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 14th February: 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/batch436

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 436

Bira

Love is a Colour

Driving Myself Home

Two Crows

Spindrift

Nannie Dee

Spindrift - 02 Nannie Dee

Track 6 of the Album soundcloud.com/user-461764443/sets/the-firm-dark-orchestral-suite

The Firm “Ascaridida “ hired a new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) soon after the Board of Directors has been decimated by the Stigma Virus. Gerald Rivian is a former military commander who did fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. He also has a degree in software engineering specialized in video games as well as a Master of Business Administration (MBA). He is known to be evil and relentless. He was mandated by the CEO of the Firm Ascaridida to start a new artificial intelligence division with the goal of creating robots that would replace all the politicians in the world that are either populist, stupid or ignorant. Apparently, the market is enormous in most country of the world and could create billions of dollars of new revenues. Gerald Rivian is known to never give up and he is ready for the challenge even if there could be numerous collateral damages such as the end of all populist political parties. Strangely, he knew every members of the Board of Directors before the decimation. Could it be that Gerald Rivian planned this decimation because they were all members of the Depublican Party?

“This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

Music & Production: Syrel
Photography: Syrel ("Geralt of Rivia", which kindly let Syrel do this portrait, is the fictional character and protagonist of The Witcher video game. The portrait was shot in Kraków on 2016)

The Firm

The New Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Calling My Name

Press Preview of upcoming single BRIGID by Jo Beth Young
Release Date: 4th February 2022
ISRC: UKNX62200001
Label: Wildness Rising Records
Publisher: Speegra

LYRICS
BRIGID  (Lyrics) 


And I was drawing, drowning, drowning
when you fell. 

I knew you were hiding, 
wanting something as well. 

Call me, when you need me
Then drop me down
When I’m not around. 

And I was flying, climbing, trying so hard. 
Didn’t know you would be higher, harder 
further than I could climb. 

Couldn’t beam up to you darling. 

Will you come back for me?
(Coming back for me)
Will you be coming back for me?

Coz I gave myself away. 
We do it every day.
I gave myself away. 
We do it every day. 

Give me February
Yes I’m ready
February Nights. 
February, February
February Light. 
February February, February 
Light. 

Call me when you need me.

February Light
February Light. 







Written by Jo Beth Young copyright 2021

Brigid (Single)

Brigid

Sally

Oli Mortham - spoken word, guitar, bass guitar, drum programming, synths, recording, mixing

Charlotte Mortham - spoken word

Lyrics:

Very intense rain falls in a particular place and land can't take it away

Change is coming
Change is coming
Rain is coming
Rainfall is coming
Whether you want it or not

The only sensible thing to do is hit the emergency break
Change is coming

Rainmaking

This is a song I wrote about love between two people who cannot be together because of fear of change. It is an acoustic guitar track with a catchy strumming pattern and a chorus that will possible be stuck in your head the rest of the day. This is my first public release of many songs I write. I hope you enjoy.

Come Out Come Out

New single from Change the Letter. "Rosemary Hill" available to stream & download on all major digital platforms from February 20th 2022.

Rosemary Hill

On 18th Feb electronic composer and producer Aaron Graham drops his brand new track 'Bergamo'.

Graham says "Some of the field recordings for that song are from a time I was travelling in Europe with an old project and dreaming of being back at home."

"I saw signs for Bergamo and just remembered the scenery being incredibly beautiful" Graham continues. "So when it came to putting those recordings in a song those emotions really informed the way the track felt."

Aaron Graham has journeyed as a composer, session musician, band member and producer. His music is for anyone who wants to veer slightly/steeply off the beaten track - music that has rhythm at its soul and is swirling with melody and chaos. 

“I've always tried to make music that if I heard it for the first time it would inspire me" says the resident of Faversham, Kent. 

"Taking a mixture of field recordings, live playing and programming it into  a blend of different styles and techniques which together hopefully make something resembling unique and listenable!”

We think Aaron's music is totally unique and beautifully listenable and we hope you do to!

BERGAMO backed with JÜRGEN is out on 18th February.

Bergamo

THIS SONG IS FOR WHEN YOU LOVE SOMEONE BUT YOU NEVER WANNA SEE THEM AGAIN

(Co-Written with Blass Rodriguez)

CALL ME IM LOST

A fun track about me settling down and knocking back gals from the past that didn't want to know back in the day.

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confused

Old Times

Dig Deep, Move Out

Early Morning Rain

Beaming is a collection of songs shaped from a year of uncertainty and delivered by  songwriter Jon Wilder (aka Boom Years) with an anxious spirit.  "Everybody's trying to make sense of our current situation and how our past has led to the madness that surrounds us.  Finding joy and light right now seems impossible, but I'm reminded daily through the actions of protesters, charity of neighbors and love of friends that hope isn't lost."  These songs mark a turning point for Boom Years, coming from personal events rather than narrative story telling, details gleaned from months of job loss, family strife, dogs in surgery and a move to Portland where the noise of riots and police sirens found their way into the background of songs.  "We'll persist and we'll endure," Jon says, "I'm just trying to keep smiling."

Follow Down

Parallel

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