Any artist is welcome to send us a 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 8th July: from midday 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/batch332

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. You will be able to resubmit the track in future.

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Cognitive Behaviour

"We met that summer with the heat on the rise... we said hello and never said goodbye"

Break Through The Sky EP

Heat

Sonoride on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5XgtJFg6xczr2lEAv5m5kk?si=U9nuGvhhS6mbCmyG7Mr2Tg
Direct link (opens up the Spotify application directly, copy and paste in the browser):   spotify:artist:5XgtJFg6xczr2lEAv5m5kk

Vagabond Avenue 2018

Debut track from independent UK Artist MOCHUDI

RAIN

Never Tried A Cigarette

Who Do You Love is about love.  Lasting love as the foundation, weathered by storms with the cracks starting to show. But love is still there. It's roots running deep.

Who Do You Love

The debut single from British alternative rock five piece HIGHGARDEN, showcasing the band's signature guitar-saturated rock sound, flecked with poppy choruses and heavy riffs in equal measure, before exploding into a  catastrophic odd-time-signature instrumental outro.  

Written by Highgarden
Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Will Freed

Release date 22.06.2019

Apex (Single)

Composta em Lisboa, onde o músico reside, a faixa foi gravada em Los Angeles pelo produtor Tom Biller – que tem no currículo artistas como Elliott Smith, Fiona Apple, Sean Lennon, Karen O, Warpaint e Kanye West, entre outros. A parceria resultou em uma canção agradável aos ouvidos atentos à produção contemporânea. 

O ambiente musical de Higher Ground é uma evolução natural daquilo que MOMO. apresentou em seu último disco (Voá, de 2017, produzido por Marcelo Camelo), com um aspecto mais solar do que neste. A nova música actualiza o legado da bossa nova, que ganha timbres electrónicos e camadas de sintetizadores, favorecendo a construção utópica que a letra propõe – “Want to reach higher ground/ In a spiritual world/ There can be no nation”.

Higher Ground chega acompanhado de um lyric video, com distribuição do selo LAB 344. Nos EUA,  será editado pela Yellow Racket Records.

Higher Ground

Total Bike Forever is an adventure from London to Tokyo by bicycle in search for the golden muse and a quest to make electronic music with the people we met along the way. 

This track features recordings from a group of traditional musicians at the university of Kyushu in Fukuoka (Japan) as well as a choir in Kathmandu (Nepal).

Chris Leon (Fresh On The Net): 
"Kyushu is a proper deep house track filled with oriental sounds and flutes. The title of the track exposes the influences and place where it was created. The flute sounds and layered, wordless voices remind me of pictures of Japanese gardens, which must be a very special experience to walk trough. I can’t wait to hear more songs of their journey."

Lulibo Makoboka (Stereofox)
"One of the aspects which caught my attention is the fact that Total Bike Forever's "Kyushu" beautifully blurs the lines of genre by virtue of the various sounds incorporated in here. The journey like progression also provides the track with a distinctive personal touch.

If you enjoyed the works on Bonobo's Migration album, this is for you!"

Kyushu

Where have you been?

The New Explosion

A song about building up a relationship with a parent after a lot of troubled years

Reaching Out

EP#2 - I Wouldn't Worry About It - out 25.07.2019
Teddy on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2xAM5HR
EIS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheEasterIsl...

"Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster" - Teddy Roosevelt

Taken from their forthcoming second EP I Wouldn't Worry About It, Teddy is three-and-a-half minutes of frenetic indie pop that celebrates the sheer joie-de-vivre of the eponymous president, his passion and his desire to make the most of life.

Recorded, mixed and mastered at Glasshouse Studios, Cumnor by Jamie Hyatt.

℗ Easter Island Statues 2019
© Easter Island Statues 2019
theeasterislandstatues@gmail.com
www.theeasterislandstatues.com

Teddy

After first introducing himself to us with his beautifully composed debut EP ‘You Give’ in 2015, Theo Bard has spent the intervening years pushing his music further into electronic realms than ever before. Inspired by a new generation of songwriters augmenting their music with electronic sounds, he has developed a unique voice as both producer and songwriter and has returned to reveal his new brand of dark, experimental pop. 

With a thunderous opening, new single ‘Forget’ is a haunting exploration of lost love that demonstrates Bard’s artistic prowess. Eerie synths and melancholic lyrics portray a sentiment that seethes with sincerity. Though distorted vocals are often devoid of expression, Bard injects them with the depth of emotion you’d expect from a song that laments the realisation that an ex has well and truly moved on. The processed effects only work to heighten the track’s unnerving atmosphere and perfectly complement the experimental instrumental. The sonic space that would typically be occupied by traditional snares and drums is filled with inventive alternatives (sampled from ice and snow), making Bard’s creative intention clear as every element of ‘Forget’ strives to standout. 

Elaborating on his new release, he explains, “‘Forget’ is a dark, raw confessional about a traumatic experience. I was still in love with my ex-girlfriend when a big group of our friends were going away on holiday together. I wanted to be part of it. She was going to be there with her new man, but I didn't want to miss out and anyway, there were lots of other people I could hang out with. I could give them a wide berth and it would be fine, right? One night I woke to the unmistakable sound of their voices coming through the wall. I tried to cover my ears, wanting more than anything to 'unhear' the sound, but it was too late. Completely upset and spun out, I left the next morning, returning to London as fast as I could. All I wanted was to forget what I'd heard and what it meant. At the time, I was pushing my music in the direction of a new sound, telling people my new music was 'melancholic electronic' and I realised how perfect the story was for the new vibe. Once I had the concept of the song in my head it came out so easily.”

More from Theo Bard
Official webpage: www.theobard.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5agEEmWLm4t3O6Ra6pkMm6
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theobardmusic/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theobard/

Inkus

Forget

Theo Bard - Forget

Pretty People

Recorded at Circa 16 Recording Studios in Dumfries Scotland. The new single from Dumfries band, Tiderays.

Tiderays - Parallel - Eq030719 96k 24b

Made in the improvisation of the week by projet XY

Souffle Chaud

Lost Like Alice - Make It Out

A Low Key Affair EP

Old Age Can't Come Too Soon

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