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Werner’s Weekly (week 16)
No better way to start the new week than with a selection of last week’s best songs. Werner’s Weekly is your compass to the music that matters:
- Stars – Ship To Shore (Wildcard this week)
- boy pablo – Losing You (Wildcard last week)
- Alice Merton – Lash Out
- Freak Power – Hear My Call
- Kelemen Kabátban – Úton
- The Academic – Fake ID
- The Spectors – Dorothy
23 minutes is all you need to listen to them all via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar. For more background on each track, simply click the links above.
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist. Other great additions to the collection include Ash, Chvrches, Elisa, Frank Turner, Isaac Gracie, Janelle Monáe (feat. Grimes), Sigrid, Tracyanne & Danny, and Waylon.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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The Spectors – Dorothy
When Marieke Hutsebaut founded The Spectors in 2012, their demos soon caught the ear of former Editors guitarist Chris Urbanowicz. He produced the Belgian band’s self-titled debut EP (2014) and full album Light Stays Close (2015), two releases full of shoegaze and dreampop.
Their second album Ooh Aah Aah took three years to make. Three years that Hutsebaut used to experiment with different line-ups and to find the right musical touch. She says about that search: “Our main goal on this record was to step away from the heavy shoegaze and highlight our poppy side with a collection of catchy songs.”
Mission accomplished, as far as I’m concerned. Ooh Aah Aah contains short, snappy and sparkling songs with honest lyrics, in which Hutsebaut chronicles her life with Asperger’s. For me, Dorothy is one of the album’s highlights!
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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The Academic – Fake ID
Irish band The Academic was formed in 2013 by Craig Fitzgerald (lead vocalist and guitarist), Dean Gavin (drums), and brothers Matt and Stephen Murtagh (guitar and bass, respectively). I played their early singles Northern Boy and Mixtape 2003 in the late Carte Blanche radio show in May 2016 and August 2016, but the band garnered more media interest a year later, after Bear Claws came out.
Most of these singles appear on the band’s debut album Tales From The Back Seat. My favourite track off the album though, is the über catchy Fake ID, that features in the Carte Blanche Music playlist since the record come out, last January. Now, it’s The Academic’s new single!
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 15)
In a great week for new music, I added the likes of Band Of Horses, Chromeo, Gin Wigmore, Johnny Marr, Manic Street Preachers, Novastar and We Are Scientists to my 2018 container playlist Carte Blanche Music. All of them very much worth checking out and you might even consider following that playlist, so you won’t miss a single great track, ever.
But there is only one ultimate rundown, containing only the best of the best new songs: Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters. Click the links below for more information about each track, and listen to them all via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar.
- boy pablo – Losing You (Wildcard this week)
- Tiny Fighter – New Century (Wildcard last week)
- Gruppo Sportivo – (This Is A) Normal Song
- Inge van Calkar – Imaginary
- NoNoNo – Friends
- Ofenbach vs. Lack Of Afro (feat. Wax & Herbal T) – PARTY
- Victor Manuelle & Juan Luis Guerra – Quiero Tiempo
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Werner’s Weekly (week 14)
Werner’s Weekly is like a Swiss clock: it’s here every Monday morning (even at Easter), and it always contains the best new music of the past week. It’s your compass to the music that matters, even if you don’t manage to visit this blog each day.
So, in case you missed it, these are the best tracks of the past week, starting off with the two latest Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, complemented by other choice cuts, that are presented here in alphabetical order.
As always, you can listen to all of these tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar.
- Tiny Fighter – New Century (Wildcard this week)
- Echosmith – Over My Head (Wildcard last week)
- Corine – Il Fait Chaud
- DMA’s – For Now
- Gang Of Youths – The Heart Is A Muscle
- Magnus Carlson & Weeping Willows – Wait For Love To Grow
- The Vaccines – Your Love Is My Favourite Band
Other notable additions to Carte Blanche Music 2018 longlist this week: Chvrches, eels, Daryl Hall & John Oates with Train, Franz Ferdinand, Sigrid, The Lemon Twigs, and Zak Abel.
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Tiny Fighter – New Century
In 2016, Tim Spelman moved from Melbourne to Stockholm, where he joined forces with local singer Therese Karlsson to form Tiny Fighter. They are the perfect match, as they complement each other: Tim is good at starting songs, Therese has a talent for finishing them.
Now working together for only a year, New Century is the duo’s debut single. An indie-pop song with a bittersweet edge and a New Order-like bass line. It comes with a video that was shot entirely on a 360 degree camera. And although no special effects were added in post-production, filming it this way produced some stunning visual effects in itself.
New Century by Tiny Fighter features prominently on this blog for a week as the Carte Blanche Music Wildcard. You can find all of them in the Wildcards 2018 playlist.
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Gang Of Youths – The Heart Is A Muscle
Gang Of Youths are a quintet from Sydney, Australia, fronted by singer and songwriter Dave Le’aupepe, and complemented by a few friends from school and church: Joji Malani (lead guitar), Jung Kim (guitar/keyboards), Max Dunn (bass) and Donnie Borzestowski (drums).
The Heart Is A Muscle is a great song off their second album Go Farther In Lightness that was put out late last year. But the track has only now been edited down for radio stations, meaning the real campaign has just begun. I hope it gets the airplay it deserves.
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Kitty, Daisy & Lewis – The Game Is On
Songs with a ‘four to the floor’ pattern… I love them, radio often loves them, but they only seldomly go on to be a bona fide hit. Why? It’s a mystery to me…
This is another one, one I hope fares better than the lot of them. The Game Is On is the latest single off sibling trio Kitty, Daisy & Lewis (Durham)’s 2017 album Superscope. It evolved from various jamming sessions and nods towards a heavier ’70s influence. The video that accompanies the track was filmed and edited by the band at their home studio in North London.
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Kate Nash – Life In Pink
Kate Nash’s career started around the same time as Lily Allen’s, and they have often been compared in the beginning. I still like her playful early singles, like Pumpkin Soup, Mouthwash, and Foundations (all from 2007).
After a few non-album singles in recent years, Nash is now working towards her next, Kickstarter-financed album, Yesterday Was Forever. Her first album in five years’ time, which Nash calls ‘an excerpt from a teenage diary’, is to be released on 30 March. It features her recent single Drink About You and this equally great follow-up.
Life In Pink is a dynamic power pop track about mental health. As Nash states: “The concept of the video is balancing the sane and what I’m told are ‘insane’ parts of my brain and how I think you need a balance of the two to really make it in this life.”
It’s hardly coincidence this track appears on Carte Blanche Music the same day as Liza Anne’s Panic Attack…
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Lissie – Love Blows
Elisabeth Corrin Maurus is the real name of the acclaimed American singer-songwriter we’ve come to know as Lissie. She moved out of the music industry machine and settled down in her native Midwest, where she now lives on a farm. It’s there, in her home studio, where she wrote and recorded most of her fourth studio album Castles, which comes out 23 March.
You may already know the tracks Boyfriend, Blood And Muscle and Best Days off the new record, as these were already made available previously. Love Blows, a powerful self-love anthem, is the fourth taster of an album that – by the sound of the singles – promises to be beautiful!
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
