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ENTIRE INBOX: BATCH 545

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 545

Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out Listening Post 545 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 POPPY BRISTOW - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves545

Fresh Faves: Batch 545

Nov/Dec 2024

Original Adam
Take me in your spare bedroom
We’re swapping atoms
The way he feels
He tastes like apples and venom
He left his mark on me

So surreal
The way this feels
A severance deal
Don’t make this weird

So what now I gotta control myself?
You’re wanting me placid but you know that I’m oceanic
So what now am I supposed to hold myself?
You left your make on me

It so surreal
The way this feels
A severance deal
Don’t make this weird

DONT MAKE THIS WEIRD

Come On Outside

The debut album from Spectre Horsemen, Pale With Dust.

Deconstruct Or Substructure Interlude

Your Love

Your Love (Edit)

An upbeat anthem about escaping societal pressures, this fun, rhythmic and playful song is so catchy melody everyone will enjoy.

SWEET ESCAPE

Stream “NEW KING!”: 

https://open.spotify.com/track/3Xb9MHpSgHfD3YK1kaYqpo?si=znfEAO7AShms2e-vm5L0Bg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4ppZMhZgddzsxus5cdwbup

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/stefanoark/new-king-2/

Track Credits:

Vocals: Stefano Ark, Finley Thompson
Producers: Stefano Ark, Brandon Panks
Songwriters: Stefano Ark
Mixing Engineer: Stefano Ark
Mastering Engineer: Stefano Ark

NEW KINGS, NEW QUEENS! (The New Earth) (ft. Finley Thompson)

#Innervisions #Âme #Curses #ShadowOfLove

Âme feat. Curses - Shadow of Love
Release Date - 04|10|2024
Digital | Stream - lnk.to/ShadowOfLove

Âme’s previous album already proved that the duo isn’t shying away from embracing collaborations - and implied musical sidesteps - with artists moving outside their Innervisions comfort zone. Now, six years later, they’ve teamed up with New Wave-overlord Curses for a musical alliance that just loves to play against clear musical expectations once again.

“Shadow of Love“ transports echoes of your favorite 80s New Wave anthem into the here and now and refines it with a strobe light makeover. The result is a synth-heavy, digitized banger reaching out for unified dancefloor euphoria while still managing to expand the sonic spectrum of everyone involved. It’s a surprisingly joyous, ecstatic, and breezy slice of, well, state-of-the art pop that probably offers the most radio-friendly piece of music both parties ever laid their hands on.

Innervisions
Instagram: www.instagram.com/innervisions_official
Facebook: www.facebook.com/innercityvisions
TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@innervisions_official
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Âme: www.instagram.com/ame_innervisions/
Curses: www.instagram.com/cursesforever/

Âme feat. Curses - Shadow Of Love

Heartstrings

Blood On The Hospital Floor

I was thinking back to being 11 years old, at the first rehearsal for the school play. It was my first year at the school, having recently moved country. It was extremely out of my comfort zone. My hands were in my pockets and I was slouching because I felt so self-conscious. The teacher shouted at me for having my hands in my pockets and for not standing up straight, as if it was the worst offence. It seemed out of the blue to me. Everyone was looking and I felt like the worst person in the world. My heart raced and my skin felt like it was covered in bugs. It was even harder to stand up straight. As children we get taught to never answer back, because it's disrespectful. Sometimes we grow up not knowing how or when to stand up for ourselves.

lyrics
Isolation
In its finest form
Withdrawing into a shell

Piercing sound
They're all looking now
Intentions unknown

I won't stand up straight for you
I'll be keeping my hands in my pockets too

I won't stand up straight for you
I'll be keeping my hands in my pockets too

Isolation
Isolation
Piercing sound
Isolation
Isolation
Piercing sound

Withdraw into your shell
It will all be over soon

Withdraw
Into
It will all be quiet soon

I won't stand up straight for you
I'll be keeping my hands in my pockets too
I won't stand up straight for you
I'll be keeping my hands in my pockets too


This will be available on all streaming services from October 25, 2024
Produced by Cholly
Mixed and mastered by Conor Amos

Pockets

Gave You Everything

Perhaps it was 2007, I started a moleskine as I have done for centuries, but this time without writing any dates, and mostly consisting of drawings. It was the year I first conceived Dream Society, graduated from art school, became self employed, lived in Battersea in a house with green walls, somewhere in a world beyond time and space; spending hours writing the most extravagant colourful websites using only a text editor, creating experimental films in which I cut out each frame by hand, making music with house hold objects and discovering a world of books that opened my mind and being to infinite possibilities, pondering about the nature of reality, consciousness and existence. My pals and I would go to the supermarket at 2:45am; I wrote songs on an old ships piano I had to tune anew every day, and a harmonium in the key of not-quite-Bb. 

Sometimes I had visions, like lucid daydreams, or frames of future memories: I once saw myself in a flowery dressing gown, writing books, in a flat with green walls in Amsterdam.  Another one had me play on Top of the Pops. Now wouldn’t that be funny, I thought. Sometimes a song would appear like that. Like this melody that appeared, and I had to write it down, and it never became a song, just a small mantra that kept popping up, sometimes, especially at times when becoming aware of my supreme impatience; a wanting of it All, Now! 

Yet when I create, I am patient, there is -only- Now. 

Many years later, in Amsterdam, not yet with green walls but in a colourful flat on my favourite canal, I started playing around with some homemade sounds, a harmonium, some birds, and then pressed record as I sang into the mic and words and melodies flowed freely, and there it was, this melody that time travelled and brought the rest of its song along, because sometimes this is how it goes, and time folds, and everything is different and yet in essence, so very much the same; falling awake from the illusion of time and space and separation, and there is only Now, and Now, and Now, in tune and in sync with the divine perfection of life.

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Be Patient, 
the world will soon be 
In your circle

Arrows flutter in the skies
And hollow holy earth,
The under breath of wanting to believe
And the slightest lion eyes
Behold
And the crowd is going mad
Cause they want us to glorify
And the flowers glow
Sleepless nights

Be Patient, 
the world will soon be 
In your circle

Round & round rivers,
And on the boat we rock
Back and forth
The lion sleeps and slides
Sleep and find me home

Be Patient, 
the world will soon be 
In your circle
Be patient, love will come
Be well patient
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Bloom de Wilde: Vocals, Fender Rhodes, Synth
Nick Trepka: Bass Guitar, Birds
Sam Ritchie: Flugelhorn, String Arrangement 
Juba Wetzler: Drums

Written by B. de Wilde de Ligny
Produced by Nick Trepka, Bloom de Wilde & Sam Ritchie
Mixed by Nick Trepka
Mastered by Nick Watson @Fluid Mastering

Recorded at:
Lullabye Factory, Amsterdam
Dream Society HQ, Amsterdam
Trepka Studios, Brighton

The Circular Being

Be Patient

🎃 It's time to Spook 👻

🦇 The Spooky month is here! And we are very excited 🙃 Halloween is our favourite Holiday, so it seemed only fitting that we release some songs to mark the occasion - so we wrote a whole new album "Happy Halloween" coming out on...well, Halloween!

💙 That said though, we wanted to announce it at the start of the month 📆 using this sneaky wee single - that's also 🪄 A SPELL 🧝‍♂️ "Toogras" is an old Swedish spell to find your true love, or generally invite goodness into your life. Simply write "Toogras" on your hand before dawn...and see what happens! 🫢

The second track "游魂野鬼" (Wandering Ghost) gives you a step into the Spooky month, and hints to our latest album 'Happy Halloween', releasing on...Halloween!

Toogras

Written & Produced by Dan Olsen
Mixed & Mastered by Fernando Reyes