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ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 424

"KILL, THE ICON!" is an exploration of cultural icons and iconoclasts, viewed through the lens of pop culture.

"Buddhist Monk" is an exploration of the self-immolation of Thich Quang Duc. Modern protests are often performative and derived for the aim of social clout. This song aims to tell the story of a protestor who put it all on the line.

Released in November 2021, Buddhist Monk was the debut single from KILL, THE ICON! It has received consistent airplay on Amazing Radio and Amazing Radio USA.

Buddhist Monk

Naive And Trusting

"Sunshine Are You Mine?"
Written, performed and produced by Sam L. Jones.

Sunshine Are You Mine?

When you are far away

80:08

Exit

80KIDZ / Exit

'Humble Beginnings', getting played on BBC Upload on BBC Radio Bristol on 3/5/21: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W46Y95U8hZY

Friend or Foe?

Humble Beginnings

The second release from LOVE [released 12.10.18]
//Listen on Spotify: https://goo.gl/1S8H52


It's not a case of skill babe, it's a case of how much you are willing to forfeit. There is no hidden meaning beyond whether you can or cannot commit. If you're still in this scripture which was preordained: a product of your birth-time, your parents and your place, have you considered that you are not you but something kind of perverse? I hope you do before your last moments curtail you and you see that you were.

Deep inside your heart there sits a silver chair in which you long to stretch your legs and wet your head into the water that comes crashing down...

down the tree-top-view I walk and it haunts me to be left alone but that is because I see it for what it is. And it's only what I determine it is. And in my sullen thoughts I found you naked too. It is over this that I will misconstrue myself for something bigger than this, but it is all it is, it is what it is, it is it is it is.

And when everybody walks to the rhythm I will know that I have sung some kind of truth. I don't think Diana Ross knew that she was singing true when she said everything is me and everything is you, it is it is it is.

There's a willow in my head for I always had an affinity for that word ever since I was small and I think Pocahontas kept it in my brain. That is kind of how I feel when I am soaking up the thrill and I am vibes in a moment in a motion.

Recognising myself in a mirror is not how I feel for I am not the vessel I am the experience it bring. And there is moisture on the headcap for I love you deeply. And when I buried my head in the sand I was hurting only myself. But the fact is that these truths were a blessing when I was commit. And I no longer long for sex instead I have been making love. For that is what I am and I see now that is all of us. And you are still somewhere in your callousness but a day spent living right is a moment that I will know.

Thrush me to the wind over a year in my sin for a lifetime in the dark is a paler kind of living. And the water wick me out of your cement. I've melted to the fabric I repent. There's fixtures on the walls that do not represent. When your will is strong your body will lament. I've nothing but a feeling left.

Lament

Fireflies is the new single from the album “Wake for the Dreaming”, a rock opera based on Neil Gaiman’s graphic novel “Worlds’ End” from the epic “Sandman” series. 

Engineered by Benjamin Robinson, Francesca Pidgeon and Daniel Allen in the Westgarth SC in Boro, Ben's bedroom and all over basically
Mixed and Mastered by Em Brown
Spooker Rekkids 2018

Lyrics
I’m a nodding dog and she’s long gone
As block town county and state we pass through
Built around the route
As if the road was laid as the mountains grew

A thick snow in June
We’re tumbling into a field of stars
Impossible yes but not so unreasonable yet

The dark beast
Blocks the way to the East
No time to wake poor Charlene 
To offer apologies for killing us both
I know I might die
A moment of terror
And I can’t move

I walk until walking has no meaning 
Charlene, a dead weight
and I sink down into the snow	

When does the madness start
With the snow
With the Voice
Red stuff lives he says on the inside
Bad sign if it’s on the out
Just up the ways is an Inn he says
Just got to believe it’s there
So get up off your knees
With doubt comes fireflies and trees

Fireflies

Youtube: https://youtu.be/FMY0MmHPojM
--Lyrics--
I finally found you
Where'd you go?
It's a turning vision
you Are burning up
Burning up
Burning up
Burning up yea
Burning up
I finally found you
Where'd you go?
It finally writes itself
Can't make it stop
(Don't) Make it stop
(Don't) Make it stop
(Don't) Make it stop yea
(Don't) Make it stop
I finally found you
behind the door
You've always been there yea
Ready to go
The way to go
The way to go
The way to go yea
The way to go
The way to go yea
The way to go

I Finally Found You

You kiss me with one eye open
You strip me for spare parts

Show me the gallows
The spotlight
Give me a reason
A stop sign

You move me from ocean to ocean
Arrest me with tear gas and zip ties

Show me the gallows
The spotlight
Give me a reason
A stop sign

You love me with all good intentions
Release me with time and reflection

Take me to the gallows
Take me to the gallows

The Gallows

YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAXtPCQNZS4
--Lyrics--
Face down in a river
Drifts far from town
I’m crossing over
Drawn inside
Birds flying high over me
Not like the way they used to be
In the back of my mind
we still run
when we were kids
playing in the sun
And now you’re frozen and still 
in my mind
Forever kids playing 
out in the sun
far from town

Far From Town

Fresh On The Net is a music blog hosted by Tom Robinson and Team Freshnet, offering independent artists an open door and a level playing field for their music. Our inbox is open at http://freshonthenet.co.uk every Monday to Thursday morning - if you share a track with us there it will be heard by every member of our moderation team.

IMPORTANT: 
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A multi instrumentalist producer currently located in Berkshire.

New album "From This, No More Good Can Come" out on 25 June. 

Naive And Trusting

Andy Zuk

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