Tobi's Fresh Net Faves 2022

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 4th July: 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/batch454

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ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 454

Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 454 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 Louise Toal - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves454

Fresh Faves: Batch 454

Notemakers

No Photographs of me Exist
Music Written & Performed By Esslemont
Features on the EP 'Never Really, Never Never'.
2021

No Photographs of me Exist

No Photographs Of Me Exist

Awesome sample from Cleo Sol and Lee Hazelwood helped made this track very easy. Nice vibes they say. Who says that anyway? Check out the originals here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IdLgRpa3W0 and Lee Hazelwood - Let's take a walk down Valhallavägen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxkRpW5hqfg

Big Sister

Stream 'Scooters' now: https://listen.hipdozer.com/scooters

Scooters is the second single from the project, and the song explores relationships, the passing of time and the arrival of winter. The self-produced song blends mellow hip-hop & melodic R&B, and it also features Bristol-based artist Slowe, who has received radio support on BBC Radio 1.

Harbours

Scooters

Stream

Webmoms & Ciaran Austin - Scooters (ft. Slowe)

RESET MY PASSWORD

Familiars

Electronic Producer/ Performer ‘Amongst The Pigeons’ is back with a brand new single ‘The Monsters Are Hiding In Plain Sight’.

Sussex based Amongst The Pigeons has teamed up with singer-songwriter and poet Alice Hale (With Sun) on this spoken-word electronica track, taken from the forthcoming EP ‘Why Does It Matter If We Hear Each Other’.

The two met when they played on the same bill at a gig in Summer 2021. After the gig, Daniel asked Alice if she’d like to collaborate – this track is the result. 

It features Amongst The Pigeons trademark beats, bass and synth soundscapes, overlayed with Alice’s spoken voice.

The new EP also features Helefonix, Helen Whale from Lines of Flight and Dirt Lane Cocktail Party.

The single is out on 15 July 2022 on all digital/ streaming platforms via Peace & Feathers. The full EP follows on 29 July 2022.

The Monsters Are Hiding In Plain Sight

The Monsters Are Hiding In Plain Sight (feat. With Sun)

Release date:
22 June 2022

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Instagram www.instagram.com/barpandora
Facebook facebook.com/barpandoramusic
Twitter twitter.com/barpandoramusic

Vice Vice Vice

Traffic (feat. Fletcher  James)

Traffic feat. Fletcher, James

On the 8th of July Codewalkers are back with a new single ‘Preternatural’. Coupling their unique, upbeat fusion of genres with vocalist Seun Babatola’s trademark probing lyrics, ‘Preternatural’ explores themes of choice and sacrifice, asking how far are we willing to go to get what we want and what are we willing to give up in return.

https://www.codewalkers.uk
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Silver high snorting like it’s rock and stains
Golden hands sticky from the blooded rain. 
Platinum are the rings that bind
Glittering wealth? I’m a leave behind
All the weight threatening - to drown
Everything blocking out - the sound
All of it stressing me, keeping me down
If I’m gonna reach the sky keep my feet on the ground.
Keep it subterranean, GTA-4
Gangsta Albanians, crashing through door.
Stereotypical, everybody judging, 
life is illegal, ain’t nobody budging
Fixing all the rules, like your life is supernatural
Treating us like fools, its on the actual
Facts are alternative, bloodline preservative,
Far right, far left, centrists are purgative.

If you’re wanting to grow, leave the hate that you know,
E ma pu ro the truth, jeje asoro O.
When a be time to let go, better the devil you know, better the devil you know.

Too hungry, dangerous, I
Drink moonlight envious, my
Skin reeks of earth and sweat,
and If the full moon hits I’m gonna lose my bet
I’m lose my mind, and if you ever find me,
Howling you better run and hide see,
Instincts from rage and shame,
Bronze eyes glowing in the sunlight flame.
I’m living this life like a virtual game
And if you see me glitching, glitching, shame
Call me the utopian, deadlier than plutonium,
Quick with all that boasting coming out urianium
Stay in your aquarium, live in your vivarium, 
So cold-blooded i embody a solarium
Joking, my cranium is bigger than a studium
Ego so much bigger than the living planetarium.

If you’re wanting to grow, leave the hate that you know,
E ma pu ro the truth, jeje asoro O.
When a be time to let go, better the devil you know, better the devil you know.

Like a wendigo, we running through the snow,
Carnivorous we feeding chivalry with glow
Should a listened close, should a never made the deal, but
Better the devil you know

I’m reeling my fate is sealing,
Golden handcuffs from the pain that Im dealing
Never one to be tied to the truth, now

Take it to the end, take consequences.
Crypto inscripting soul bound sequences
Playing games at the crossroad pyre
better the devil you know,

So I’m stealing the seconds i got left,
Failed my family so they won’t be bereft
Guitar in my hand as I’m facing the fire
better the devil you know.

Codewalkers - Preternatural

Single Thread

This track is a stripped back mix of the most recent Two Black Sheep single release of "I Forgive Me". Gone are the acoustic guitars, bass and orchestral arrangements and the resulting remix a vocal performance  pushed to the fore with a minimal piano track that results in the personal emotional lyrics to stand out.
This mix is not available on general release via streaming platforms and can only be obtained on physical CD from the Two Black Sheep website.

I Forgive Me (Piano Mix)

Taken from my 2022 album, As sure as day is light

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5K7N2o1Ova6whNRU1dJLff/discography/all?pageUri=spotify:album:6aDyqrbk3Y9WAIl81p7bAa


https://danmckean.bandcamp.com/album/as-sure-as-day-is-light

All I Know

Cardiff based trio - rap/rock/reggae. BBC Horizons Artist 2019/2020