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Werner’s Weekly (week 51)
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:
- Kakkmaddafakka – Baby (Wildcard this week)
- Julie Zenatti – Tout Est Plus Pop (Wildcard last week)
- Hoshi – Amour Censure
- Lorelei – Skylight
- Superbird – Think You Got Me
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: Ash, Courteeners, Dua Lipa, Harry Styles, Ladyhawke, and many more.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Lorelei – Skylight
If you enjoy The Cure or, more recently, Pale Waves, you should try this as well. Lorelei is an Australian duo, consisting of Claudia Schmidt and Arlen McCarthy. They produce a dark, passionate and catchy mix of shoegaze and dream-pop.
Skylight is only Lorelei’s second single. It follows their debut I Am A Road, which came out earlier this year. The band recorded both songs (and hopefully more) with Lachlan Mitchell of The Jezabels.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Werner’s Weekly (week 50)
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:
- Julie Zenatti – Tout Est Plus Pop (Wildcard this week)
- Sebu – The Secret Is Out [Lucas Vidal Arrangement] (Wildcard last week)
- Corine – Un Air De Fête À Tokyo [Japanese Version]
- Fitz & The Tantrums – I Just Wanna Shine
- North Parade – Keepthingscasual
- Peggy Sue – Validate Me
- Spacey Jane – Head Cold
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: Alanis Morissette, Polish Club, Regina Spektor, and many more.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
North Parade – Keepthingscasual
North Parade are an upcoming indie-pop band formed in Birmingham, but currently based in London. It consists of Henry Plumridge (vocals/guitar/piano), Chris Ettinger (guitar/vocals/synth), James Dewing (bass) and Ollie Clark (drums/percussion/vocals). In anticipation of their new EP How To Be Good, they shared its lead single Keepthingscasual. A track they say was written ‘entirely on a phone between a notes app and music software loops’.
Keepthingscasual is an up-tempo pop/rock song full of hooks and with an infectious chorus. It brings The Wombats to mind, which is never a bad thing. One can hear the band had fun recording it, and you’ll surely have fun listening to it.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Peggy Sue – Validate Me
When I was on holiday last October, Peggy Sue released the great single Motorcade. I didn’t get to write about it, but it’s still worth checking out, obviously. Now, the London duo come up with follow-up track Validate Me. A folky rock song, with a fresh lead melody, backed with fuzzy guitars.
Katy Young of the duo says: “We were listening to a lot of Ramones, and female bands that borrow from them – like Colleen Green and Vivian Girls. Validate Me takes inspiration from the way they can combine sweet and vulnerable and seething and heavy all in one track. This song owns up to a set of emotions that aren’t particularly empowering – to getting validation from someone else’s desire for you. But there’s something empowering about admitting to them.”
Motorcade and Validate Me, along with their 2017 single Slow Fade, will appear on Peggy Sue’s next album Vices. Released on 21 February 2020, it will be their first long-player in 6 years’ time.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Nada Surf – Something I Should Do
Way, way, way back, in 1996, Nada Surf scored a worldwide hit: the aptly titled Popular. A highly melodic, somewhat nerdy, but extremely lovable rock song. The fact they didn’t have another hit like that in later years, is everyone’s fault but theirs. For the band never stopped making brilliant music. Radio stations may have overlooked that, but the fans didn’t. Nada Surf has always been a very successful live act, although they didn’t tour much in recent years.
Mid-January 2020 however, a new world tour will start in the US. End of February, they’ll cross the Atlantic for an extensive European visit, only to return to Canadian and American stages in May and June.
The tour supports Nada Surf’s upcoming ninth album Never Not Together, which will be out on 7 February 2020. Something I Should Do is the first single off the record. A delicious rock song with spacey synths and, most importantly, a spoken word section that reminds of Popular. Nada Surf has come full circle. How about radio doing the same?
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Bad Nerves – Can’t Be Mine
Bad Nerves don’t have an album out yet, but after only four singles, ‘people in the know’ are convinced: these East-Londoners might be the next big thing. In case you missed it a year ago, the British band just re-released their single Can’t Be Mine.
Sounding like a bastard child of The Ramones and The Strokes, ‘Supergrass on speed’ is another good description. Can’t Be Mine is fast and furious, but melodic throughout. Catch them at showcase festival Eurosonic Noorderslag in the Dutch city of Groningen mid-January 2020, if you can!
Recommended as well:
Bad Nerves – Dreaming
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Spacey Jane – Head Cold
In 2017, Fremantle, Australia friends Caleb, Kieran, Ashton and Meils decided to start a garage-pop band, Spacey Jane. They released Still Running as their first single, but follow-up Feeding The Family provided them with their break-through. Two EP’s, a sold out tour, multiple festival appearances and the vast support of Triple J later, the next chapter is around the corner.
2020 will see Spacey Jane, with Peppa replacing Meils, do another massive Australian tour. In anticipation of these shows, they just put out their new single. Head Cold reflects on a restless sleep. During the second verse, lead singer Caleb Harper sings: “Stare at the ceiling with a steady gaze / Tossing and turning while the shuffle plays / Thinking of you under a head cold / I’ll be dreaming of you till I get old.”
Head Cold is a catchy, memorable indie-pop song that will undoubtedly claim the airwaves in their home country again. But outside of the island, there is a whole world waiting…
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Werner’s Weekly (week 49)
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:
- Sebu – The Secret Is Out [Lucas Vidal Arrangement] (Wildcard this week)
- Deacon Blue – City Of Love (Wildcard last week)
- Alma – Bad News Baby
- Circa Waves – Jacqueline
- Hazel English – Shaking
- Nasty Cherry – Brain Soup
- The Heavy – Last Man Standing
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: Corine, Fitz & The Tantrums, Videoclub, and many more.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
The Heavy – Last Man Standing
The Heavy only released their fifth album Sons last May, but since then they put out three brand-new songs already. Last Man Standing follows Put It On The Line and Everything I Got. It’s another horn-tinged, electro soul-based, funk-infused track.
The British rock band doesn’t show any signs of slowing down. Lucky us!
Recommended as well:
The Heavy – Fighting For The Same Thing
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
