Single Release - Dec 5th 2025
caulbearers.com
caulbearers.bandcamp.com/
music.apple.com/us/artist/caulbearers/646203375
open.spotify.com/artist/1K7ecWO2UgnBJCMIi5WOI9
www.youtube.com/channel/UCrbgCiAeNKWb6g_qQkkUfrQ
www.instagram.com/caulbearers/
www.facebook.com/caulbearers

Next World_release playlist

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 15th December 2025: 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/batch594

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.

Christmas songs and the like are also not eligible for the Listening Post, although we will collect these into a playlist that will be published on 24 December.

Full Inbox: Batch 594

Blood in the Water

Trespass

Single Release Date: December 5th, 2025

https://caulbearers.com
https://caulbearers.bandcamp.com/
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/caulbearers/646203375
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1K7ecWO2UgnBJCMIi5WOI9
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrbgCiAeNKWb6g_qQkkUfrQ
https://www.instagram.com/caulbearers/
https://www.facebook.com/caulbearers

Next World

Next World_(radio_edit)

LoFi and home recorded E.P. with tracks featured on BBC Introducing. 

Wishful Thinking

wondrousound (Rachel Butt) presents Duality, a spiritual anthem offering medicine for our divided world. The track invites listeners into presence and acceptance, softening tension, embracing the inner world, and choosing to engage with life from love and openness for the benefit of all. 

DUALITY

This is the first track that we wrote together. The lyrics describe a personal struggle with mental health and the barriers that we put up to keep us safe during difficult times. It was recorded in Maryhill, Glasgow and the sound combines our favourite elements of late 90s and early 00s US indie/college rock while staying true to where we're from. 

Easy Come, Easy Go

Caulbearers are a Manchester-based collective of musicians, but with contributors also hailing from around the UK and Europe. Based on the songs of producer and vocalist Damien Mahoney, their sound has been described as “archaic funk fables and soul migrations… bittersweet songs of the self, soul and society” and “roots music from the rainy city… psychedelic soul with poetic, social observation.The 8-piece ensemble weave together elements of hip-hop, funk, dub, soul and jazz, with plenty of grit and discord in the mix. Caulbearers’ rhythms, arrangements and soundscapes are hugely inspired by many forms of electronic music but are solely channelled through the use of live instruments.