Lily Moore has the potential to have a career like Amy Winehouse. But hopefully a longer one with a happier ending. She, too, grew up listening to soul legends like Etta James, Lauryn Hill and Sam Cooke. Surprisingly, perhaps, if you know she’s the daughter of the late Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore. Great to hear she found her own voice in more ways than one. She has a distinctive vocal sound and picked her own genre to excel in.

Moore, now 24 years old, is based in London. She started busking the streets, but her proper musical career started with her promising EP’s Not That Special and I Will Never Be (2018). The latter title almost became a self-fulfilling prophecy, when her momentum (like that of so many other artists) was abruptly halted in 2020. Luckily she decided to give music another chance and used this difficult period to write her strongest tunes yet. These are compiled on her new 6-track EP Before I Change My Mind, Again….

About the writing process of these songs she says: ”The sessions I wrote these in were during those dark days when the world was in a funny place. The outside world was fucked, but inside the studio I was safe. Quite honestly, this EP gave me back my life.”

Her latest six tracks include previous singles Hard Days, Beautiful Lie and Never Wanted You More, plus three brand-new songs. Summer is Lily’s new single. A sunny tune about her beloved subject: a break-up. This time, for a change, it’s her walking away.

We want Moore!

No better day than 21 June to announce that Summer by Lily Moore is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. This means it’ll be featured prominently at the top of the blog for a whole week.

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

Canadian band Augusta was formed in early 2022 when Joe Dent joined forces with August Jones, Zach Stuckey and Parker Weiss. They perform live as a seven-piece, joined by Tristan Schultz, Daniel-leigh Mclean and Matt Woroshyl. Their first show only took place 14 months ago. By then, they mostly performed songs that either Dent or Jones had written independently. However, most of these songs felt out-dated and didn’t fit the direction they wanted to take the band. Therefore, they decided to go on their first writing retreat in Jones’ family cottage. There, they wrote the songs for Augusta’s debut EP.

Last October, I really liked the band’s very first single Little Birds. Early this year, it was followed by sophomore effort Better Off. With new tune Maybe, they complete a hattrick of great tracks. I think this upbeat, brass-infused song is their best yet.

On Augusta’s Facebook page, Jones writes: “I wrote Maybe in the summer of 2021 just after the pandemic hit. It was one of the first songs I ever fully wrote and produced myself and one of the first ones where I went: ‘I could release this and… be okay with it?’.”
He goes on to explain the track is for the people who are trying to remove themselves from who they were when they were younger. It’s about ‘the constant chatter in the skull that keeps you from doing what you love to do most; And the unwarranted pressure and self-doubt some of us place on ourselves every day’.

On 23 June, Augusta will be playing their biggest headline show ever in hometown Toronto to celebrate the release of their debut EP. The trio of songs they put out so far sounds really promising!

It’s 100% sure that Maybe by Augusta is the new Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. That means it’ll be featured prominently at the top of the blog for a whole week.

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Little Birds

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