WithGuitars April 2018 Sondcloud Playlist

Song finds week 2018/16

Any artist is welcome to send us a 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 4 June: from midday 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/batch286

If a track you submitted does not appear in this list, it is likely because another of your tracks appeared in our Fresh Faves or on the BBC Music Introducing Mixtape during the last three months — we ask that artists featured on either wait three months before resubmitting to give others a chance. You will be able to resubmit the track in future.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 286

FOTN 070618

the estranged-the subliminal man

Frozen Fingers

.look

Wild features on Brand New Moon's debut album, 'Difference & Repetition' - out now! hyperurl.co/dhu708


Featuring:
Mike Barrett - words, voice, keys
Nick Barrett - guitar
Rob Shuttz - bass
Jacob Smedegaard - drums, percussion
Nick Walters - trumpet & flugalhorn
Meg Woof - backing vocals
Produced & mixed by Mike Barrett
Mastered by Peter Fletcher at Black Bay Studios

Difference & Repetition [TEST MIX 3]

Wild

Now It's Over

Fire To Go

THIS AIN’T LOVE, the lead single to Charles Freeman’s upcoming EP, finds the Toronto crooner drifting on an atmospheric pop-R&B sound, balancing in-between sonic romance and moody disruption. Charles’ awe-striking vocals take on reactive auras detailed by the layered, pulsating production.

Anodyne

This Ain't Love

Charles Freeman - This Ain't Love

Compliments - Single

Compliments

Andy Cook's new EP, "Modern Man," out now via Good Eye Records ~ http://smarturl.it/modern-man

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What’s a man, anyway? It’s the central question at the heart of Minnesota-based songwriter Andy Cook’s new EP "Modern Man"—a 22-minute indie-rock/Americana ride that stokes twinges of nostalgia with jangly guitars, articulate synth lines and driving percussion.

The EP follows Cook digging into life in this hyper-digital age as the music harkens back to classic American songwriters. "Modern Man" takes a hard look at the present in its lyric-driven, sonically-rich landscape. “We’re living in a wicked world, where nobody believes anything they’ve heard…just a picture of a pretty face, with lonely eyes and a made-up grace,” we hear over a bouncing guitar line in the lead track “Swirl”—a song reminiscent of Real Estate or Kurt Vile, and that oscillates between pessimism of social media-curated life and optimism that we can be happy in our own shoes.

These observations are less criticism than they are experience, from the point of view of an artist who is finding his own voice and a comfort in presenting this music without trying to be something he’s not. Cook has long felt like someone who almost fits in, but not quite—stuck between who he wants to be, the pressures and images surrounding us daily, and the desire to be “in” while still being individual.

“These songs might mean something totally different to listeners than they do to me - but they mean something, and that’s what matters most,” Cook says. In this way, "Modern Man" is at once personal and made for peers in modern society. “I’m writing about experiences we live every day. There’s a kid inside of us and a mirror in front, and we need to ask them both questions if we’re going to figure out who we want to be.” After all, what’s a man, anyway?

"Modern Man" is out now and is the fifth release from Good Eye Records.

Modern Man

Buy "Modern Man" EP

Andy Cook - "Run"

After releasing debut single ‘Oceans’ at the end of 2017 and being featured in Upset Magazine, Alternative Press as one of the 20 bands you need to hear, and being asked by huge supporter Steve Lamacq to introduce themselves with a 60 second CV on his BBC 6 Music show, The Yada Yada Yadas have returned to show their songwriting chops once more in ‘Woke Up Strange’. 

This second offering from the band is made of sharp guitars, twisting together harmonically in all their fuzz and distortion, across a landscape of familiarity, forced under a more traditional pop songs skin. It's playful, aggressive, and fuelled with intention. In this latest installment from The Yada Yada Yadas, their US alt-rock influences really shine through, with tones reminiscent of Dinosaur Jr’s J. Mascis, and the playful craftsmanship and lyrical stylings of bands such as Pavement, Yuck, and early Flaming Lips. 

An ironic tale of the mundane and boxed in nature of northern life, Woke Up Strange provides an insight into the band on a social level though it’s relatable narrative. Here, The Yada Yada Yadas are more earnest lyrically than in previous offerings, more deliberate, and at times downright heavier musically. 

Speaking of the release, the band explain “Woke Up Strange is alternative rock in disguise. Hiding behind it’s unfolding overlapping hooks lay a pool of screaming guitars bathed in fuzz, rising upwards as they’re kissed by the light of the morning sun and born again to lay the foundations of a pop song. Narratively, the track has many insights to offer about the nature of conformity, the ever pesky and elusive ideological ‘Man’, and simple agreed fashion etiquette. Dynamic contrast is a huge part of our sound, and here in Woke Up Strange, this is demonstrated once more as screams dissolve into sweet melodies, and horrendous dissonance builds toward serene resolution.”

‘Woke Up Strange’ is set for release Friday April 6th 2018 via Silent Kid Records.

Woke Up Strange

in vain

Riverside

HIde (MHL & Miper)

The song 1.TAS is performed in Samogitian language spoken less than 100 000 people in western Lithuania.

1.TAS

A QUIET PLACE TO LAND - NEW ALBUM - OUT NOW!

Brand New Moon is the project of London-based singer-songwriter Mike Barrett. His self-produced second album, ‘A Quiet Place to Land' was released in September via Same Page Records

Combining expansive, evolving sound-worlds with vivid melodies and intricate lyricism the album reveals a yearning to escape the restless claustrophobia of recent times - an ode to blue skies, new landscapes, and the hope of re-connection.

linktr.ee/Brandnewmoon