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 556

‘Effboy’ features a relentless acoustic guitar and heavy beats accented by rolling sub-bass underpin the track. It examines how ‘everyday’ misogyny provides a cover and permission for the kind of deep misogyny that leads men to hurt and assault and exploit and coerce women.

Effboy

Oh Just Go

Echoes of a licentious night out results in a synesthesial affair

Disco

Show & Tell

Should I Lie is out 8 November 2024 - download and stream here: https://daay.ffm.to/shouldilie

For more visit 
https://www.daay.co.uk/

Credits:
Music by DAAY
Lyrics by Alex Barty-King

Alex Barty-King
Nicholas Wemyss
Melody Wayfare
Jonathan Woods
Euan McGinty
Max Mason

Produced by DAAY
Engineered by Alex McArthur
Recorded at Ghost Town Sound and Alex's room
Mastered by Green Door Studio

Single artwork by Jonathan Woods
@abstract.relation

℗ © 2024 Yada Recordings 

Lyrics:

Honour it
Battle it
Wrestle it
Organise
Cuddle it
Come around
Settle down

I'll go to hell and back
Just to make you mad
That's the kind of man I am
Always got your back

Do you like holding hands
Squeeze it tight that's romance
Hide away, from myself
Or should I, let it out?

Or should I lie...

Peddle it
Bury it
Smother it
Let it lie
Dig it up
Shake it off
Put it down

I am a modern man
I'm in to wizardry
But I have plastic hands
Look up can't you see

There's a place, and a time
See you there, love of mine
Hideaway, from myself
Or should I, let it out

Or should I lie...

Should I Lie

Hitting Different

Overstimulated

A gentle song created from the simplest of elements, guitar, melodica and the beautiful voice of Alice Hale aka With Sun.

Release date: Friday 31st January
Available through Bandcamp and all major streaming platforms

I Can't Look Up

‘Ambition Is Your Friend’ is the fourth single to be taken from the upcoming twelve track album ‘Ticking Haze’ landing in March 2025. It was a firm favourite at a recent Bandcamp listening party - jangling guitars likened to R.E.M at their catchiest, soaring layered vocals, and lyrics that encourage ambition as a quality we can all chase if we choose to.

Ambition is Your Friend

"Instand Banger" - John Kennedy, Radio X
Pre-Save https://artists.landr.com/people
Released 3rd Fab 2025

People

Recorded with Don Antonio at Crinale Studio, Italy

Dean Owens: Burn It All

No Promise

Complicated Mathematics

Release date: 14/2/25

Written, performed, recorded & mixed by Samuel Robinson

Mastered by John Elleson-Hartley @ https://www.musiklab.co.uk/

Lyrics:

Give us a quote, before you make it
This time we’re listening, this time we’ll fake it
Your Nan is famous, you could be too
Just give us something, we’ll make a martyr out of you

Hello Mr. Bullet, hello Mrs. Bomb
No need to tell me where you come from
Dead souls sign their name on your shell
Ironic it’s the living who are burning in hell

Nobody told me self defence
Meant carpet bombing kids in tents

Same war crime, different headline

THERE. IS. NO. RED. LINE.

One man’s hostage is another man’s prisoner
I don’t understand, I think I need an interpreter

Hey Siri, what’s ethnic cleansing?

Look at those smiles
Look where they live
Can’t blame a child
For what Dad did
Two sides to every genocide
Let’s take a look at the best bits, shall we?

THERE. IS. NO. RED. LINE.

THERE IS NO RED LINE

Invade Us

Second single release from the forthcoming new album.  An infectiously catchy slice of indie folk noir pop!

Twine

All That I Want

Debut single "Nothing" releases 5/2/25 on all streaming platforms.

Nothing

A Joyful jaunty handpan tune evoking the joy of a sunny May afternoon. This tune bounces through melodic shifts and different time signatures to create a fun little celebration of spring! 

Spring Hope

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Listening Post: Batch 556

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