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single trackThe Go! Team – Semicircle Song
The Go! Team – Semicircle Song
Brighton collective The Go! Team have announced their new album Semicircle will be released on 19 January 2018. The first single off it, Semicircle Song, is out now.
Never shy to provide us with a clash of genres, this time The Go! Team appear to have enlisted a marching band. It gives the song an organic, joyous sound, but you can leave it to The Go! Team to give it a psychedelic twist. Midway, all of the band members rattle off their astrological signs for no reason. It’s typical for the unsettling character of many of their songs.
With the uniformity of today’s pop music, The Go! Team are a welcome exception to the rule.
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 42)
Do you love new music, but don’t you have the time to find it? Have a radio show and like suggestions what to play? Have your playlist ready, but need some additional information about the bands? A fellow blogger who could use some inspiration? Carte Blanche Music is a one-stop shop for everyone who is actively involved in new music, as well as anyone who just likes to know the best music that has just come out.
The information is presented in three ways. Choose for yourself which suits you best, depending on the amount of time (or curiosity ? ) you have:
- my daily updated Spotify playlist Carte Blanche Music (a must-follow if you don’t want to miss a thing; added this week: Bad Sounds, Beck, Dagny, Marmozets, Zak Abel and many more)
- my recommendations on this blogs (usually two posts a day)
- my alphabetically ordered ‘best of the best’ playlist Werner’s Weekly (updated each Monday morning; you can listen to the tracks through the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar)
Below, you’ll find the latest edition of Werner’s Weekly. Each link reveals more information about the respective track. Feel free to leave a comment or suggestion!
- Les Gordons – Let The Music Speak (Wildcard this week)
- Isaac Gracie – Silhouettes Of You (Wildcard last week)
- Absynthe Minded – Beam
- Alex Lahey – I Love You Like A Brother
- Dangers Of The Sea – Mathilda
- Efecto Pasillo – Las Banderas
- Firewoodisland – Dearest Brother
- Spoon – I Ain’t The One
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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Absynthe Minded – Beam
Absynthe Minded has been ‘absent minded’ for five years, but last week they finally released their new album Jungle Eyes. First single The Execution already promised a strong return and the follow-up, Beam, is further proof that the Belgian band has only grown better during their absence.
In more ways than one, this is not the band it was before. For Jungle Eyes, singer Bert Ostyn and bass player Sergej Van Bouwel surrounded themselves with an all-new set of musicians. Absynthe Minded 1 was great already, Absynthe Minded 2 is even greater!
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.
album trackAlex Lahey – I Love You Like A Brother
Alex Lahey – I Love You Like A Brother
This girl simply doesn’t stop producing great tracks. Her name: Alex Lahey. I already told you more about her when I reviewed her singles You Don’t Think You Like People Like Me, Lotto In Reverse and I Haven’t Been Taking Care Of Myself. A year and a half after that first track broke her in her native Australia, the talented singer put out her full-length debut. And boy, does it deliver!
The album I Love You Like A Brother is one up-tempo trip that doesn’t slow down until its closing song. All of the singles (except You Don’t Think…) are there, and I’d like to propose the title track – in which she addresses her now-repaired relationship with her brother – as a possible follow-up. A great sing-along rock song, made for the arenas!
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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Wild Beasts – Punk Drunk And Trembling
Wild Beasts were a British pop/rock band, founded in 2002. Their first single, Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants, was only released four years later. They went on to put out 19 more singles, five EP’s and just as many albums.
Why do I use the past tense, do you ask? Well, as recently as 25 September the band announced its split. Only days later they release a new single, Punk Drunk And Trembling. An uncovered gem from the recording sessions for Wild Beasts’ last album Boy King and arguably one of their strongest singles yet. It would be a fitting farewell if it would belatedly become their biggest hit.
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 40)
Carte Blanche Music is like a three-stage rocket:
- throughout the week I select and collect great new music in my 2017 container playlist Carte Blanche Music
- for the most ear catching/interesting/noteworthy tracks I write a recommendation on this blog
- the very best of the best are admitted in my own, subjective, alphabetically ordered ‘hall of fame’ called Werner’s Weekly
You can check if you agree with my choices by listening to the tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar and click any of the links below to find out more about a song. Happy discovery!
- The Hunna – Summer (Wildcard this week)
- Rae Morris – Do It (Wildcard last week)
- Caparezza – Ti Fa Stare Bene
- Hippo Campus – Baseball
- Les Gordons – Let The Music Speak
- Tiggs Da Author – Work It Out
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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Frills – Magic Tide
Last spring, New York based New-Zealand duo Frills released their debut single My Love. A song that caused me to keep an eye on them.
Their second single doesn’t disappoint. Simon Oscroft and Dan Gibson deliver another easy going slice of danceable indie pop. Surely, there’s more where this came from!
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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Hippo Campus – Baseball
Hippo Campus make smart music. That’s not strange for a band that named itself after a part of the brain. If you like Satellite Stories, then open your mind for Hippo Campus as well…
After releasing quite some singles and EP’s since 2015, their debut album Landmark came out only early this year. Now, seven months later, they quickly follow it up with the surprise EP Warm Glow, containing three brand new tracks. Long-term live favourite Baseball is the first single.
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.
single trackAlex Lahey – Lotto In Reverse / I Haven’t Been Taking Care Of Myself
Alex Lahey – Lotto In Reverse / I Haven’t Been Taking Care Of Myself
As far as Alex Lahey is concerned, Europe is lagging behind Australia. In her homeland, the singer broke through in the spring of 2016 with her single You Don’t Think You Like People Like Me, a year before it was picked up by European radio stations. Over here, Lotto In Reverse is her new single; down under she already released the follow-up I Haven’t Been Taking Care Of Myself. Two equally great tracks, both of which I’d like to introduce to you (as I do below).
6 October her debut album I Love You Like A Brother comes out, also featuring first single Every Day’s A Weekend.
Lotto In Reverse:
I Haven’t Been Taking Care Of Myself:
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 34)
So, how were your holidays? Oh, you’re still away? Then I’m flattered you came along to take a look! In the meantime, I’ve continued to discover great new music for you. My container playlist Carte Blanche Music, featuring the best new tracks of the year so far, has been expanded with songs by Bad Sounds, Grouplove, Pale Waves, Nerina Pallot, The Sherlocks and many more, last week.
But with no further ado I present you with the highlights of the last seven days, listed below in alphabetical order. Clicking on any of the links gives you more information about that particular track and while reading, you can listen to all eight of the songs through the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar…
- Saint Etienne – Dive (Wildcard this week)
- Ridsa – Avancer (Wildcard last week)
- Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS? – Magic Swimming Pants
- Julian Taylor Band feat. Kinnie Starr – Feel Your Love
- Lights – Savage
- Louane – On Était Beau
- Wesley Fuller – #1 Song
- Wolf Alice – Beautifully Unconventional
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.
