – Gone
Corine – Je Danse Le Mia
Hemliga Klubben – Asshole
Striking Matches – Boring

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: Feeder, Liam Gallagher, Tegan & Sara, and many more.

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Hemliga Klubben – Asshole

July 26th, 2019

Most people reading this won’t understand a word of this track, apart from its title. However, music is an international language, that can also be enjoyed when you don’t get the lyrics. Let me introduce to you: Hemliga Klubben (which means ‘the secret club’) from Sweden.

Hemliga Klubben features four talented songwriters, who met in 2017 during a songwriter session in a music studio. A year later, they formed a band. All of the members are involved in every aspect of the song crafting process, and they sing alternately on their tunes. Musically, most of the tracks they write and produce are energetic and up-tempo. Just listen to their new single Asshole for an example.

I’m sure Hemliga Klubben are huge Pet Shop Boys fans, like me. This could explain why Asshole’s chorus sounds very much like the Boys’ banger Pandemonium, off their 2009 album Yes.

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electronic | indie | pop

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Striking Matches – Boring

July 26th, 2019

American singer-songwriters/guitarists Sarah Zimmermann and Justin Davis form Striking Matches. They leaped to fame after the music supervisor for the television series ‘Nashville’ used nine of their songs in the show’s first four seasons. Two of those were featured on their T-Bone Burnett-produced debut album Nothing but the Silence.

Combining their blues and roots based guitar riffs with pop melodies, their music has been dubbed ‘blues-pop’. New single Boring, with its percussive rhythms and infectious call-and-response chorus, is a great example.

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indie | pop | rock

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Kesha – Best Day [Angry Birds 2 Remix]

Your favourites (July 2019)

L.A. Rochelle – No More (Encore)

Wildcard (week 31):
Tape Toy – Sad Girl

Lola Marsh – Echoes

Wallis Bird – Salve!

Penelope Isles – Leipzig

Werner’s Weekly (week 31)

Hemliga Klubben – Asshole

Striking Matches – Boring

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