ECLECTIC PICKS - 2023 (Freshonthenet)

Choices of the Grasshopper March 2023

+ MARCH 2023 PART II

March 2023 - best new alternative, punk and indie tracks

Any artist is welcome to send us a track via freshonthenet.co.uk anytime between Monday lunchtime and Wednesday evening (or when we receive 200 submissions, whichever is sooner) - and all our moderators, including Tom Robinson, will listen to every track. This is our full inbox from the week beginning Mon 13th March 2023: from Friday afternoon 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/batch481

If a track you submitted does not appear in this list, it’s probably 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. 

We also don’t accept short previews or SoundCloud Go tracks that can only be heard as 30 second previews, and tracks made private after submission, which cannot be included in playlists. You will be able to resubmit the track in future. Tracks (and remixes of tracks) that have been previously submitted, and tracks from banned artists will also be removed.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 481

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Written by Slow Pulp
Performed by Henry Stoehr, Theodore Mathews, Alexander Leeds, Emily Massey
Engineered, Mixed, and Produced by Henry Stoehr
Mastered by Heba Kadry
Album Art by Henry Stoehr

Shadow

What we was Banging

Velodrome

Stomach

More Than This

A X6402 Collaboration:
Six Four Zero Two x Emma Forman.

Inspired by the courageous women of Iran – fighting for their rights to live in dignity and against the atrocities.

CREDITS:
– Music, Instrumentation and Production: Six Four Zero Two.
– Lyrics & Vocals: Emma Forman.
– Engineering: 6402.

LYRICS:

Stay strong, stay strong
Stay strong, stay strong

They tried to silence her
One brave voice
They tried to silence her
One brave voice
One brave voice

Woman
Life
Woman, Life, Liberty!

Woman 
Life 
Woman, Life, Liberty!

For all womankind
For all womankind

Rise up, rise up
Rise up, rise up
Rise up, rise up
Rise up and let your voice be heard

Woman 
Life
Woman, Life, Liberty!

Woman 
Life
Woman, Life, Liberty!

One brave voice
One brave voice
One brave voice
One brave voice

Woman
Life
Woman, Life, Liberty!

Woman
Life
Woman, Life, Liberty!

Stay strong
Stay strong

ONE BRAVE VOICE (feat. Emma Forman)

Apple

Self Portrait

The third and final single to be released by Glasgow psych rock trio Shredd from their debut album 'The Place Unknown' before its release on Friday 2nd December.

Released on Friday 25th November, 'Enigma' is a headbanger with a guitar riff that gets stuck in your head within one listen. Shredd's signature powerful drums and bass lead the song into a more upbeat tone than previous releases, but an aggressive chorus and a rhythmic breakdown bring 'Enigma' to a chaotic crescendo highlighting the bands ability to weave intricate riffs and intense noise together. The  newest single gives you another taste of what to expect from the debut album from Glasgow's loudest band!

Enigma

From Hell to Here

Leave This Place

‘Life’ is French Alps Tiger’s sixth single and comes ahead of their debut E.P, to be released digitally and on 12” vinyl in the spring of 2023. FFO: Weezer, FIDLAR, Wavves, & Bass Drum of Death. Produced by Chris Dimas of Canada's Surf Dads & Bleeker.

Russ (French Alps Tiger) explains, "If you can spank your entire ethos on living into a 2 and a half minute bop, you might be bad at being a person. ‘Life’ is our rage-stomping ode to embracing the stuff they didn’t mention at the end of Train-spotting, cuz you never woulda made it going straight anyway. A pack of tissues for your daddy issues, and a warm pint of “I didn’t ask to be born, Mam!”

Life

Rising Tide

Oliver Tree - Wasteland
Cowboy Tears (Deluxe) out now: https://olivertree.lnk.to/CowboyTearsDeluxeSO
Shop Oliver Tree merch: https://olivertree.lnk.to/StoreSO

Lyrics: 
I came, I left
No more wasteland
I ran, I’m gone
No more wasteland

You got me thinking this is it
You got me thinking this is the end
You got me thinking this is it
You got me leaving this wasteland

I’ve been wasteful
I’m not ungrateful
I just got my plate full and I’m filling my face

Stop acting hateful
I’m not an angel
You gotta save yourself from this place

You got me thinking this is it
You got me thinking this is the end
You got me thinking this is it
You got me leaving this wasteland

I tripped on the way back
I’m falling and hate that
I’m buried in trash to my neck

Nothing to say now
I’m still stuck from the waist down
Climbing my way out of this mess

I watch the best things go to waste
‘Til I got nothing
I don’t belong here anyway
So I hit the ground running

You got me thinking this is it
You got me thinking this is the end
You got me thinking this is it
You got me leaving this wasteland

I came, I left
No more wasteland
I ran, I’m gone
No more wasteland

No more wasteland

You got me thinking this is it
You got me thinking this is the end
You got me thinking this is it
You got me leaving this wasteland

Connect with Oliver Tree:
http://olivertreemusic.com
https://instagram.com/olivertree
https://tiktok.com/@olivertree
https://youtube.com/olivertree
https://twitter.com/olivertree
https://facebook.com/olivertreemusic
https://vk.com/olivertree

Wasteland

Stream/Download

Recorded and produced by Marten Hurley in Salford, England, and Matthew Boswell in Cardiff, Wales.

Available on limited edition cassette tape and digital download from Ramber Records (RAM_024): https://ramberrecords.com/releases/ram024-emperor-zero-nights-of-the-hunter-ep

Photography © Philip Andrew Hunter, 2013
Music © Emperor Zero, 2023

Absalom

A dark and atmospheric, progressive instrumental piece with electronic and organic instrumentation.

Outsiders

Demi O - Nightmare Trust

Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)

Fear Evil Like Fire

Off Planet Part 2

Come Down

If You Don't Want My Love

Sonic Waves

Good Thing

' Cello Song

villagers

the habsburg jaw

ALL I GOT

Dummy

Nowhere To Go

'Divide' is the new single from Bradford alternative rock trio 'Drella'.
The single was produced by Sugar House Music (Corella, VENUS GRRRLS, Viola Beach) at Catalyst Studios, St. Helens.

Divide

Alien Grace

Alright

I Like It

Winter - from the new album POLARCHORAL by GRICE
Album Release date: 4th November 2022

As Winter descends...'look to the spring'
A song of renewal and hope - from the darkest hour just before the dawn.

'an artist of rare refinement - an album of exquisite beauty' - PROG magazine

Grice: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, sonics.
Robert Brian: Drums. 
Al Swainger: Double Bass. 
Alan Burton: Jillian pipes
Luca Calabrese: Trumpet
Jack Lawrence: Autoharp

Grice Peters (GRICE) is a British Art Rock musician, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer from South London and currently based in the Southwest of England.

Website: www.gricemusic.co.uk 
Bandcamp: https://grice.bandcamp.com/album/polarchoral
Facebook: www.facebook.com/gricemusic
Twitter:  www.twitter.com/gricemusic/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/gricemusic
Youtube: www.youtube.com/gricemusic

POLARCHORAL

Winter

Winter (Radio Edit)

Mind the gaps, don’t fall through cracks and leave all stones unturned.
There’s truth in lies, you won’t always get what you have earned.
Wandering in the wilderness will get you nowhere slow
if you have no place to go.
This isn’t how it is, this isn’t what we do.
The laws of gravity push down on your youth
and for every bad hangover there’s another sober thought.
Love can’t be taught.
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Space and time make children of us all.
The universe holds each of us both big and very small.
From up above we look like love, lonely and so blue
and almost true
with action and purpose, subtlety and poise
but when decency fails, honesty annoys.
When only trivia prevails after all is said and gone 
truth hangs on.

High Street Ruminations

New single by Geordie punk group Swine Tax, featuring guest vocals by Robyn of bigfatbig fame.

Words & music by Swine Tax.
Artwork by Vince L.

Swine Tax - Annual Leave

Resolution/Revolution

Tell a Lie

Pure Morning (Midnight Sabers Remix)

I Like It

Casual Drag