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 24th July: 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/batch498

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 498

02 Mind Is Wandering

5 Years From Now - Bad Debt from their upcoming album Hakem

5 Years From Now - Bad Debt

Always Trouble

We All Got Friends (We All Got Enemies) is out now!

Written by AJ Smith, Dru Marshall, and Jason Lane
Produced by AJ Smith
Mixed by Jonathan Garcia
Mastered by John Naclerio

Free Download

We All Got Friends

Acceptance and making the most of the time we have.

Bittersweet Emotion

Wildflowers

An anthemic rock song from Charlie and the Fox , hopefully this one will stay in your head , you'll be singing it to yourself whilst shopping in the supermarket !
Our next song Breathe will be out on 5th July , a blend of alt rock and in a strange way country . Once again we thank you for all your support , it keeps us going !

Keep The Fire Burning

Keep The Fire Burning ( Charlie and the Fox )

Young Child

Clearly

CATCH A VIBE!!

Prepare for a hard-hitting dose of raw talent with "Fairly Odd Flow" by Scooter La Strange. This gritty and relentless hip-hop track showcases Scooter La Strange's commanding presence and lyrical prowess.

Fairly Odd Flow was written by Scooter La Strange and the beat was produced by TyDavid - https://youtube.com/@tydavid8372 all rights reserved 
Genre: Hip-Hop, Rap

Fairly Odd Flow

‘The Goat’, from the OMEN EP from debdepan. Available on all platforms from 25th July 2023 on Bamala Newtown, through Danmark Music Group distribution

The Goat

Stalking in the night I don't know what to do
Looking through the window I am waving at you
Then you see me and I can feel all that you feel
You know it's not the first time I'm snooping around you
Don't be scared in the night
I want you to stay
Walking in your tights I don't know if it is right
I'm sure we've got so much to share together tonight
Why you're always slipping through the hands of your dreams
Let me have a look in your room, where is your bed now
Don't be scared in the night
I want you to stay
Don't you know I want to come in come in
Just because you are too fine
So warm, too fine
So warm, too
Count the days 'till my conviction life behind bars
Russell didn't bank on this when he wrote my stars
Oh maybe should I learn to keep my love in my pants
Or not because within the stalker always around you
Don't be scared in the night
I want you to stay with me baby
Don't you know I want to come in come in
Just because you are too fine
I'm walking in your tights
I don't know if it's right
I'm sure that we have so much
To share together tonight

Bass : Frédéric Van Linden @mokeit 
All other instruments & vocals : Christophe

Baby, I'm a Stalker

Baby, I’m a Stalker

Isn’t communication sexy? 80’s synths, catchy 90’s R&B melodys and contemporary vocals like you’ve never heard before - aimate’s debut single, please, entices the audience to listen, feel and sing. For fans of Prince, Nao, Destiny's Child an Hall & Oates. This song is about being desperate for your current lover to talk to you about how they’re feeling instead of running away. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t but that’s why you have friends to vent to! Perfect for driving into the sunset with your bestie!

please

‘Shot You Down’ is a pop, edgy ballad full of dark sounds that could become the theme tune for the next James Bond Movie!

It follows the story of being in an unhealthy relationship and the strength it can take to walk away. Written by Chloey Rose and produced by Aron Bicskey, the track builds from smoky late night piano atmospheres to become a powerful anthem for getting up again once you’ve been cut down, with a nod to Nancy Sinatra’s classic track ‘Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)’.

Shot You Down

New single release from The Filthy Tongues

In These Dark Places

The Filthy Tongues: In These Dark Places (Radio Edit)

‘Keep Running’ is a song about freedom, embracing life and having fun with your friends. It was written during a half hr window as I was waiting to get picked up to go to a festival. I picked up my guitar and the song just flowed out of me! I have since played it live countless times & it’s become what I like to call, a HIPPY ANTHEM! It’s the song everyone knows all the words to at my gigs, the song everyone asks for round the fire at gatherings and festivals. It’s become my most defining song. ‘Keep Running’ is the perfect accompaniment to your road trips, afterparty jam sessions & sunny days in the park. It’ll remind you why summer + mates = bliss :)

Keep Running

A.W.D.L (Artist With Dual Lang

Don't Mind Me

Keep your past on the right side of history.
Don’t get left leaving it to chance.
Sitting on the fence can be so uncomfortable
but who doesn’t like to lead a merry dance?

And you might think you're in Heaven
but you might find that it is Hell.
Just as well you didn’t waste a lifetime.
Just as well you didn’t choose to go.

Humble pie gives you indigestion.
If you have a cake you want to eat it too.
When you make a bed you always want to lie in it
and it might seem nice with someone next to you

and then you might think that you have gone to Heaven
but you might find yourself in Hell.
Just as well we can’t read the future.
Just as well we don’t have a clue.

Big questions leave you sinking
to the sleep of salty murky seas.
I hope you find the answer.
I only know it isn’t me.

Sometimes things that are reflected
seem clearer than the ones that you can see.
Every single mirror can show who you might have been
and it only takes two to reach infinity.

And you may think you’ve found your way to Heaven
and feel it’s unfair when it turns into Hell.
Maybe you won’t ever know the reason
and maybe that is just as well.

You might think you’re in Heaven.

You Might Think You're In Heaven

Silver Silver’s second single release - Palace. The song was written, recorded and mixed by Matt in his home studio Coconut Hill. Released on August 1st 2023 - Palace is another atmospheric release, with haunting, reverb soaked vocals, delayed guitars and syncopated rhythms.

Palace

My suggested songs to go by are any of the following:

- Summer of Seventeen
- Keep The Light On
- Need You Tonight
- Thinking About You

THINKING ABOUT YOU

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