Pop Guitars

February 2017

Bowl 28

Playlist 2: 2017

Any artist is welcome to send us ONE 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 20th 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/batch230

*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 230

FOTN 230217

fucking good music

Our selections for March 2017. Hear the full playlist over at http://www.birp.fm

BIRP! March 2017

indie..!!

A series of bedroom recordings between share houses, hostels and random locations between London, Amsterdam, Berlin and Nuremberg.

Wet Paint

Second single called "Feel Like Going Home" from homonym Ep by John Liar

Feel Like Going Home

White Hot Moon is out 04/29/16 on Run For Cover
Pre-Order: http://smarturl.it/WhiteHotMoon

Pity Sex - Burden You

CHANCE'S DEBUT ALBUM SURF, RELEASED 5/28/15

Sunday Candy

Single out March 11th 2016 on Anti-Ghost Moon Ray

Mixed by David Tindale

Cover photo used with kind permission from Mark Bailey, graphic design by A Painter.

www.antighostmoonray.com

Call Of The Void

Download and stream now:
http://geni.us/TogetheriTunes
http://geni.us/TogetherSpotify

Connect with The Night Café:
www.twitter.com/nightcafeband
www.facebook.com/nightcafeband
www.instagram.com/nightcafeband

Together

AKS - Stay With Me (feat. Sincerely Wilson)
As premièred via Earmilk: http://smarturl.it/StayWithMeAKSVid

Watch the Official Video: http://smarturl.it/StayWithMeAKS
 
Pre-order "Train of Thought EP" and get "Stay with Me" instantly on iTunes: 
smarturl.it/iTOTEP

Physical copies available at: http://AKSmusic.co.uk

AKS - Stay With Me (feat. Sincerely Wilson)
Produced by DemDrums (@isyss)
Piano Accompaniment by Matthew Smith
Video Directed by Chas Appeti

Follow AKS online: 
facebook.com/AKSonline
twitter.com/AKSonline
instagram.com/AKSonine
@AKSonline

Follow Sincerely Wilson
facebook.com/SincerelyWilson
twitter.com/WilsonSings
instagram.com/SincerelyWilson
@SincerelyWilson

Buy on iTunes

Stay With Me (feat. Sincerely Wilson) [Prod. by DemDrums]

Newcastle dream pop outfit Seeing Hands have announced the upcoming release of their debut single ‘I Knew You’. Recorded in their hometown, the track is the first in a series of releases planned over the next twelve months and sparks immediate comparisons to the likes of The War On Drugs and Wild Nothing.

Comprising of Kev Curran (vocals, guitar), Nick Hodgson (lead guitar), Jon Varty (bass) and Liam Guillan (drums), the quartet’s jangly guitars and dreamy vocals have already earned them airplay on Radio X and their profile is sure to be enhanced further following this first single release.

Produced by Jack Boyle and John Elliott (Loft Studios, Newcastle), Seeing Hands’ ‘I Knew You’ is released on 5th August and will be available to purchase on iTunes and Spotify.

Artwork by Mark Buchanan.

Video now on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqLOkuO3iF8

I Knew You

It's Yours

(A Song For) Paula E. Sheppard

Things change when you leave home, especially when you leave home due to a bad family... This is from multiple perspectives of parents and child.

Safe

Watch the official video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAXvS5nfBJo

CONNECT WITH QUINN XCII
www.quinnxcii.com
www.facebook.com/quinnxcii
www.twitter.com/quinnxcii
www.instagram.com/quinnxcii
http://bit.ly/quinnxciispotify

The Story of Us

Straightjacket

STREAM/PURCHASE

Little EP I've been working on for a while!
Other places to stream:
Spotify - spotify:album:45QqqyFFpC8Dwv4D58GgjF
iTunes - https://itun.es/us/t5nngb
Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR_IXWY8-AM&list=PLcmE7nxLdncr3ZyuWLv-49bHXfDNQajua
Bandcamp - https://qb1-o.bandcamp.com/releases

02 Def Dude Mister

◈ This groovy track by Slacker is sure to evoke some feels. It is a perfectly mixed cocktail of punchy and smooth. It's sure to take your breath away, let us know what you think in the comments! ◈ 

■ Youtube Visuals 
□ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnY4CnPfdUw

✦Slacker
⟡ @slackervibes
⟡ www.facebook.com/slackervibes

✦Phonotecture 
⟡ @phonotecture
⟡ www.facebook.com/Phonotecture-425889387609744

✦Sam F Hinton Illustration
⟡ www.facebook.com/sfhillustration


original:
https://soundcloud.com/nightowlcollective/s-lyre-air

FREE DL

s. lyre - air (slacker remix)

tickle me

FSUL (Official Audio) by Sliimsam
Follow Sliimsam on
Facebook : www.facebook.com/Sliimsam
Instagram : @sliimsam instagram.com/sliimsam/
Twitter : @sliimsam twitter.com/sliimsam.
Snapchat : sliimsam. 
buy-link : http://soundcloudfollowers.org/download/?track=22746
Contact - sliimsam@icloud.com for Booking and Enquires.

FSUL (Fuck Shit Up & Leave)

FSUL (F**k S**t Up & Leave)

PRE-ORDER 12" VINYL EP http://hopest.re/HS028VINYL

The best way to speed up a chemical reaction is to invite change and introduce an outside force: light, heat, movement. As The Cactus Channel know full well, the same goes with sound — introducing change compels a composition forward, as it rises, falls, peaks and boils. On their first release of 2017, vocalist Sam Cromack (Ball Park Music, My Own Pet Radio) is this catalyst for change, as the band collaborate with him on a full EP, introduced by lead single “Sorry Hills”.

As frenetic rhythms build only to fall away, and melodies loop, dive, and stutter, The Cactus Channel make music that both functions on and demands reaction. This collaborative EP treads a thin line between alt-soul and the best of indie pop, swimming in compelling atmospherics and deftly weaving Cromack’s rich, drawling vocal and disarming, meditative lyrics through the band’s typically intuitive arrangements. 

The Cactus Channel formed in high school, united by shared interests and a shared sense of humour — a love of soul music and the kind of hip hop, jazz, and alternative releases that spring from it, meant that from the beginning The Cactus Channel have prided themselves not just on eclecticism, but on the constant sharing of influences among their members. On this EP, the band venture into their second recorded project with a vocalist, exploring new influences and sonic territories.

Lyrically, “Sorry Hills” is heavy with a kind of guilty melancholy that belies the wordplay in its title — Cromack’s dark, introspective lyrics are accompanied by an instrumental that buzzes with a slight sense of paranoia: in the song’s instrumental bridge, the rhythm section simmers as horns let forth quiet squeals.

The band takes equal cues from hip hop instrumentals and golden era Soul — counting the sounds of  frequent hip hop collaborators BADBADNOTGOOD and the tight arrangement and production style of Stax Records as influences — as they build tracks that leave room for words to grow, breathe, and take focus, but never underestimate the power of beat and rhythm to build tension and release. 

Cromack’s voice is afforded a new palette in this project, as his vocals climb through horn arrangements and rhythm with unprecedented light and shade. 

“Sorry Hills” is out February 10th on all streaming services through HopeStreet Recordings, with the full 6-track EP out in April.

Sorry Hills

PRE-ORDER 12" VINYL EP

The Cactus Channel & Sam Cromack - Sorry Hills

zack n kelly

Heartbreak Diet

wonderbread

u wanna wait

Fazerdaze - Lucky Girl

First single from Cajsa Siik's DOMINO. "Talk To Trees" out February 3rd 2017 on Birds Records. 

Follow Cajsa Siik:
www.cajsasiik.com
www.facebook.com/cajsasiik
www.twitter.com/cajsasiik
www.instagram.com/cajsasiik

Follow Birds Records:
www.facebook.com/birdsrecords
www.instagram.com/birdsrec
www.twitter.com/birdsrec
@birds-rec

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MANAGEMENT
Birds Will Sing For You
Petter Seander
0046739434920
office@birdswillsingforyou.com
www.birdswillsingforyou.com

UK PRESS:
Mystic Sons
liv@mysticsons.com / james@mysticsons.com

BOOKING:
United Stage
Tea Lindholm
tea@unitedstage.se
www.unitedstage.se

PUBLISHING:
Bleed101
www.bleed101records.com

Lyrics:

Floating on a dream
Somewhere in between
Dancing through the tree tops
To somewhere else

Talking to a cloud covered up in glitter
Falling through a big white cloud
When it hit her
Woke up on the outside
Say can you tell?
 
What about the truth love?
When you're waiting for the storm to fill you up
inside
Hit me with the truth love
Waiting for the storm to change your mind
Let's stop fighting
Let's stop faking, love

Talking to a wave
Asking to be saved
Covered by the daylight
She couldn't see
Reflections of a past covered up in glitter
Falling through a big black cloud when it hit her
She woke up on the outside
Say can you tell?

What about the truth love?
When you're waiting for the storm to fill you up
inside
Hit me with the truth love
Waiting for the storm to change your mind
Let's stop fighting
Let's stop faking, love

Cajsa Siik - "Talk To Trees"

Orthodox Man

Orthodox Man (Acoustic)

taken from beko_djokovic - pady / caligula EP

http://beko.bandcamp.com/album/beko-djokovic-pady-caligula-ep

Djokovic - Pady

It Changes is written by Annelotte De Graaf
Produced and recorded by Ben Greenberg
Mixed by Jez Williams

Guitars by Manuel van den Berg
Bass by Ronald Straetemans
Drums by Jaap Bontekoe
Synths and keys by Ella van der Woude

Artwork and photography by Nick Helderman

www.amberarcades.net

It Changes

Recorded at Tape Studio Edinburgh
Produced by Stephen A Watkins

Whatever It Is

Mise En Place out May 5, 2017 via Father/Daughter Records
BUY --> http://smarturl.it/miseenplace

http://alexnapping.com/

Mise En Place

PRE-ORDER

Alex Napping - Living Room

https://foglake.bandcamp.com/album/dragonchaser

dragonchaser

Fog Lake - Breaking Over Branches

1st single from upcoming Penny Police album!

No Horizon

Penny Police - No Horizon

Reverie

i dream about peanut butter because i like it a lot and i usually dream about things that i like because dreams are where you just get to chill and think about cool shit n stuff

Peanut Butter Dreaming

First single release. Available on download or visit us at
https://www.facebook.com/vespertineband/

Paint the Darkness

**You can download this song free at www.selahphonicmusic.com for a limited time!

Selahphonic release their new single "Had Our Heaven"

Carving out a reputation as one of Australia’s hardest working independent indie-pop bands, Sunshine Coast-based, Selahphonic have just unveiled their new single ‘Had Our Heaven’ – The lead track lifted from their forthcoming and debut EP ‘Therapy’ - Recorded at Cooper Lane Studio, Sydney by Chris Collins (Gang of Youths, Tigertown, Middle Kids).

Keeping in line with their signature anthemic stadium pop sound, ‘Had Our Heaven’ glimmers with synth-laden hooks, infectious lead-guitar licks and is backed by a simple, yet sturdy and bouncing rhythms; all combining to complement the catchy sing-a-long melodies of endearing front man, Jamie Coyle.

Had Our Heaven

Inspired by the sounds of surf, psych, and garage rock, Dazy Crown combines a retro lo-fi sound with fresh rhythms, simple melodies, and funky vibes. The four piece band was started by frontman Thomas Little, who is from Newmarket in Canada, but now lives in Norwich UK. Other members include James Darley (lead guitar), Thomas Rees (bass), and Theo Lewis (drums).

Email: thomaslittlemusic@gmail.com