LIStening Now // June 17th 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 19th June: 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/batch246

*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 246

Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 246 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 Bobby Colcombe - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves246

Fresh Faves: Batch 246

Free Anckaert - Highclouds playlist #12

Yeah

relax.

American Radio


time is moving
oh, so fast
creeping up - want the 
night to last

these dreams are wrestling
with our hands
gather strength for the
will to grasp

slow it way down
slow it way down

through the static
the  - voice it cracks
move the dial
try to - bring it back

there’s only one fix for
this deliverance

slow it way down
slow it way down

Give me something now - 
something I don’t know

Give me something now - 
let me feel the pull

I’m driving out so I can hear this
American radio

all the airwaves
in this dusty stretch
are filled with preachers
their raids and rants

we are just like children
in this land
just like children
not yet to stand

slow it way down
slow it way down

Give me something now - 
something I don’t know

Give me something now - 
let me feel the pull

I’m driving out so I can hear this
American radio

(harmonica)

Give me something now - 
something I don’t know

Give me something now - 
let me feel the pull

I’m driving out so I can hear this
American radio

Strange One EP

American Radio

In advance of the Level 3 Year Anniversary Party in New Orleans, DJ Voices digs into her bag for some favorites on the deeper side of house. 

@latenitesbookclub

DJ Voices - Level Mix for NOLA

Heartbreaker

People Like You 'Verse' is available on 12", cd, cassette, and digitally July 28th, 2017 from Topshelf Records.

Info: topshelfrecords.com/roster/people-like-you
Order: tpshlf.co/TSR175

People Like You - Variations on an Aria

Boring

Go to https://constantfollower.bandcamp.com to hear the full track.

Old Shorelines (For Nicki)

New single from the forthcoming album "The Echo of Pleasure"

The Echo of Pleasure

When I Dance With You

Primrose Hill

@thetamborays "Recharge" EP out JULY 17th via @OIMRecords

Vocals: Sara DaMert
Guitar: Brian DaMert
Bass: Greg Sellin
Drums: Bob Jakubs
Keys: Sara DaMert , Brian DaMert, Greg Sellin
Producer: Jeff Saltzman, Brian DaMert
Mixed By: Brian Phillips

Lyrics:
Tell me could you let me know 
Could you left yourself go?
Could you let yourself be
Release your fantasy
To be wild and free
To be bad like me!
Tell me could you let me know
Could you let yourself go?
Tell me boy do you get my style?
Because I could never figure out in time
Yes and no, Yes and no, Yes and no
Tell me girl do you get my mind?
Because I could never figure out in time
Yes and no, yes and no, yes and no.
Tell me baby am I on your mind?
Because I could never figure out
Can you feel the energy moving through your body?
This harmony is changing us, we can’t only live in lust
Or are we living la vida loca? 
To be wild and free
To be bad like me!
Tell me could you let me know
Could you let yourself go
Tell me boy do you get my style
Because I could never figure out in time
Yes and no, Yes and no, Yes and no
Tell me girl do you get my mind?
Because I could never figure out in time
Yes and no, yes and no, yes and no.
Yes and no, yes and no, yes and no
Did you have enough?
Did you have enough?
Take a chance and move on
Did you have enough?
Did you have enough? 
Pick up the pieces move on. 
So tell me boy did you get my style
Because I could never figure out in time. 
Tell me boy do you get my style
Because I could never figure out in time
Yes and no, Yes and no, Yes and no
Tell me girl do you get my mind?
Because I could never figure out in time
Yes and no, yes and no, yes and no.
Yes and no, yes and no, yes and no.

Recharge

Yes and No

Buy Me on Tape :)

The Tambo Rays - Yes and No

The 2nd single from the self titled, debut album by Fake Laugh.

Short of Breath it out now. The LP lands July 28th on Headcount Records.

Vinyl pre-order > headcountrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fake-laugh

Fake Laugh Facebook > www.facebook.com/fakelaughmusic 
Fake Laugh Twitter > twitter.com/FakeLaughMusic?lang=en 
Fake Laugh SoundCloud > @fakelaughmusic 
Fake Laugh YouTube > goo.gl/wRA3k0 
Fake Laugh Instagram > www.instagram.com/fakelaughhh/

order LP

Fake Laugh - Short of Breath

So Loud - double sided single // A side

Written and arranged by Aislinn Logan. 
Co-produced by Aislinn Logan and Carl Small. 
Mixed and Mastered by Carl Small.

So Loud

Out now from Precious Snowflake Records

"Resoundingly contemporary" - Crack 
"Incredible" - Huw Stephens, BBC R1

Spring

MEMO

Memo

Andromeda EP

Andromeda

Written, produced & recorded by Vadim Viks
© 2017
Mastered by Njal Frode Lie at NFL-Produksjoner

21/06/2017

Truth Or Dare

iPhone-Dembow vol. 6

IPHONE TRUE LOVE - mgz

Written by Robert Alfons
Produced by Robert Alfons and Damian Taylor
Mixed by Damian Taylor
Additional live drums by Lia Braswell
Mastered by Emily Lazar
Artwork by Martin Falck

Bicep

From the album The Kid out October 6, 2017 on Western Vinyl

Pre-Order The Kid
BLEEP https://bleep.com/release/86790-kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-the-kid
Norman Records https://www.normanrecords.com/records/166212
Bandcamp https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/album/the-kid
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WV http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv170

In 2017, the musical term “electronic” is nearly obsolete given the ubiquity of computerized processes in producing music.  Even so, the prevailing assumption is that musicians working under this broad umbrella must be inspired by concepts equally as electrified as their equipment.  Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has demonstrated in her still-blooming discography that this notion couldn’t be further from the truth, and that more often than not, rich worlds of synthesized sound are born from deep reverence of the natural world.  Smith (who by no coincidence, cites naturalist David Attenborough as a contemporary muse) has embodied such an appreciation on The Kid in as direct and sincere a way as possible by sonically charting the phases of life itself.  The album, which punctually follows up her 2016 breakthrough EARS, chronicles four defining cognitive and emotional stages of the human lifespan across four sides of a double LP.

The first side takes us through the confused astonishment of a newborn, unaware of itself, existing in an unwitting nirvana.  Smith’s music has always woven a youthful thread befitting of the aforementioned subject. Here she articulates it in signature fashion on the track “An Intention,” which serves not only as a soaring spire on The Kid, but on her entire output.  There is playfulness here, but it's elevated by an undertone of gravity into something compelling and majestic that is fast becoming Smith’s watermark.  The emotional focus of side two is the vital but underreported moment in early youth when we cross the threshold into self awareness.  The subject is profound enough to fill an entire album, but rarely makes its way into a single track, indicating Smith’s ambition to broach subtler and deeper subjects than the average composer.  This side offers up another highlight in the form of “In The World But Not Of The World” which serves its subject well with epiphanic, climbing strings and decidedly noisy textures over a near-Bollywood low end pulse.

Side three emphasizes a feeling of being confirmed enough in one’s own identity to begin giving back to the formative forces of one’s upbringing, which is arguably the duty that all great artists aim to fulfill.  This side ends with the exploratory album cut “Who I Am & Why I Am Where I Am” recorded in a single take without overdubs on the rare EMS Synthi 100 synthesizer. This humble piece of sound design serves as a contrast to side four’s verdant orchestral moments, all written and arranged for the EU-based Stargaze quartet by Smith herself.  This final side represents a return to pure being, the kind of wisdom and peace that eludes most of us until the autumn of life.  On “To Feel Your Best” this concept is voiced in the bittersweet refrain “one day I’ll wake up and you won’t be there” which Smith intended to be a grateful acknowledgement of life rather than a melancholy resentment of loss. The song has both effects depending on the mood of the listener, and both interpretations are equally moving.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith belongs to an ilk of modern musicians who are defined by their commitment to creating experiential albums despite the singles-oriented habits of modern listeners, and here she represents her kind proudly.  The subjects on The Kid are not simple to convey, and yet through both emotional tone and lyrical content, Smith does just that. There is a similar gravity to both birth and death, and rarely is that correlation as accurately and enthusiastically mapped as it is here.  As Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith explores her existence through music, she guides us in gleefully contemplating our own.

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - "An Intention"

"Come Be Me" by Helado Negro

Listen to this track and more at adultswim.com/singles.

Helado Negro - Come Be Me

Vocals, Lyrics-  Ola Szmidt
Recording and Mixing- Ola Szmidt
Mastering -  Kieran Hebden
July, 2017

Wrapped

04 Wrapped

'Beast Epic' (Release date: August 25, 2017) 
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Iron & Wine - Thomas County Law

When You Fall in Love was recorded in Venice, California with acclaimed producer Damian Francis Wagner (Madonna, Michael Jackson, the Stooges). It’s a love song set in a 1980s Egyptian dream that will surely have your head bopping.

When You Fall in Love

After turning heads with 2016's 'January Sun' EP, Russian producer Kedr Livanskiy is set to return to the 2MR label with a full-length album, 'Ariadna.' Slated for release on September 8, the LP finds her conjuring up a new batch of dreamy melodies and pop-leaning dancefloor sounds, including the soaring "Love & Cigarettes." The track debuted on Red Bull Radio's First Floor, our weekly look at what's new in electronic music.

@kedr_livanskiy
@2mrecords
http://redbullradio.com/shows/first-floor-shawn-reynaldo
http://redbullmusicacademy.com

Memo

flies+flies