Mesmerizing Melodies

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 6th May. 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/batch528

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.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 528

Our moderators listened to every track we were sent this week and have picked their favourites for your listening pleasure this weekend:

Listening Post: Batch 528

Fresh Faves: Batch 528

Modern Fencing

At the start of 2023, behind closed doors it wasn’t certain if Bare Jams would be able to continue. However, instead of throwing in the towel, it was through a cathartic writing process that the Bare Jams ship was steered into fresh and exciting waters, giving way to their second album “No Rain. No Flowers.” All written in a relatively short burst at the start of 2023, the album has an overall theme of keeping loved ones close, looking after them, and, more broadly, perseverance.

With this album Bare Jams show they are not afraid to take on the serious challenges we all face. However, they are eternal optimists and worldly-wise enough to know we can absolutely turn things around and find our way through the mire. Looking at the world around us, this positive reinforcement is perhaps what we all need to hear. Don’t go numb!

Orange Sunshine

Wear It So Well

Don't Make It About Love

A 2 part song about the desire for freedom

Listen to the mad

Desire

The Bottle

Pluto

A song about one of the biggest frauds in history with the main suspect still ON THE RUN. Where are the missing 2,000,000,000.- US Dollars?
#Wirecard #Marsalek #fintech

LYRICS:
As little boy he absorbed the stories
About violence, fear and war
Too young to understand the meaning
The excitement he adored

Approved by granddad’s friends and contacts
Not knowing that he was a scam
Fabricating firms and contracts
Politicians eagerly signed

A shabby shelter secured with cash
But one day they will sell him, when gone the stash
On the run, Always on the run
On the run, Always on the run

Knowledge was used to manipulate people
Gambling and porn the twisted tools
Shaping fintech, he became a hero
Cards and wires the rules

A shabby shelter secured with cash
But one day they will sell him, when gone the stash
On the run, Always on the run
On the run, Always on the run

The fraudulent fortress finally fainted
He vanished without a sound
Power and wealth had left him tainted
Two billion nowhere to be found

A shabby shelter secured with cash
But one day they will sell him, when gone the stash
On the run, Always on the run
On the run, Always on the run

They approved it all
Yet no one could recall (4x)

On The Run

British Birds are back with 'My Bar', an absolute bouncing alt-pop corker.
British Birds bring their DIY ethic once again to create wistful acoustic psych combined with infectious, pure pop beats. Catchy, nostalgic, sing-along backing harmonies brilliantly complement Bobby's signature lullaby melody which wonderfully juxtapose the bridge's gnarly call to arms against My Bar's avian villain; the Cuckoo. 
This track's fun, vivacious, live-sounding energy is something you can't turn away from.


My Bar

Before and After Language....This song is a Markov Blanket between the two.....

Before and After Language

Longing

New tune under development. written by Gerald Shaffer doonesburyband.com 

I'm in trouble (live at the creek)

Prod. 2024 by Netrunner: 
This is a preview of my Pre-Release "Deep" I am still working hard on this one...so changes might and most likely will appear. Post me your oppinion. I need singers btw!  Hook me up if y´all down to collaborate. I am all about music, fk all that scam sh*t! One Love <3 Netrunner 

BTW: I hate genres..This song is influenced by Rhythmn & Quad, RnB, Hip Hop, Breakbeats, u know, the bass driven songs that get you movin--- so call it what you want! <3

Deep (2024) | Netrunner RnB & Quad | Pre-Release PREVIEW

The Boy In The Bagging Area

The M.E Scandal
I’m about to tell a story, a true story
I was Living life, music in my bloodstream
Then I got flu & it  vanished like steam 
Who knew flu could evaporate a dream
I never knew what it was all gonna mean?  
But I’m still Shackled to illness like I’m its b#tch 
Still scratching this 30+ year frickin itch
Kicked by exhaustion & lack of belief
All these stolen lives by the invisible thief
I need to escape to somewhere the wind blows
I don’t wanna  become yet another blue rose
On the social media posts of some
Let’s light a candle there goes another one
It’s become normalised an acceptable fate
The lingering death that we live and await
And I absolutely hate this, did I create this
Stressed til I burnt out, I struggle to face this
Denied point and purpose, rhyme or reason
Every day, week &  month every year, every season
Cancelled appointments, damn disappointments
And a default sorry well that’s the only ointment that we have to offer
With guilt & frustration
And with limited ways out of this situation.
It’s a lingering death that we live and await
And WE ABSOLUTELY HATE THIS.

Chorus
Doctor
(You’ve been playing a god so long you believe it yourself)
It’s the M.E Scandal
Doctor
(You’ve been playing a god so long you believe it yourself)

They never believed us, they all deceived us
Government, medical, media teased us
Decades of promises, words without action
The crumbs of their biscuits, huh, just a distraction
Allergic reaction all taken its toll
And the shrinks try to shrink us to the size of a pinhole
Oh no you don’t, we’re building the ark, 
Stronger together sailing out of the dark
Barking this is physical, co-operation critical 
But typically politically I have to spit it lyrical
They’re criminally sick but it’s of their own choosing
To neglect and abuse us, refuse the improving
I’m loosing my sh#t, get a grip, there’s still a way to go
I swear it’s gonna happen just not in my lifetime though
A  test, treatment maybe a  cure 
& future generations won’t suffer anymore
Get down off ya  cross and lay down ya crown 
Give back the award, there’s a real god in town.
Called truth, been here since the beginning
Standing in the shadows waiting for that winning moment
Our voices heard and apologies given
Watch this space for the next lyrical edition
Coz we ain’t going nowhere. It’s time. 

Chorus
Doctor
(You’ve been playing a god so long you believe it yourself)
It’s the M.E Scandal
(You’ve been playing a god so long you believe it yourself) 
Let’s get down to facts

It’s the M.E scandal, It’s the M.E scandal
It’s the M.E scandal, it’s the M.E scandal

Yeah it’s time the world knew, what people like me and you
Have been going through. It’s The M.E Scandal

You’ve been playing a god so long, you believe it yourself.

The ME Scandal Radio Edit

after eight

Palo Alto - Holding On

Based in Wigan, London and LA.
Multi Instrumentalist and songwriter: Gaz Moore
Multi Instrumentalist and songwriter: RDB

Before and After Language

Divide the Sun