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Christmas songs and the like are also not eligible for the Listening Post, although we will collect these into a playlist that will be published on 24 December.

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A tennis ball in a sock against the garage door
means your sister’s going to leave you alone for a change.

Phew.

Your dad’s watching cricket in a roomful of smoke,
curtains tight against the sun and you’re not allowed in either 
but what you don’t know is that it’s because he’s hung over. 
All you know is he’s scary.

Your mum’s singing Tammy Wynette in the kitchen 
but something in her voice and the song 
is telling you not to go in there just yet. 

There’s a rattle of a magpie; 
you don’t know it’s a magpie, 
it’s just a bird you don’t even really hear.

Holding Space dust in your mouth makes your tongue go sore 
but you do it because you don’t want anyone to know it’s there. 
Pour some more.

You hold on tight to the rough hips of the tree
because you’re balancing on an orange and red striped beach ball.
You admire your toes: you look like a circus girl. 

It’s Saturday and the sun’s gotta burst soon 
and skin cancer hasn’t been invented yet.
You’ve got six whole weeks 
before you have to go back:
you’ll be in the circus by then.  

You might marry Mickey Dolenz.
Or Pete Duel. 
You’ve already got the hat.

Space Dust

This being Gni's first official track is the first step of Gni in his musical journey. "Fake Love" which I would describe as a the kind of song you would want to play and just vibe to draws it's sound from atmospheric sounds and afrobeats drums with creative mixing.

Fake Love

New album from Liverpool Singer Songwriter "John Jenkins"

003 - The Last Train From Baltimore (MASTER Inc ISRC)

Navy Morning

Follow Lexie https://linktr.ee/LexieCarroll
Stream the track: https://lnk.to/werenotlonelyanymore

Written by Alex Carroll (Copyright). Produced and Mixed by Dan Swift. Mastered by Stuart Hawkes

I had this image in my head of a very movie-like scene of meeting someone at a party you don’t want to be at with people you don’t like and then heading outside to chat under the stars where it's quieter but still with the distant sounds of the party fading in and out of the background. It's about connecting with someone and it just being really easy to talk to them even though you've only just met. It's very exciting because you know there could be something really special happening and you don't have to be lonely anymore.

we're not lonely anymore

oh I met you in a room I didn't wanna be in
but nor did you, you took me out to the garden
and I didn't know why the hell you knew my name
but it sounds quite nice when you say it
won't you say it again
won't you say it again
but we, we talk for hours about the movies you like
and how you wish you could go back to a different time
when things were fine
cause it was so easy back then
and I would agree, oh I would agree

but we, no we're not lonely anymore
at least we don't have to because I don't know you but I know
we're getting along quite nicely

so I told you about my friends and how I don't know where they went
they took me out on a night I thought that I would regret
but now you're here I'm kinda glad we met
and you said that you're just as glad as me
I guess you're just as mad as me

but we, no we're not lonely anymore
at least we don't have to because I don't know you but I know
we're getting along quite nicely

but now I'm safe in your arms I don't care where we are
oh I think I'm in love no I can't trust my heart
but it feels like we could be anything

cause we're not lonely anymore
at least we don't have to because I don't know you but I know
we're getting along quite nicely

we're not lonely anymore

For Ben VanderHart, lead singer of Chattanooga band Telemonster, the troughs of life started a few years before COVID-19. In the Fall of 2018, VanderHart left a cushy corporate job with a steady income to found Yellow Racket Records and release Telemonster’s most recent full-length album, Introspecter, Pt. 1. Within a year, he was working as a farm hand in North Georgia, then scrubbing toilets as a church janitor, then stuffing envelopes and sending out birthday emails to members of a trucking association. And things only got harder from there.

“Your Life Begins Today” is the outcome of that process. At just under four minutes, this concise pop song is a deliberate effort to find joy and hope in a life that is fraught with disappointment and hardship. Over the last year and a half, it seems like something almost everyone can relate to.

Your Life Begins Today

To Kill A God

Weekend Punks debut single. Written and recorded between Southampton (UK) and Reykjavik (Iceland), Weekend Punks play Surf Pop, but with relatively little experience of surf or sun. Reverb on everything, distortion on most things, and a nostalgia for places and times never visited.

Weekend Punks EP

Backseat Driver

Weekend Punks - Backseat Driver

Lived

Wilcen & Psicell - Buried Secrets

Labels

Labels (feat. Tiana Major9 & Kofi Stone)

Next Live Date London Old Blue Last 17th Nov 2021

WEAVING STRANDS OF INDIE, ROCK AND POST-PUNK INTO ONE JUGGERNAUT TRACK


“Punchy, guitar driven songwriting with shades of Foals angular energy, we're also hearing a dose of B-Town promise in their songwriting” - Clash Magazine

“A big indie banger” - Dork

"Addictive indie anthem" - Record Of The Day

"A soaring indie rock upheaval full of feverish energy and raw, radiant passion" - Atwood Magazine

"Continuing to generate buzz" - CLOUT


Rising anthemic indie quartet FLOWVERS have shared their new single 'Flowers' - listen here. 

A slow burner that builds up to an epic crescendo, the new single weaves strands of indie, rock and post-punk to create a colossal four minutes much akin to the sound of Talking Heads meeting Kings Of Leon in their more intricate moments. 

Explaining the track in more detail, the band elaborate, "'Flowers' combines all elements of FLOWVERS. past, present, and future. Weaving between guitar subtilty and sudden impact-wall of sound, with our intention being to create our most interesting and progressive track to date. The reoccurring critique of ‘not liking the way the flowers are going/ things are going’ only solidifies the emotions found in previous single ‘Far Away’."

Another juggernaut track from the four-piece, it follows on from previous meteoric single 'Far Away'. A song that oozes with the same frenetic energy once present during the 2012 B-Town indie scene, the mammoth single was praised by Clash Magazine, Dork, Record Of The Day, Atwood Magazineand CLOUT to name but a few.

Whilst many bands are still finding their feet in a post-pandemic music industry landscape, FLOWVERS have taken it in their stride, using lockdown to develop their sound, which has since presented them with some fruitful opportunities. Earlier this year the Portsmouth band appeared on Scruff Of The Neck TV on Twitch - as part of a mammoth weekender celebrating new bands from up and down the country - and released of their Old Chapel Demos EP, which included key single 'When It Comes To It' being added to the X-POSURE List on Radio X.

This summer they also played at the iconic Isle of Wight Festival, appearing on the This Feeling stage, sold out shows on a headline tour around the UK, had their music played on Soccer AM and appeared in the studio at talkSPORT Radio for an interview.  

FLOWVERS' growing hook-laden sound has seen them become regulars on BBC Introducing in the Solent as well as garnering support across the board on music blogs. They've amassed over one million streams on Spotify after featuring on their New Music Friday and Hot New Bands playlists, whilst live they have played shows with the likes of Swim Deep, JAWS, Black Honey, Another Sky and Coach Party.

Flowers

Flowers by FLOWVERS

Out Of My Hands

A personal homage to Greta.

And about being schooled by someone who bunks off school to not respect their  “elders”.

It’s a love song.

The Greta video is available here:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU4l57Yyx3Y

Greta

GRETA

On A Hill, In The Hall

'Seventeen' from the album 'Alone On A Hill'

Seventeen

From the 14th album ‘Ideas Above Our Station’

Ideas Above Our Station

Stranglehold

Spoken word song, about a girl explaining the decision she makes to her unborn child

Unborn Child

Black Dog

Gates

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