June 2016

Any artist is welcome to send us ONE track via soundcloud.com/groups/dropbox 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 6th June 2016: from mid-day 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/batch201

*Note: we don't listen again to tunes we've already heard, and automatically block artists who send more than one track a week (our moderators can manage to work their way through 150+ tunes overnight, but 300+ would be impossible!)

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 202

June 2016 Joys

Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 202 and tell us which tracks they liked best. Here, in alphabetical order, are our readers' top favourites. Our reviews are written by Fresh On The Net's Robjn  - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves202

Fresh Faves: Batch 202

There's some more class gigs happening this week and with it being NARC. Fest, we're showcasing some of our favourite acts playing at the free festival too! 

Combichrist // Riverside Newcastle, Wednesday 29th June
http://www.riversidenewcastle.co.uk/live-events/detail/combichrist/

Rabia Sorda // Riverside Newcastle, Wednesday 29th June (supporting Combichrist)
http://www.riversidenewcastle.co.uk/live-events/detail/combichrist/

Luke Winslow-King // The Cluny, Wednesday 29th June
https://www.thecluny.com/listing/luke-winslow-king-cluny-2-0

Bernaccia // Surfcafe Tynemouth, Thursday 30th June
https://www.facebook.com/events/982588538514992/

Ceiling Demons // Tyne Bar Newcastle, Thursday 30th June (supporting Tough Tits)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1712175569042423/

Outside Your House // Tyne Bar Newcastle, Thursday 30th June (supporting Tough Tits)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1712175569042423/

Champagne Charlies // Surfcafe Tynemouth, Friday 1st July (supporting Shinobi Fantobi)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1754132724801318/

Saul Williams // THINK TANK, Newcastle, Saturday 2nd July
https://www.ents24.com/newcastle-upon-tyne-events/think-tank/saul-williams/4682629

Shades // Tyne Bar, Newcastle, Saturday 2nd July (NARC. Fest)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1183443911675097/

A Festival A Parade // The Cluny, Saturday 2nd July (NARC. Fest)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1183443911675097/

Coquin Migale // Little Buildings Newcastle, Saturday 2nd July (NARC. Fest)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1183443911675097/

Grey Tapes // Ernest, Newcastle, Saturday 2nd July (NARC. Fest)
https://www.facebook.com/events/1183443911675097/

Gigs This Week (27.6.16)

Can't Control

Song from Metodos del Caos Album

itunes: http://open.spotify.com/album/5VXlzd1BD67rb4Wulsc8zY
Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/5VXlzd1BD67rb4Wulsc8zY

www.rabiasorda.com

02 Walking on Nails

Final Single off upcoming EP Creative Soul

Produced by Fortified

http://www.iamfortifiedofficial.com

Lyric Video

Results

Taken from Luke Winslow-King's self-titled first album.

Pigeon (From Luke Winlsow-King)

WATCH THE VIDEO:
GET THE FREE DOWNLOAD: http://shemakeswar.com/paper-thin

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Click here to find out more about the song: http://blog.shemakeswar.com/2016/03/paper-thin-free-download/

CREDITS:

Produced by Laura Kidd. Mixed by Dan Austin.
Engineered by Laura Kidd at Knowle Rocks.

Ukulele, keys, omnichord and vocals - Laura Kidd 
Guest vocals - Tanya Donelly - bellyofficial.com 
Cello - Martin McCarrick 
Jingles - Mister Benji

FREE DOWNLOAD

She Makes War feat Tanya Donelly - Paper Thin - FREE DOWNLOAD

Recorded and mastered at Blank Studios with Chris McManus.

Released April 2016

BERNACCIA - Awake

Jackal Onasis are set to release their debut "Big Deal Party" on Exploding In Sound Records. Due out June 24th, the album will be released on cassette and digital.

Jackal Onasis - Big Deal Party

Official audio to Invicti’s ‘Right Now’ featuring RH.

Produced by XaviorJordan.

Track #11 on Temporary | 20.05.16 

Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by LJ & Sarju @ The Cave.

Connect with Invicti:
http://facebook.com/iinvicti
http://instagram.com/iinvicti
https://twitter.com/iinvicti
https://snapchat.com/add/iinvicti
https://youtube.com/c/invictimusic
https://invictimusic.com

Invicti's 'Temporary' available now http://apple.co/2dsSKZl
Sign up for an unreleased song http://bit.ly/2d8PpDE

© 2016 Invicti Music

Right Now (feat. RH)

Single released July 22nd via Waco Gwenci.

Interior Design

Royal Box

Taken from Evans the Death's new album Vanilla, due out on Fortuna POP! on 10 June 2016.

It's their most their most ambitious and experimental album to date, eschewing the more traditional pop structures and hooks of their first two albums, 2012’s self-titled debut and 2015’s critically acclaimed Expect Delays. While Expect Delays was a step towards something more collaborative, experimental and abrasive - a bleak, introspective album that still retained a pop sensibility - Vanilla sees the band veer in an ever more adventurous direction: more aggressive, extroverted and raw.

Vanilla

Evans the Death - Suitcase Jimmy

The Four Five Six appears on Possessed by the Gods of Cowbell Oblongata by The Ramisco Maki Maki Rocking Horse. 

Lyrics: 

it’s the same, it’s the same again
nothing change nothing change nothing changes
ma ma ma ma ma ma ma mah mah mah mah
let’s all hit the four five six    

four for the sunshine in your life
five for the sentimental type
six for the words you won't let out
ain’t nothing but an absentee

it’s the same, it’s the same again
nothing change nothing change nothing changes
ma ma ma ma ma ma ma mah mah mah mah
let’s all hit the four five six yeah  

THE RAMISCO MAKI MAKI ROCKING HORSE - The Four Five Six

Glasgow's Batteries, the trading name of bis boy Steven Clark, return with the absolute rock hammer of "Pankhurst". It's a metallic synth-punk blast with a massive, stadium-ready melodic chorus which again seems to channel Queens of the Stone Age playing Devo or vice-versa. There's no denying the metal this time and the thrashy sting in the tail ends proceedings a million miles away from Steven's late 90's origins. Lyrically, it's lobotomy or not to lobotomy - the juxtaposition between wanting to give up and wanting to continue the fight. To be a footnote or a Pankhurst. An insight into new album "The Finishing Line" and its darker twists and turns, "Pankhurst" is Batteries modus operandi in all its glory.

Pankhurst

Track 4 from Holy '57's EP "O".

writ & perf // holy '57
mix // antonio hanna
art // lauren messervy

Available on bandcamp: http://holy57.bandcamp.com/album/o

Jep Shuffle

Artist: STUART NEWMAN
Track: One Big F (radio edit version)
www.stuartnewmanmusic.com

One Big F (radio edit) - STUART NEWMAN

Sundays is taken from the 'Belly of The Hopeless' EP, produced by Jonathan Swift and available via Frux Tapes. https://fruxtapes.bandcamp.com/album/belly-of-the-hopeless frux 003

The EPs final track, Sundays, sees the tone turn distinctively trip-hop as the twin brothers Psy Ceiling and Dan Demon confront the depths of depression with a hollowing chant of 'Stigmata, take my dagger...' combined with the inventive sampling and moody soundscape of Jonathan Swift. Can the man defeat the monstrous...? 

Lyrics:
Stigmata take my dagger 
Cut my throat and kill the swagger 
Curse the strange in us, become the dangerous 
Can the man, defeat the monstrous? 

Go ahead and open the pictures, unzip the folder 
Self absorbed climates feel the moister 
Sinking under, your airwaves anger, thicker and darker 
My vision delivers insight 
Coughing up stage fright 
This might be the night if you can only realise 
That the tension is undressing and learn these lessons 
Believe diseased questions 

Sleepless nights end the movie 
The credits roll and the room is empty 
Sleepless nights end the movie 
Gloomy like my moods, and they consume me 
Answers are mistaken identities 
Tragedies, without the subtleties or artistic integrities 

Answers are lonely and gritty 
Gloomy like my moods, and they consume me 
Sleepless nights end the movie 
The credits roll and the room is empty 
Sleepless nights end the movie 
Gloomy like my moods, and they consume me 

Stigmata, take my dagger 
Cut my throat and kill the swagger 
Curse the strange in us, become the dangerous 
Can the man, defeat the monstrous? 

I'm emulous and I'm floating on the waves 
Never really capable of taping all those lies to the grave, and i'm fearful there really is a God 
Even though I'm always anxious I'm living like I'm not 
Sticky wickets, watching films in snippets, bracing for a hat trick 
Am I at the steering wheel or am I scalextrix? 

Is he at the steering wheel or is he scalextric? 

Slumberless, I'm one step ahead of you, just one more year to go 

I've been touched by a King 
I whispered to the wind 
It's hard to be happy when your heart is made of tin

Sundays

Hesitation (Single)

"Evils Face" by Log Horn Breed.

Taken from the forthcoming split 12" with girls pissing on girls pissing, due for release August 2016 through MUZAI Records.

http://www.facebook.com/LogHornBreed
http://muzairecords.com

Log Horn Breed - Evil Faces

SLOW REVERSE FLOW

Магнитные Буги - Такси (Magnetic Boogie - Cab)

Smile medicine

Alternative Hip Hop
Discography:  http://ceilingdemons.bandcamp.com
Contact: ceilingdemons@hotmail.com
Ceiling Demons are an alternative art-rap band from rural northern England. Born out of bereavement and taking influence from artists such as The Streets, Joy Division, Tricky and Serengeti. Combining poetic wordplay from front men and twin brothers; Psy Ceiling and Dan Demon over cinematic instrumentals, Ceiling Demons aim to strike your heartstrings with their intense and chaotic performances touching on themes of love and loss. Art over entertainment, delivered with a punk philosophy. The Demons are strong advocates of addressing mental health issues in their art and have worked extensively with suicide prevention charities such as CALM to raise awareness and funds for a cause close to their hearts. They’ve also supported the likes of Young Fathers, Sleaford Mods and Busdriver among other favourites and are championed by Louder Than War and NARC Magazine in the UK for their passionate live shows. Their critically acclaimed album Nil has been released by two independent record labels since it first emerged in late 2017 with Win Big Records initially putting out the album on CD and cassette formats before DIY record label; Butterfly Effect re-issued the album as a beautiful limited vinyl in 2018 with profits going towards mental health charity - Men Tell Health.

'With Nil descends a darkness, themes of male suicide, of loneliness, and lost hope prevail but with a sense of positivity that everything will and can be overcome.' 9/10 - Louder Than War

'Living and dying by their definition of the dark arts, this will greatly benefit your gramophone.' - Monolith Cocktail

'Devastatingly beautiful.' - Spotlight Music UK

'A totally unique sound, which is borderline masterpiece.' - For The Love of Bands

'An undeniably bracing listen.' - The Crack

'Amazingly powerful and heartfelt' - Tom Robinson, BBC Radio 6 Music

'A curiously beautiful meditation on life and death that muses on the afterlife and the enduring nature of love'. - NARC Magazine

'Music that stresses talent and creativity' - EARMILK