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ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 243

Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 243 and tell us which tracks they liked best. Here, in alphabetical order, are our readers' top favourites. Our reviews are written by Fresh On The Net's Phil Meadley - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves243

Fresh Faves: Batch 243

Ralph's Indie Show on Radio KC - Vol 228 - 18.6.17

Andreas S Jensen SINGLES

Missing:
TIME FOR Tee - Wax
KIM – Private
JOHNNO CASSON - Being Yourself
THE HEPBURNS - Confusin Myself with Rock 'N' Roll
DIDI - Bombs
THE PURE CONJECTURE - No Ghosts
AVANT & GARDE - Whatch'a Gunna' Do Abou' It (ft. Ollie Would)

June 2017 Jewels

Love & War erupts from the sound of crickets, intimate vocals and an acoustic fingerpicking guitar to a big anthemic country rock chorus, describing the battle to reclaim lost love. The picturesque lyrics uses nature imaginary (the wind, the moon, the fields etc) as metaphors to express the narrators internal fights, hopes, and worries in a love triangular drama.

Love & War -Andreas S Jensen

Classic country “train beat”  drums, acoustic guitar, organ, vocals, double bass and banjo, with a sound reminiscent of bands like Bob Dylan & The Band, Tom Petty, The Byrds, Flying Buritto Brothers and early Eagles mixed with a fresh new melodic approach. 
The lyrics are a reflective look, in retrospect, at an affair, including feelings of temptation, resistance, guilt, lust, self-loathing, and empathy for the scorned partner back home.

Ordinary People (feat. Sine Bach Rüttel)

Ordinary People (feat. Sine Bach Rüttel)  -Andreas S Jensen

A song about how it feels to go to your ex girlfriends party. Written by Andreas S Jensen and Nano Whitman. 

ANDREAS S JENSEN-Take My Heart And Go



<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/53b15b'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

In The Zone

In The Zone (Original Mix)

Mixed By - Tom Foulkes @ Fastrax Studios
Produced By - Left Of Summer
Written By - Leam Paul Jones & Tomos Ryan Foulkes
Mastered By - LANDR

ALBUM COMING 2017

Left Of Summer - Youth

Pre-release stream for Katalina Kicks new album 'Vices'.

www.katalinakicks.com

Guns

Chris Keys - Songwriting, vocals, b vocals & acoustic guitar
John McCullough - Piano/ hammond
Gareth Hughes - Bass guitar
Martay Galbraith - Drums & percussion

Recorded, mixed & mastered by Neal Calderwood /
Manor Park Studios
Produced by Chris Keys & Neal Calderwood

CHRIS KEYS - Fix It

Buy/Stream here - http://listen.platoon.ai/paranoid

Facebook - www.facebook.com/RubyFrancisMusic/
Twitter - twitter.com/RubyFranTweets
Instagram - www.instagram.com/ruby_francis/

Paranoid

Taken from the debut album "In Darkened Rooms", released May 26th on Hide & Seek Records.

Pre-order here: samaireymusic.bandcamp.com

Epitaph

Track 06 from 'I Live On The Outside' - the new album released for FREE on 1 December 2017.  Pre-order here:
https://www.joeperkins.co.uk/product/i-live-on-the-outside-free-download/
(Album release contains remixed and remastered HQ audio)

Written, engineered, produced, mixed & mastered by Joe Perkins.
All instruments played by Joe Perkins.
See this track being recorded in real-time here: https://youtu.be/6SvRpeTUmas

press@joeperkins.co.uk

I Live On The Outside

Monochrome Andalucía

Track 06 - Monochrome Andalucía

Same Mistakes - HVMAN 2017 ©

Music & Lyrics - JimmyGreen / Louise Piper

Vox- D Ari & Louise Piper
Guitar - Jimmy Green
Drums-  Ed Martin
Keys - Louise Piper
Bass Guitar: Kev Jefferies

Produced by Olivier Behzadi & HVMAN

HVMAN 2017

Same Mistakes

Newly recorded poem at Roc2 Studios North Wales. Expanding on themes of youth, abuse, memory, nostalgia and growing up in the 90's. Influenced by Kate Tempest, Dr John Cooper Clarke and Irvine Welsh.

90's Times

The song is about being on the verge of a big move, a giant step, or leap into the unknown -And it's about all the doubting and delaying involved, and the efforts to stay strong.  -A song of hope, fear and trust.

UK Single Release date June 23rd (In Denmark June 6th).

From the upcoming album Disturbed (to be released September 2017)

Trust Is My Anchor (Radio Edit)

Trust Is My Anchor (Radio Edit) -Andreas S Jensen

Fetherstone, in collaboration with London-based Kobalt Music-signed producer Harry Tarlton, presents 'All You Need to Be'’, the third instalment of her self-titled 4-track EP. Under the guise of Fetherstone, her new electronic-pop-folk infused persona, Australian songstress Briana Cowlishaw brings the tradition of the troubadour storyteller into the modern electronic pop genre through her innate passion for storytelling.

A note from Briana...

All You Need to Be is one of the most honest and raw songs I've ever written and reminds me WHY I make music.  It came from one of those dark moments that swallow you whole and then spit you out the other side. We all spend so much time justifying who we are, why and if we are important in the world, but most importantly if who we are is ENOUGH, for other people and for ourselves. I would never question my best friends and beautiful family for all their crazy, imperfect quirks that make them unique and hilarious, but I don’t make that exception for myself and continue to dangerously critic myself. . . . 

I wrote this song in about an hour, completely balling my eyes out, so hurt from my own self destruction and ready to heal. I feel like these lyrics that came out were aimed both at myself but also to all the beautiful people in my life who I want to remind how epically awesome they are.

All You Need to Be will be out on all platforms Friday 2nd June, 2017. 

DOWNLOAD: https://fetherstone.bandcamp.com/

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ALL YOU NEED TO BE 
LYRICS
What's the point of seeing,
When the worlds a reflection of your clouded mind?
What's the point of sleeping,
When you feel tired all of the time?
 
What's the point of breathing, 
If you can't feel your lungs moving in and out?
What's the point of loving,
If you can't love yourself?
 
You, are beautiful and 
You, are wonderful and 
You, don't see what others see,
You are all you need to be.
 
Why do we all keep trying, 
When you don't give yourself the credit you deserve?
Why do we bother listening,
When you don't hear anything but the voices in your head?
 
What's the point in sharing,
If you don't stop to take in there blessing?
What's the point of living,
if you live to put yourself down?

You, are beautiful and 
You, are wonderful and 
You, don't see what others see,
You are all you need to be.
 
You, are beautiful and 
You, are wonderful and 
You, don't see what others see,
You are all you need to be.

Self Titled EP 

All You Need to Be

June 2017 New release from Canberra punks Sketch Method.

Sketch Method - Elephant<Universe<Me

Even Scores

Jouska - Nature (shorter)

Wide Awake - FloodHounds

Wide Awake Video  - https://youtu.be/hWEOCUWqxQE

Wide Awake was recorded by FloodHounds at 2Fly Studios Sheffield with Alan Smyth. 
Words & Music: Jack Flynn 
Artwork: Jack Flynn
FloodHounds are: 
Vocals/Guitar - Jack Flynn
Bass/vocals - Rhys Owen
Drums/vocals - Lauren Greaves
For latest FloodHounds' gig and music news 
www.FloodHounds.com
bit.ly/SpotifyFloodhounds 
www.facebook.com/FloodHounds
www.twitter.com/FloodHounds
Spotify/iTunes available from 17th June
Bookings/Press contact floodhoundsband@gmail.com

Lyrics:  Wide Awake 
If the voice in your head has got a grip on you a little too tight
What you don’t know will hurt you tonight
Now it’s almost over and I’m falling behind
They’ve got me fearing the Reaper now, and I’m starting to lose my mind...
 
I’m Wide Awake, 
In the dead of night. 
I’m leaving here, 
But not without a fight. 
 
It’s an uphill struggle to balance out the right and wrong, 
But you feel as if you knew that all along. 
Now it’s almost over,
Don’t want to be unkind. 
They’ve got us fearing the Reaper now, and I’m starting to lose my mind 
 
I’m Wide Awake, 
In the dead of night. 
I’m leaving here. 
Cos something isn’t right. 
 
I’m Wide Awake 
Why do you keep me wide awake
Why do you keep me WIDE A-WAKE

Wide Awake

Ashes

Written by: Andreas S Jensen / Jeremy Nail
Andreas: Vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards & Production
Mark Ford: Cello
Jeremy Nail: Guitar
Kullen Fuchs: Trumpet
Jesper Lind: Drums
Thomas TJ Ross Johansen: Hammond Organ + Mix tweaking
Mix: Johnny Stage


Unchanged (Andreas S Jensen)

From Michael and the Prophetess [LP], available at:

https://thechairmandances.com/music/michael-and-the-prophetess

Michael and the Prophetess

Prophetess [Narration]

Andreas is a Ramsgate based singer-songwriter/producer, currently working on finishing his second solo album. Written in Berlin, London and Austin, Texas the new songs are inspired by Folk, Alt Country and Americana influences -a departure from Andreas' first three singles and the debut album Disturbed, which was was supported by BBC6 Music and received lots of good reviews.
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