Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 350 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 Chris Ingram - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves350

Fresh Faves: Batch 350

Janet

released 10th Jan 2020
Fierce Panda Records
https://orcd.co/jekyll_idwic

I Do What I Can

Breathe

Burden

Nic Chorus

Lonely Hearts dont have the time
broken wings will never fly
ticking minds stick to the past
I wish I could feel what love really is 
I'm just a bad romancer
too bad to see my chances
some say im falling for the wrong kind
I'm just a bad romancer
too bad to see my chances
falling in love with the feeling of falling in love 

Pete Verse 1

Long distance doodles, banana drama,
Crap tags, phat bags, me, myself and I,
Tree times goodbye.

Lonely pot noodles,a quiet diet,
Gold bands, cold hands, me, myself and I
Three times goodbye.

Walking best in show, dog hair mare,
Squashed bugs, flying mugs, me, myself and I
Three times goodbye.

Ready break glow, re-born sworn,
Empty frames, end games, me, myself and I
Three times goodbye.

Nic Chorus

I'm just a bad romancer
too bad to see my chances
some say im falling for the wrong kind
I'm just a bad romancer
too bad to see my chances
falling in love with the feeling of falling in love 

Pete Verse 2

That’s it:
The cashless commerce.
The blanket always too short.
The loose connexion.

To search behind the horizon.
To brush fallen leaves with four shoes
and in one’s mind to rub bare feet.
To let and rent hearts;
or in a room with shower and mirror,
in a hired car, bonnet facing the moon,
wherever innocence stops
and burns its programme,
the word in falsetto sounds
different and new each time.

Today, in front of a box office not yet open,
hand in hand crackled
the hangdog old man and the dainty old woman.
The film promised love.

Nic Chorus

Lonely Hearts dont have the time
broken wings will never fly
ticking minds stick to the past
I wish I could feel what love really is 
I'm just a bad romancer
too bad to see my chances
some say im falling for the wrong kind
I'm just a bad romancer
too bad to see my chances
falling in love with the feeling of falling in love

Wrong Kind

Fire On At Me - T.E.G


“I’m on my way home, I want to get back,
I know it feels good, and I don’t wanna leave”

Fire on at me if you don’t have more to say
Come and get it cos you’ve got nothing to stay
You and I both know that it don’t work this way
Put your gun down, I put mine down, put them away
We both got reasons but these reasons aren’t enough
It’s my vendetta and yours, you just had it rough
But things are changing and though I know it’s tough
Put your gun down, I put mine down, put them away

Here we are -  away from home
I close my eyes I visualise 
I wanna go home
Not on your own - but fighting solo
The end is near, I feel the fear
I wanna go home

We take our prisoners who just want their release
They say they’re sorry but we’re not easy to please
Their freedom’s ours and we’ll sort ‘em out with ease
Put your gun down, I put mine down, put them away
Any action will so make you pay the price
So no decision is without sacrifice
Just ‘cos I pity doesn’t mean I am nice
Put your gun down, I put mine down, put them away

Feel these tears, they’re filled with rage
Fell off my horse I’ve got back up
I wanna go home
Don’t pretend, that your not scared
This war right here’s been on years
I wanna go home

Don’t think you can stop me
I am trying and succeeding 
You cannot see me I’m invincible
And I stop stop wanna come home

Fire On At Me

M G Boulter and Samantha Whates have revisited their collaboration once more on their new EP, How to Read. Both prolific and respected songwriters in their own right the duo originally met in 2013 and soon produced ‘The Boatswain’s Manual’ (2014), a nautically flavoured EP drawing on their shared coastal back stories (Samantha grew up in Montrose on the east coast of Scotland and M G by the Thames on the Essex coast). Now, inspired by their love of all things books, the two songwriters have used their thematic approach to explore the wider human condition beyond the bookshop window. The EP collects songs which demonstrate both Whates and Boulter’s ability to write engaging, emotive and sometimes playful songs all framed by fingerpicked acoustic guitar and double bass arrangements.
 
Despite their busy schedules both artists grabbed time between projects, often in coffee shops in Southend on Sea, to write tracks such as Agatha Christie and the title track How to Read.
 
In collaboration with producer, multi-instrumentalist and arranger Douglas Whates ‘How to Read’ is due for release on 6 March 2020 on limited edition CD.
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releases March 6, 2020

MG Boulter & Samantha Whates - Agatha Christie

Sons And Daughters

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