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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:

Haerts – Days Go By (Wildcard this week)
Niko Rubio – You Could Be The One (Wildcard last week)
Edouard Landry – Words
Rebecca Lou – Lovesick
Vincent – Down

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: Counting Crows, Duran Duran, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Garbage, Twenty One Pilots, Weezer, and more.

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Wildcard (week 20):
Haerts – Days Go By

May 19th, 2021

Singer Nini Fabi and multi-instrumentalist Benny Gebert are originally from Munich. They met in high school and became a couple, both romantically and musically. The two have been living in the United States for years now. First in New York, but they recently relocated to California. Originally, their band Haerts was a quartet, but in 2021, Fabi and Gebert are the two remaining core members. However, the band can grow out to a six-piece when playing live.

Dream Nation, out this week, is the outfit’s third album. Once again a collection of gorgeous, ethereal alt-pop music, with clear nods to the ‘60s and ‘70s. Take new single Days Go By, for instance. A lovely retro pop song with jazz and soul influences. It’s got an exotic touch, thanks to tropical drums, a prominent flute and even a lovely house piano. It reminds me of The Brand New Heavies, which is never a bad thing!

Haerts’ new single Days Go By is this week’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcard, so it’ll feature prominently at the top of the blog for a whole week!

Recommended as well:
Haerts – No Love For The Wild

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In the Wildcards 2021 playlist you’ll find all of this year’s Carte Blanche Music Wildcards so far.

indie | jazz | pop | soul

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Werner’s Weekly (week 20)

May 17th, 2021

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:

Niko Rubio – You Could Be The One (Wildcard this week)
Clypso – On Our Way (Wildcard last week)
Everyone You Know – Higher
Luz – Counting Houses
Number One Popstar – Forever 21
Super db – Wait For Me
Telenova – Tranquilize

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: Herbert Grönemeyer & Alex Silva, Manic Street Preachers, Olivia Rodrigo, and more.

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Talkbøx & Nick Double – Step Into The Light

May 15th, 2021

Not bad for a band as young a Talkbøx (est. 2019). Their two most recent singles were not only played by radio stations in their home country the Netherlands. Not even only in the Benelux. Most European countries came on board. And even better: the songs lightened up airwaves as far and away as Jamaica, the United States, Canada and Thailand. I bet producer/beatmaker Dion Peters (Dion Dash), singer Dana Havrylyuk and guitarist/writer Mitchell Giebels couldn’t have dreamed this a year ago.

I think they’d better prepare for even more airplay, playlists and fans, for their new single is their best yet. For Step Into The Light, Talkbøx collaborate with Nick Double, a Dutch DJ/producer with a fresh and unique sound. His tracks have already been supported by some of the world’s biggest DJ’s. Think Hardwell, Tiësto, Nicky Romero, David Guetta, Afrojack, Martin Garrix, Steve Aoki, W&W, Sander Van Doorn, R3HAB, Dyro, and many more!

Step Into The Light is a cool track in every sense of the word. And other than you might expect from a danceable tune, it touches upon a social issue. The lyrics emphasize the increasing polarisation in our society. The individual versus the masses in the constantly changing world around us. As an individual music lover, I can only wish the masses fully embrace this song and its message! Epic stuff!

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

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King No-One – Obsolete

May 15th, 2021

Around eight years ago, three musicians from all over the UK met in York. Zach Lount, Joe Martin and James Basile went on to form King No-One. They started out busking for money, building a loyal fanbase. Now, in ‘normal’ times, they sell 8.000 concert tickets a year.

Obsolete is the band’s new single. A great song that combines ‘00s R&B and ‘90s grunge with drum computer sounds straight from the ‘80s. It takes inspiration from artists spanning genres as well as decades, which results in a song full of energy.

Lount says Obsolete is about ‘the pursuit of hedonism to mask the shame that depression can leave you with. And the first acknowledgment that you kinda suck and don’t want to suck anymore’.

Recommended as well:
King No-One – Bad Porno

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

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Julia Bardo – Do This To Me

May 15th, 2021

The first time I heard Julia Bardo’s new single, I though it was former 10,000 Maniacs singer Natalie Merchant. But she isn’t, obviously.

Bardo was born in Northern Italy. There, she sang and wrote lyrics for a local band between shifts at her father’s bar. After relocating to Manchester, she joined post-punk band Working Men’s Club. Nowadays however, she’s working hard to develop her solo career. She already supported Blossoms live, and played her own headline shows.

10 September, she’ll release her debut album Bauhaus, L’Appartamento. It was named after the apartment complex she lived in when demoing the album’s recordings, but with an Italian twist. Ahead of the long-player, she just released her new single. “Do This To Me is a very personal song about feeling abandoned, growing up and family”, according to the singer, songwriter and guitarist.

The introspective lyrics are accompanied by a charming, lush and laid-back melody. After listening, you’ll probably forgive me for mistaking Julia Bardo for Natalie Merchant, both vocally and musically.

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

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Winnetka Bowling League & Sasha Sloan – barcelona

May 15th, 2021

Alexandra Yatchenko is an American singer and songwriter with Russian roots, known professionally as Sasha Sloan. She’s the 402nd most popular artist on Spotify which, on a global scale, is huge! In 2019, Winnetka Bowling League opened for her on tour and they’ve kept in touch ever since. When WBL front man Matthew Koma sent her a demo of his new track, barcelona, she immediately fell in love with it.

The final version has just been released. It’s the first single from the band’s upcoming EP, which follows their single Congratulations. Most importantly: it continues that song’s poppy sound. Barcelona has the bouncing indie-pop melodies we’ve come to expect from WBL. With every new single, they come closer to perfecting that sound.

Koma says of the track: “barcelona is a song about still being able to have love for the person that it didn’t work out with. I always feel the urge to discredit every ounce of a relationship after it’s over because it feels way better than scrolling the highlight feed… but sometimes there was a lot of good worth recognizing and the ending doesn’t have to be this big dramatic ‘delete all’.”

For Sasha Sloan, this collaboration follows earlier alliances with Meghan Trainor & Lennon Stella, Kygo, Charlie Puth and Sam Hunt.

Recommended as well:
Come To The Beach
Diane
Feeling California

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

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Valeras – Rita

May 15th, 2021

Valeras are a Reading-based duo, consisting of Rose Yagmur and Max Sealy. The former’s family fled their home in Venezuela to settle in the UK when she was just 10 years old. They didn’t receive the warm welcome they had hoped for, and struggled to become accepted in their new country. For Rose, this resulted in feelings of loneliness, abandonment, and consequently a desire to empower the downtrodden. All of this is reflected in her lyrics.

Since 2018, Valeras went on the road with the likes of Yonaka, Drenge, King Nun and The Wombats. They also played festivals across the world, including Sziget (Hungary) and Mad Cool (Madrid). In the process, they released seven singles, which racked up millions of streams in total.

The duo just dropped single #8. Rita is an explosive indie-rock track; undoubtedly their most ambitious and personal work to date. It was co-written and co-produced by Tarek Musa (of Spring King) and mixed by Claudius Mittendorf (Weezer, Parquet Courts).

Late in the summer, Valeras will finally release their eagerly awaited debut EP.

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

indie | rock

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Laura Mvula – Got Me

May 15th, 2021

2 July, Laura Mvula will release her third album Pink Noise. But to her, it’s more than just that. The Birmingham artist describes it as ‘the album I always wanted to make’. As the first two singles Safe Passage and Church Girl already made clear, it’ll be heavily influenced by 1980s synth-pop.

That’s only confirmed by the third song to be released ahead of the long-player. Got Me is a great track that wouldn’t have been out of place on a Michael Jackson album. The bass line brings tracks like The Way You Make Me Feel or Leave Me Alone to mind, while the horns and the funky guitar could’ve been sampled from an early ‘80s record by The Jacksons. A colourful song that makes you want to dance.

Slightly over the top, a press release describes Got Me as ‘a funk-fuelled release of inhibitions’, and ‘another taste of the euphoric feel-good sonics Laura explores without fear on her new album’. Can’t wait for 2 July!

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

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Linn Koch-Emmery – Dirty Words

May 15th, 2021

Scandinavia is well-known as ‘pop heaven’, but they also have artists who like to throw in a guitar or two. Stockholm-based Linn Koch-Emmery is one of them. A consequence of her German and British roots perhaps? Oh well, let’s not search for answers, but just enjoy her fresh indie-rock songs with killer choruses.

Koch-Emmery may be releasing music since 2016, she’s only just put out her debut album Being The Girl. An 11-track long-player that already includes four great singles. More will probably follow, for it holds other great songs. One of the best in my opinion is called Dirty Words, although it isn’t explicit at all. It’s got hints of early ‘90s New Order, and lyrically it features dark humour and a sense of self-distance.

Dirty Words would make a strong fifth single, as far as I’m concerned.

Recommended as well:
Linn Koch-Emmery – Hologram Love

Follow Linn Koch-Emmery on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Spotify

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

indie | pop | rock

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