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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.

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Distant Life EP

Hi/Lo

Sweet

https://instagram.com/wearedancelessons
dancetodancelessons@gmail.com
Written by Dance Lessons
Produced by Ann
Mixed by Andrew Maury

Wet Batteries

Sweet Memories

Produced by @insightfulone
Piano by @reubenjamesmusic
Bass by @carrtoons
Guitar by Luigie Nuñez
Additional Bass by Louis van der Westhuizen 
Strings by Marianne Haynes 
Mixed by Lavar Bullard
Mastered by @engineearz
Additional Vocal Engineering by @lindenjay

Teleport

Slow

Gold Spectacles - Social Graces

How Did We Get Here is a conversation about the relationship between music and mental health - a conversation via song and interview between me, musicians, mental health charities and music professionals.

Written by Lizzy Hardingham, produced by Tom A. Wright at Powered Flight Music, mastered by Nick Cooke, cover artwork by Elle Kydd.

Lizzy Hardingham - vocals and guitars
Izzy Baker - strings
Lukas Drinkwater - upright and electric bass
Katriona Gilmore - mandolin and backing vocals
Jamie Roberts - backing vocals
Tom Wright - drums and guitars

Interviews from Katy Rose Bennett, Noel Dashwood, Lukas Drinkwater, Blair Dunlop, Luke Jackson, Nancy Kerr, Ruth Lyon, Julie Matthews, and Tom Ryder.

The Road

Crimestopping (Radio Edit)

Semi Nude

Holysseus Fly, vocalist and pianist from award winning Ishmael Ensemble, steps out as a solo artist for the first time with her debut single Marigold. Detailing the struggle to find her creative identity after surviving cancer, Holysseus Fly’s raw vocal boldly tells a story of hope against a backdrop of dark minimal textures. 

Already known for her evocative performances, Marigold holds the listener in a way few vocalists can, a true statement of intent from an artist with a big future. Produced with Rob Pemberton (The Staves) and mixed by Iain Berryman (Wolf Alice, Beabadoobe, Florence & The Machine).

“Marigold flowers are for my family and I, a symbol of hope. I used them to write the song in March 2021 when I was struggling with PTSD following cancer scans I was having. Marigold describes how my relationship with my creativity and my cancer journey are so entwined, I was fearful of calls from the hospital and that I had lost my creativity. Marigold is about how I needed to realise the truth that I was alive and well - and if I picked up the phone and leant my ear to my creativity - I would realise that it was alive and well too. It had never left, it was just asleep.”

Written by Holysseus Fly
Produced by Holysseus Fly + Rob Pemberton 
Mixed by Iain Berryman
Mastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis Mastering

Artwork credits:
Photo + editing by Giulia Spadafora
MUA Izzy Grigsby
Concept by Holysseus Fly

Marigold

"The ouroboros is an ancient symbol of a snake or serpent eating its own tail, variously signifying infinity and the cycle of birth and death." - dictionary.com

This album is for my son Jasper Myhill and in memory of my father John Myhill.

Cinematic Inspired I - Ouroboros

Ouroboros

Harriet Bradshaw

Blue Kisses

It's time the Russians left Ukraine and went home

Slava Ukraini

Keeps Getting Better Mp3

Wave after wave, and we’re falling apart
Paid every gain with a hope in my heart
The erupting
Never never force into nothing

On and on we save and we save
Save and we save
Sail in a cave
We sail where the wind is just taking
Us in circles of our own making

Wave after wave, and we’re falling apart
Paid every gain with a hope in my heart
The erupting
Never never force into nothing

Now I see the truest life
Is when I hold you near me
Dearly, you
Everything comes clear, it’s true
Embrace the lot that you
Done grew with dew from a catalyst

Wave after wave, and we’re falling apart
Paid every gain with a hope in my heart
The erupting
Never never force into nothing

On and on we save and we save
Save and we save
Sail in a cave
We sail where the wind is just taking
Us in circles of our own making

Listen to the song in your head
It’s the only thing you’ll have
When you are dead

Wave after wave, and we’re falling apart
Paid every gain with a hope in my heart
The erupting
Never never force into nothing

Never forced into
No one forced you
No one forced you
credits

Not Ants

SAIL IN A CAVE

Write Off

flakebelly // life is such a beautiful thing

https://songwhip.com/flakebelly/behaviours
Buy now on Bandcamp: https://flakebelly.bandcamp.com/album/behaviours

My advice to a new soul

(P) 2022 flakebelly - all rights reserved
(C) 2022 flakebelly - all rights reserved

https://linktr.ee/flakebelly

Behaviours

Life is Such a Beautiful Thing

Buy E.P.

Life Is Such A Beautiful Thing

Born in the basement of our shop front converted flat 477 AKA BEACH HQ, Zebras Flying is a freshly baked loaf of indie rock served up from our gentle hands to your kind earmouths. It is as direct as it is abstract, as simple as it is nonsensical and above all, the sound of two friends rocking out in their living room and singing about zebras flying and geese turning into handheld devices. Finished last week and released this week, this track has something for the whole family to enjoy! Preach the Beach xxx

Zebras Flying Across The Beach

Available to purchase here: https://seadogmusic.bandcamp.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/cabin-fever-blues/1436207300

Seadog - Shell Shocked

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