Indie-Alternative Rock February 2021

February

WL//WH - MARCH 2021 // Shoegaze /Dream Pop /Psychedelic /Indie Pop

Any artist is welcome to send us a track via freshonthenet.co.uk anytime between Monday lunchtime and Thursday morning (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 22nd March: 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/batch400

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 that have been previously submitted and tracks from banned artists will also be removed.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 400

You can find more on this playlist, plus other great new and emerging musicians at https://alternativefriday.com/ ♫

The Alternative Friday Mixtape 21 - #3

World

Cronin Bank Of Love Single Live Transmission Records 2021.WAV

Imagine Marvin Gaye...Isley Brothers...Daryl Hall...Curtis Mayfield...and you'll be in the right ballpark.....Super Soul vocals over an 'old school' arrangement given a modern feel!!! Perfect Cool Summer groove

SO HUNG UP (full lenghth version)  Ramon/Beauchamp

https://dayton.fanlink.to/angelinblackfanlink

Angelinblack.

From the forthcoming album - "The Man from S.A.D" -  out on Bandcamp on the 23rd April 2021

SAD MAN_The Vulcan

Download and stream 'Everything I've Ever Learned' - https://bloxx.ffm.to/everythingiveeverlearned

Follow -
https://www.instagram.com/bloxxuk​
https://twitter.com/bloxxband​
https://facebook.com/bloxxuk​
https://www.tiktok.com/@bloxxuk

Everything I Ever Learned

Open Roads

I Do This All The Time

Scientists of Sound said: "Whilst the weather can't quite make up its mind this week, on days like today where temperatures soar there's really no more perfect soundtrack than a dizzying guitar pop backdrop. No one seems to be doing it quite as well as The Diamond Age. With a bigger sound than ever before, the now trio showcase a swathe of swirling melodies and gleaming synth patterns that intertwine and convulse throughout its snappy 3 and a half minute duration. Taken from the band's forthcoming new due later this summer, have a listen for yourselves. " 

Video

Popular Science

The lead single & 12" from Light Asylum's self-titled debut album. 

Available now from Mexican Summer: 

www.mexicansummer.com


Light Asylum - Shallow Tears

from debut album out on BORN BAD RECORDS
MORE INFOS : http://www.bornbadrecords.net/releases/bb101-vox-low-st/

VOX LOW -  Now We're Ready To Spend

"Maria" is taken from Divino Niño's new album 'Foam' – out June 21, 2019 on Winspear: http://smarturl.it/foam-order

Listen: http://smarturl.it/foam-listen
Tour Dates: http://divinoninoband.com

Keep up with Divino Niño…
http://facebook.com/divinoninoband
http://instagram.com/divinonino
http://twitter.com/divinoninoband

Foam

Vinyl, Tape, CD

Divino Niño - Maria

East George

Taken from the album 'Running On The Spot' 
Recorded at Running Frog Studios Windsor May 2004 
Written by Denny Lloyd  
Produced By Neil Thom

What Am I Doing?

never gonna kiss her

The new single from Phantom Handshakes
From the upcoming LP 'No More Summer Songs' available to pre-order now through Z Tapes

Written, recorded and mixed by Phantom Handshakes
Mastered by Carl Saff

Cricket Songs

Cretins (Feat. James Beckwith & Harry Pope)

embalmers blush

Nunu's Cocktails

City skies is a single from Grids & Dots debut EP 'What happens to friendships'.

City Skies

Early November

Without their contribution to hold your sedan chair
You'd be plummeting to earth
Towards a ground now unfamiliar
Your life is like a monument to small achievements lost
That you'll never see in profile from a platform at the top

A taller tree will never reach its roots without a drop
And none would force the branches down for fear of getting knocked
Recognise the growth that cannot continue unstopped
In spite of much objection it cannot

So enthusiastic returning into frame
Smiling to camera
Never looking offstage
The audience is everywhere electric signals reach
You are a confident performer of words devoid of meaning

A taller tree will never reach its roots without a drop
And none would force the branches down for fear of getting knocked
Recognise the growth that cannot continue unstopped
In spite of much objection it cannot

A taller tree will never reach its roots without a drop
It's time to cut the branches back
All tangled up in knots
Recognise the growth that cannot continue unstopped
In spite of much objection it cannot

Taller Tree

This song was my companion for quite a while now and so I wanted to give covering it a try.

Thank you Black Marble for your music and not suing me <3

Iron Lung - Black Marble Cover

A special thanks to Marie from Grabyourface for her prompt collaboration and her majestic French vocals.  

Mix & Mastering: Joshua A. Pfeiffer

Waiting for a tragedy, 
Looping into anomy, 
A desert beyond recognition. 

Conquering, an iteration
Be divided, no salvation, 
Inward calling to descend. 

Insatiable hunger
Will tear us asunder
To prey and consume
Behold the doom. 

Combien de lunes peut-on attendre?
Combien de peaux doit-on comprendre?
Car la pierre te grignote,
Et l'écran te réconforte,
Combien de lunes peut-on attendre? 

How many nights will we live by
This game we didn't want to try? 
As the stone still devours
And a screen counts the hours
Combien de lunes peut-on attendre? 

Faces melting into one, 
No rest till this work is done, 
A self deceiving ecstasy. 

Power struggle, no completion
Abuse fosters repetition 
Pleasuring the unknown. 

The stone will end the chain, 
This loss is no one's gain, 
Be prey, be consumed, 
Be prey of whom? 

Combien de lunes peut-on attendre?
Combien de peaux doit-on comprendre?
Car la pierre te grignote,
Et l'écran te réconforte,
Combien de lunes peut-on attendre? 

How many nights will we live by
This game we didn't want to try? 
As the stone still devours
And a screen counts the hours
Combien de lunes peut-on attendre?

Spoken - from Herzkranzgefäß by Heiner Müller 

Gewitter im Gehirn  
(Storm in the brain) 
Blei in den Adern  
(Lead in the veins)

Was du nicht wissen wolltest, 
(What you didn't want to know)
Zeit ist Frist
(Time is a term)

Die Bäume auf der Heimfahrt
(The trees on the way home)
Schamlos grün
(Shamelessly green)

DOM-J (feat. Grabyourface)

#HorrorPunk #PostPunk #GothPunk

Cover of Babel - The Howling,The Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf Theme,Stephen W. Parsons Babel,Babel - The Howling Cover,Babel - The Howling 1986 Song,
------------------------------------------------
Here is a cover tribute re imagining of Babels 1986 track - Howling,

-Artist - The Ghost Of Bela Lugosi  
-Song:  Howling
-Year: released March 31, 2019
-Country: Australia
-Label: Unsigned
-Credits: guitars,bass,synth,drums,vocals recorded,performed by Lugosi

Thumbs up, Please Sub, Share, Support, Follow
TGOBL SITES
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheGhostOfBelaLugosi/
https://ghostoflugosi.bandcamp.com/
https://ghostoflugosi.blogspot.com/
https://www.facebook.com/ghostoflugosi/
https://www.instagram.com/beatsbylugosi

About TGOBL:-Raw, Dangerous, Sleazy, Erotic, Dark, Dancey, Perverse, Non Conformist, Catchy, Haunting, Subversive.
With Strong Echoes Of Those Who Came Before,& At The Same Time Something Totally New.

TGOBL is a Unsigned Solo Artist/Songwriter Producer/Mask Maker Based In Australia..

Howling

Writing these songs
you really choose your pain
but it's been so long
so why would I ever stay back

in that pain
that'll never kill me anyway
and I forgot what you said
but man, it really got in my head
back then

I should write a song
about politics
but won't be long
till people give a shit

in that pain
that'll never kill them anyway
and they forgot what you said
but man, it really got in my head
back then


Bass: Ketzal Mejia: https://soundcloud.com/snotrocketz

Politics

Produced by Kris Johnson and The Rope.
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Kris Johnson at Flowers Studio, Minneapolis, MN.
Artwork and design by Bleach David Temby.
All songs by The Rope.

In loving memory of Ed Ackerson.

Trenches

Viper

Released by the Los Angeles-based music label Crunch Pod in February 2021.

•Recorded in Copenhagen, Denmark 2021 
•Music & Lyrics by Pulsations. 
•Mixed and Mastered by Gonzalo "Lalo" Gzlez (@gonzalogzlez) 
•Cover Design by Pulsations. 
•Crunch Pod Catalog: CRUNCH 197
•Released by Crunch Pod © 2021

More information on PULSATIONS: 
facebook.com/pulsations

Lyrics:

No trace of truth
In the headlines
The vultures gather
To set their price

Carrying a thousand flags around
Dragging unlawful deeds on the ground
They've flooded our place on Earth
Don't waste your tears under the rain

They're falling
Sickles reach the edge of town
Hear them howling
But the queen will not kneel down
They're falling
And the risk premium goes up
It's appalling
They aren't even made of steel

Release me now from your arms
Another victim of these new times
A teen novice sets fire to the choir of thrones
And doesn't look up

Carrying a thousand flags around
Paint the wall then tear it down
They've flooded our place on Earth
It's time to run under the rain

They're falling
Sickles reach the edge of town
Hear them howling
But the queen will not kneel down
They're falling
And the risk premium goes up
It's appalling
They haven't even made us tea
We're made of steel

They're falling
Sickles reach the edge of town
Hear them howling
But the queen will not kneel down
They're falling
And the risk premium goes up
It's appalling
They aren't even made of steel
They're falling
Sickles reach the edge of town
Hear them howling
But the queen will not kneel down
They're falling
And the risk premium goes up
It's appalling
They haven't even made us tea

Of Vultures And Sickles

Bonus track from the upcoming Granite State Grass EP tape re-issue by Ezra Cohen on Relief Map Records.

Ezra Cohen - Mercy

From the album In a Deep and Dreamless Sleep available March 19, 2021 on Western Vinyl.
Pre-order / listen: http://smarturl.it/mi68ru

In A Deep And Dreamless Sleep

Mint Julep - "Pulse"

Bittersweet, anthemic, melancholy alt-rock made in Sheffield.

Dead Slow Hoot combine poetic lyricism with rich musical textures and sparse sonic landscapes to fill your ears with melancholy musings. After the release of their EP 'I Suppose They Were Better Off As Dead', Dead Slow Hoot have progressed to playing larger and larger stages, receiving critical praise from the likes of BBC Radio 6 Music in the process.

'Frontman Hugo Lynch delivers powerful, poignant vocals that culminate into an impressive mix of reverb drenched guitar riffs, dreamy melodies and energetic drums that will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand to attention and demand more' - English Rain Records

'Sounds like a haunting version of the Doctor Who theme if it were written by Danny Elfman and directed by Tim Burton as a glam rock opera' - Backseat Mafia