Tobi's Fresh Net Faves 2022

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 January 31st: 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/batch434

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.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 434

Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 434 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 Louise Toal - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves434

Fresh Faves: Batch 434

No Photographs of me Exist
Music Written & Performed By Esslemont
Features on the EP 'Never Really, Never Never'.
2021

No Photographs of me Exist

No Photographs Of Me Exist

Light Up The Sky

Awesome sample from Cleo Sol and Lee Hazelwood helped made this track very easy. Nice vibes they say. Who says that anyway? Check out the originals here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IdLgRpa3W0 and Lee Hazelwood - Let's take a walk down Valhallavägen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxkRpW5hqfg

Big Sister

Stream 'Scooters' now: https://listen.hipdozer.com/scooters

Scooters is the second single from the project, and the song explores relationships, the passing of time and the arrival of winter. The self-produced song blends mellow hip-hop & melodic R&B, and it also features Bristol-based artist Slowe, who has received radio support on BBC Radio 1.

Harbours

Scooters

Stream

Webmoms & Ciaran Austin - Scooters (ft. Slowe)

Nick Di Marzo - vocals,guitar,synth,drum beat
Eugenio Lo Bello - Bass

The entire EP "Cyber Riot" where "All I Know About" is extracted from is available on bandcamp.
https://noeisnotunique.bandcamp.com
Produced using Free and Open Source software

All I know about

RESET MY PASSWORD

Growth

Our new single ‘David Bowie’ is an unapologetic, and heartfelt tribute to one of our favourite artists. The song also serves as it’s own Bowie trivia quiz, as it name checks so many Bowie songs. How many can you identify?

Future Dinosaurs for release

David Bowie

'General Cogs' is gritty, manic and unashamed. Written mostly in lockdown, it follows two imaginary army soldiers yearning for the life they had before, just as we found ourselves doing.

General Cogs

Misericorde, a song about self-serving leaders who deem themselves above the rules they set for others. Written a while ago though so of the zeitgeist we wanted to release it now!

Digital release on 11th Feb 2022,  part of the upcoming album, Universe Arrangements. 

Bledig, a mix of Trip Hop, Prog and Contemporary Jazz, which the trio describe as “Prog Hop”

Sax by Nick Gibson

Artwork By Richard Miles 'Steve Plays Flute' https://www.flickr.com/photos/richard--miles/

Mastered and drum recording by Paul Win-Stanley https://paulwinaudio.com/

Mixed and produced by Richard Brincklow

Bledig are:

Hannah Boulton: Vocals
James Purvis: Drums
Richard Brincklow: Keys

Misericorde

So feel the flat line
Face down in the time it took to fly
And speak a sure sound
Lining all your words with sugared ice

Well you live and you learn with
Every painful twist and  
Wasted turn

There’s no rhyme between the 
Time it takes to fly
And the time it takes to 
Clamber back to life

So feel the flat line
Smooth and steady
Nothing left to climb 
And change as you choose
If there’s something on your mind

After all this time...

Like a fever it hits
With a cold red mist
Bent bitter in the night
Caught up in a lie
Blood-shot
Hung up
On a said so
When you’re better off

No rhyme between the 
Time it takes to fly
And the time it takes to 
Clamber back to life

So feel the flat line
Set fire now the gale has blown behind
And sparks in your eyes
Shining with the tears you’d pushed aside

Oh, you live and you learn
With every painful twist
And wasted turn

Like a fever it hits
With cold red mist
Bent bitter in the night
Caught up in a lie
Blood-shot
Holding onto a said so
When you’re better off

Flatline

Happy Sad - single

"Reaching for the Song" is the first debut release of mine as a solo artist. The song itself is moving, personal, engaging and and described also as "uplifting' by some. It is open to interpretation with its meaning -as are any songs in my opinion as an artist and listener/fan of music generally - hoping to reach to listerners who connect with the notion that sometimes we have good intentions, try our hardest at something and yet are "falling" or feel we are failing despite our big heart's intentions.

Reaching For The Sun (Master).wav

'Ethiopia'. HyperFollow Preview Page (DistroKid): https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/benjaminbm/ethiopia

'Ethiopia', getting featured on Fresh On The Net - Fresh Faves - Batch 434: https://freshonthenet.co.uk/2022/02/faves434/

General Cogs

Four-Legged Fruit