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Anteros – Breakfast [2019 Version]
No better way to start the day than with a good breakfast. On today’s menu: full English with tapas on the side…
Laura Hayden grew up in Barcelona and was an MTV Spain presenter before moving to London, where she formed Anteros with Joshua Rumble (bass), Jackson Couzens (guitar) and Harry Balazs (drums ). After numerous singles and two EP’s, they released their debut album When We Land last month. The band recorded it with Charlie Andrew (Alt-J, Marika Hackman, Bloc Party).
The record includes recent singles Call Your Mother, Ordinary Girl, Fool Moon and Drive On, and it contains new versions of their first single Anteros (2015) and second single Breakfast (2016). The latter has been chosen as Anteros new single. Funny to hear how the song evolved from the original version into the remake, which you can hear below.
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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.
Chateau Chateau – Burn Me Alive
When I was allowed an early listen of Chateau Chateau’s upcoming 5-track EP Evidence, I thought the title track and Burn Me Alive were the two tunes that immediately stood out. The latter has now been chosen as the Tucson seven-piece’s third single ahead of the EP.
Burn Me Alive is another up-tempo, and irresistibly danceable piece of indie pop, with its bouncy and sticky guitar hook. Commenting on the track’s lyrics, the band comment: “Burn Me Alive is about taking the plunge, burning it all down, and never looking back.”
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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.
Middle Kids – Real Thing
Only a year after their debut album Lost Friends, Australian indie rock trio Middle Kids have an all-new mini album ready. New Songs For Old Problems will be out on 24 may, and is set to include six tracks.
One of those, Real Thing, is released as a teaser single. A melancholic, yet catchy and accessible slice of power pop, that puts Hannah Joy’s beautiful voice in the limelight.
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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 15)
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. No complaints about diversity, I’d say, 6 out of the 7 being female(-fronted) acts:
- Georgia – About Work The Dancefloor (Wildcard this week)
- Maggie Lindemann – Friends Go (Wildcard last week)
- Moddi – Kriegspiel
- Self Esteem – Girl Crush
- Stefanie Heinzmann – You Get Me
- The Veronicas – Think Of Me
- Yonaka – Lose Our Heads
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: Alex Lahey, Circa Waves, The Heavy, Vampire Weekend, whenyoung, 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.
Yonaka – Lose Our Heads
Following numerous singles and the EP’s Heavy, Teach Me To Fight, and Creature, Brighton four-piece Yonaka are ready for their full-length debut Don’t Wait ‘til Tomorrow. The album is set for release on 31 May. The band, who’ve commanded a stellar list of producers to date, including Tom Dalgety (Pixies, Royal Blood), Ross Orton (Arctic Monkeys) and Rodaidh McDonald (King Krule, The xx), made the bold move to engineer and produce the album themselves.
Ahead of the record, frontwoman/songwriter Theresa Jarvis and her crew unleash the single Lose Our Heads, a track that reflects on the current generation’s dependence on technology, and dares them to experience life without it, with all its pain and heartbreak.
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 14)
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:
- Maggie Lindemann – Friends Go (Wildcard this week)
- Shanguy – Toukassé (Wildcard last week)
- Kakkmaddafakka – Sin
- Model Depose – Damage Control
- Neo Minor – Run
- Vant – Propaganda Machine
- Vendredi Sur Mer – La Nuit
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: Angèle, Perry Farrell, Rammstein, 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.
Charly Bliss – Chatroom
Although indebted to the catchy alt-rock of ’90s bands like Weezer and Veruca Salt, Charly Bliss produce pop music. Pop music with an edge, that is.
Singer/guitarist Eva Hendricks and guitarist Spencer Fox met as high school students in Westport, Connecticut. After starting out as a cover band, they soon enlisted Eva’s brother Sam Hendricks to play drums and Dan Shure to play bass. Their first offerings, like EP A Lot To Say and debut album Guppy, were full of grungy rock. However, for their next album (Young Enough, 19 May), they shifted the balance toward pop.
New single Chatroom is a great example of their new approach, combining an energetic delivery with memorable melodies and meaningful lyrics. This song, for instance, deals with Hendricks’ unjust feeling of guilt after suffering sexual abuse.
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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.
Neo Minor – Run
On 1 March, Belgian foursome Neo Minor released their eponymous debut EP, where the band adopt a sound they describe as ‘melodical sound-pop music with some subtle sound-scaping elements’. After first single The More (I Try), it’s now time for the follow-up.
Run is an up-tempo track with a galloping, Running Up That Hill-like drum beat, and a wonderful piano melody. A song about hope and striving for the unreachable. Despite this theme however, I’m confident that Run will bring mainstream success nearer for the band.
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.
Model Depose – Damage Control
Nicknaming Model Depose ‘Model Depeche’ is understandable, but too easy. But you’re not to blame… until now. For the Dutch electronic pop band re-invented themselves with a new sound, which is more guitar-driven. Call it indie, rock or alternative pop, but I like it!
Damage Control is Model Depose’s new single. “When an influential person or loved one is on a collision course, the best you can do is keep dancing, sing along and make the best of it”, according to the band.
Not only is Damage Control the new single, it’s also the title track off their second album. Model Depose promise ‘a full-fledged piece of music in which everything fits together like a puzzle, where grit and a soothing atmosphere always find balance through raw beats, dynamic vocals and subdued synthesizer melodies’. The long-player will be out in September. Until then, the band release a new single and video each month.
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.
The Mazarines – Afterglow
After playing a few movie roles around the turn of the century, actress Renee Faia is currently the lead singer of The Mazarines. She’s in the band with her partner Gregg Stewart, who adds his baritone vocals and shimmering rhythmic guitar. The Mazarines’ sound walks the line between dream pop and atmospheric folk with a dash of late 60’s French pop.
Since their eponymous debut EP, the duo took six years to come up with a follow-up, aptly titled Deux (which, dûh, is French for ‘two’). Afterglow (below) is the lead track of this second EP, but please, also lend your ear to the band’s dreamy, ‘Twin Peaks’-esque take on Echo & The Bunnymen’s The Killing Moon.
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.
