Our moderators listened to every track we were sent this week and have picked their favourites for your listening pleasure this weekend:

Listening Post: Batch 531

Falling From Your Grace

On The Back Foot

Dwelling

Get It Right

NEW FROG! (Radio Edit / Clean Version)

Featured on Pitchfork (https://pitchfork.com/news/hotline-tnt-megan-thee-stallion-tokischa-this-week-pitchfork-selects-playlist) and Stereogum (https://www.stereogum.com/2241782/frog-maybelline/music). 

Stream & share the unedited version directly from the @heyitsfrog profile: https://on.soundcloud.com/JMbn2

Previous airplay for Frog includes: BBC Radio 1 (Huw Stephens), BBC 6 Music (Steve Lamacq / Gideon Coe / Tom Ravenscroft), BBC Scotland (Roddy Hart), David Gilyeat (BBC Oxfordshire & Berkshire) and KCRW (Jason Kramer).

"Maybelline" is the second single from Frog's "Grog" LP (out November 17th) - heyitsfrog.bandcamp.com/album/grog / open.spotify.com/artist/3ME5MgDqwM6G3UDLmwjftA

FFO: Jonathan Richman / Bruce Springsteen / Modest Mouse / Townes Van Zandt / Silver Jews / "The Secret of Monkey Island"

"Grog" LP Out Nov 17th: bit.ly/FrogGrogInfoPage

Brothers Danny & Steve Bateman return with their fifth album “Grog.” This collection of gorgeous Indie Americana is full of the nostalgia, hope, defeat and lust that earned previous singles “Judy Garland” and “You Know I’m Down” several million streams on Spotify.

Eclectic and wildly creative, this fully realized LP veers from the gorgeous grooving funk of “Black on Black on Black” to the classic pop of “Maybelline” before “New Ro” exemplifies the “gothic and cartoonish” characteristics that songwriter Daniel Bateman describes his latest work with.

Artist Quote:

“There are really exciting places we were able to get to on this record, places that I didn’t know existed before I found them. It feels both gothic and cartoonish to me, big gargoyles, dark skies, storms, but the statues are of ‘Aaahh!!! Real Monsters.’ Every song is a step deeper into the abyss.” - Daniel Bateman (Frog)

Previous Support: NPR / BBC Radio 1 / BBC 6 Music / TLOBF / CLASH / Gold Flake Paint / London In Stereo / DIY Mag / Various Small Flames / IMPOSE / Cereal & Sounds / For the Rabbits

Spotify Stats: 9.5 million streams / 78k monthly listeners (Oct 16th 2023)

Press Quotes:

“I was taken aback by its apparent simplicity; a simplicity that at first masked a wealth of subtle nuances, wry homages, and nostalgic narratives that were enough to make listeners lament growing up anywhere other than suburban America.” – The Line of Best Fit

“Locked between the unstoppable force of self-deprecation and the immovable object of the American Dream.” – Various Small Flames

“A subtle, stunning triumph.” – For the Rabbits

“Utterly brilliant...they make you nostalgic for memories you never had and take you back to places you’ve never before been.” - London in Stereo

"Grog" is out November 17th via Audio Antihero & Tapewormies: linktr.ee/heyitsfrog

Grog

Maybelline

Frog - Maybelline

1102 (single edit)

Welcome to YINYANG’s haunted haus of fun, where elements of hip hop, rap, electronic and alternative styles blend as if they’ve been waiting to synthesize. It’s dripping with cool and promises to prick your ears.

Kill Jester serves a murderous sonic cacophony about reincarnation and dropping dead weight in the form of inner demons. Sinister yet slick visuals dropping in 2 weeks, fierce yet positive message. “Don’t pursue it, if it’s not a fuck yes.”

Kill Jester - YINYANG

‘The Man at the Party’ a striking alt hip hop dialogue between B and one of ‘those’ guys at a party…
You know the fella. Kinda offended by a woman having the temerity to disagree/ correct him/ have her own opinion. It’s a confrontation and catharsis in song form!

The Man at the Party

CRYSTAL SHARDS 4 (feat. The Fantom Man)

Ensemble SEV 

Maayan James - Saxophone 
Dennis Sobolev - Electric guitar
Dan Weinstein - Cello

Ori Kadishay - Recording & Mix

Anat Nazarathy - Photo

Recorded on 2nd October 2023 in the Mazkeka Studios, Jerusalem

Things I Deleted for Baritone sax, Electric guitar and Cello

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All I Need (Emotional Sense)

Dj Russo - All I Need (Emotional Sense)

Learn To Surf

Pretty Suspicious, the second song from my debut EP is out now.

linktr.ee/alexandraleaving_

Written by Alexandra Leaving
Produced by Michael Smith
Mastered by Andrew Baldwin at Metropolis Studios

www.alexandraleaving.com

Damn. That’s pretty suspicious.
You’re the man, feeding the fishes.
When I got gas in the tank I head to the city.
I don’t wanna look back, I just wanna look pretty.
I just want to look pretty.

And you, you ask for a pay cheque,
Well this month maybe I, I just couldn’t make it.
Cos you’re the man in black, you think you own me,
But as a matter of fact you barely know me,
Oh thou most holy.

I could have got there faster,
I could have found the answer,
But I don’t have the answer,
No I don’t have the answer.

Damn. That’s pretty suspicious
You’re the man, preying on the fishes.
When I got gas in the tank I head to the city
I don’t wanna look back, I just wanna look pretty
I just wanna look ...
Pretty suspicious.

Pretty Suspicious

Leave Me Now

Two guys writing and recording remotely because events have conspired to keep them many miles apart. For now.

The Privacy Of Rooms (Radio Edit) - Master

my heart is with the waves

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