Ana's Flavourites vol. 23

Any artist is welcome to send us ONE track via freshonthenet.co.uk anytime between Monday lunchtime and Thursday morning - and all our moderators, including Tom Robinson, will listen to every track*. This is our full inbox from the week beginning Mon 10th April: from mid-day on Friday you'll be able to hear our shortlist and pick your favourites on this week's Listening Post which will appear at freshonthenet.co.uk/batch236

*Note: we don't listen again to tunes we've already heard, and automatically block artists who send more than one track a week (our moderators can manage to work their way through 150+ tunes overnight, but 300+ would be impossible!)

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 236

The Weekend Showcase 3.14 edition features 52 songs by artists from 13 countries. To learn more about who's on this playlist, see the link below.

http://therevue.ca/2017/04/15/weekend-showcase-3-14/

Weekend Showcase 3.14

Songs posted on findasongblog.com, week 2017/15

I'll be a man Official Single

I Wrote You A Letter

TRACK 03 Peaking Lights - The Fifth State Of Consciousness

All songs Indra Dunis & Aaron Coyes
Recorded & Produced by Aaron Coyes at Dreamfuzz
Mastered by Sonic Boom at New Atlantis

2017

The Fifth State Of Consciousness

Everytime I See The Light

PEAKING LIGHTS  03  EVERYTIME I SEE THE LIGHT

Half Believing

Ordinary Day - Masasolo

"Wonders of Youth" out now:
Spotify: http://sptfy.com/wondersofyouth 
Apple Music: https://itun.es/gb/eKd4ib 

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https://twitter.com/StJtO
https://www.instagram.com/st.judetheobscure
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Wonders Of Youth

'Displaced' by Moondude

Written and Performed by Moondude
Recorded and Mixed by Tom Carmichael at Fish Factory

Displaced

"...like an echo of a classic film soundtrack, [EmpathyTest] wouldn’t sound out of place snaking into the soundtrack of Netflix series Stranger Things’ second season." - The Line of Best Fit

Empathy Test is London-based electronic music duo Isaac Howlett (vocals) and Adam Relf (production). Currently performing their unique brand of emotive, ‘80s tinged synth pop across Europe with the help of Christina Lopez (drums) and Jacob Ferguson Lobo (keyboards), they have previously shared stages with everyone from The Japanese House to Bombay Bicycle Club. Following the success of ‘Seeing Stars’ and ‘By My Side’, Empathy Test are now set to drop new single 'Bare My Soul'.

‘Bare My Soul’ perfectly showcases the childhood friends’ brooding, cinematic sound. Pulsating analogue synthesizers, combined with a staggered drumbeat and rolling toms, drive the track to a dazzling, euphoric chorus. Isaac’s sombre vocals meanwhile, provide snapshots of poignant moments in his formative years, from a friend’s early critique of his “deep and meaningful” song writing, to the death of a girlfriend’s father.

“’Bare My Soul’ is literally about doing just that; baring one's soul. Isaac was initially inspired by a radio documentary he heard about Kurt Cobain, in which someone said, “[Kurt] had this ability to...bare his soul, in a way that no one else could”. The music mirrors that feeling of release when you finally get things off your chest, moving from the dark, suffocating tightness of the verses into the bright, open space of the choruses. The people in the song; Stephen, Blythe, Cassandra and Sophie, are all real people that Isaac encountered growing up” - Empathy Test

With this release, Empathy Test once again demonstrate an effortless ability to translate the atmospherics of classic sci-fi soundtracks into an accessible contemporary pop structure and combine it with confessional lyrics that cut right to the core. Scheduled to arrive on the 21st April, ‘Bare My Soul’ kicks off a PledgeMusic campaign to fund the self-release of Empathy Test’s debut album on the 23rd June.

Empathy Test | Bare My Soul Lyrics

Stephen said why not write something
That’s not so deep and meaningful?
But the truth can be so, 
Tragic and beautiful.

Blythe said she could never
Tell anyone just how she feels.
How will anyone know when,
She caves in and it all gets real?

I want to bare my soul -
In a way that no one can.
In the hope that 
some of you might understand
How it feels 
To be so alone.
To be so alone.
To be so alone.

Cassandra said she’d lost the plot
When she stopped the car to drop me off.
I watched her disappear
Her face reflected in the rear-view mirror.

Sophie woke me in the dead of night
To tell me how her dad had died.
I lie here in the dark but,
Now there’s nowhere left to hide.

Bare My Soul

LUWTEN - Indifference from the forthcoming self-titled album to be released 13 October 2017.

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Indifference

**aloric // It Doesn't Matter (Official Lyric Video)**: https://youtu.be/hXkJuJ6GPGg

Written, arranged, performed*, recorded, produced, mixed & mastered by aloric. (*except saxophone, by Juliet D. Rondeau)

Press:
"Pure talent; from the vocal ranges to the production and composition...a sublime new track" ~TheRevue

"Provides a haunting isolation which chills to the marrow-bone of the listener" ~EmergingIndieBands

Website: https://aloric.wixsite.com/aloric
Available for download at: http://aloric.bandcamp.com
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aloric

It Doesn't Matter

Free Download

From POLIÇA's upcoming "Lipstick Stains" / "Still Counts" double single featuring Boys Noize and Spank Rock. Digitally available 4/11/17 with limited Record Store Day 7" on 4/22/17.

"Still Counts" features guest vocals by Spank Rock
Cover photo by Alexa Horochowski

POLIÇA - "Still Counts" (ft. Spank Rock)

Mutant

From POLIÇA's upcoming "Lipstick Stains" / "Still Counts" double single featuring Boys Noize and Spank Rock. Digitally available 4/11/17 with limited Record Store Day 7" on 4/22/17.

"Lipstick Stains" features guest production by Boys Noize
Cover photo by Alexa Horochowski

POLIÇA - "Lipstick Stains" (ft. Boys Noize)

Exist

SUNNY

Our man has fallen for a lady of the night named Sunny and he thinks he can take care of her, save her from men who puzzle her existence and all the rest of that Roxanne bullshit. However as the song goes on our boy's initial confidence and certitude begins to wane and he can't save himself from the very crime he wants to save her from. His care turns into lust, his lust turns into naivety and his naivety is used in question against her on whether she actually wants to be saved. Questions of love, questions of time; he then looks at his own place in the world. This is Sunny.

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Lyrics:

Put on something different for me
Lying with your mind disarms, but won’t make me leave
Your wondrous eyes tell me the things that you hold so deep 
I’ll tell you where the sun looks better
I can’t believe we’re wasting it
Put on something different for me
Tell your boy I’ll pay the fifteen

I know the games of chance that you play at night
Your fingertips amidst the moonlight
Does a man go make you feel, Sun?
What makes you think you gotta be like that?
Why you on the floor?
I was talking to myself
Ways that I imagine you
Oh I’m such a little boy
Telling you I’m the man 
Makes me stay up late at night

Would you want somebody to love you?
Would you want somebody to dare?
Would you want somebody to hurt you?
Do you even think that you’d care?
Would you want somebody to be the man
Would you want somebody who could tell you how this ends?
Would you pretend?

Take me, take me baby boy
Put on something different for me
I’ll tell you what to do babe, baby
Worry no more, no more

Do you ever feel like you’re the fool?
Pantomiming as your mind disowns you
As you undress yourself in the corner of a hotel room
I’m mumbling words that I could say to you
About where you are in all your dreams
(He likes to tell you it’s real)
Or your curves beneath those midnight seams
(He longs to know what to do)
As the sun shines upon yesterday
(He wonders how he should feel)
I’ve lost myself somewhere in between

Millions of miles above
Visions of days now gone
My baby, are we lost forever or here right now?
Minds unborn or fated somehow?
Am I supposed to bare you my heart
Sure as sun lights up the day?

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'DIY, R&B music infused with Folk, Soul, Rock, Jazz and whatever sound that seems appropriate at the time to tell tales of the human condition. Once a purist of seventies singer-songwriter soul searching, and now a stranger in a dark room writing, producing and making weird noises on a laptop. Formerly the lead man of ‘Wild Rossa And The ’88’, LAPP is now attempting to do a Zayn, form his very own one man wolf pack and see how many fellow weirdos he can find along the way who, hopefully, might dig the tunes as well.'

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SUNNY © - LAPP
Song written, recorded, produced and performed by LAPP
Song mastered by Andy Fernihough in Crash Studios, Liverpool
Bass Guitar: Sam Weston
Saxophone: Luke Ledger

lappxmusic@gmail.com
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SUNNY

Lights Out

https://aloric.wixsite.com/aloric
contact: aloricband@gmail.com