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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 June 9th 2025: 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/batch573

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.

Full Inbox: Batch 573

Our moderators listened to every track we were sent this week and have picked their favourites for your listening pleasure this weekend:

Listening Post: Batch 573

Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out Listening Post 573 and tell us which tracks they liked best. Here, in alphabetical order, are our readers' top favourites. Our reviews are written by Fresh On The Net's Neil March and Sherry Sahayaraj - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves573

Fresh Faves: Batch 573

Remember Us?

Built around warped synths, pulsing rhythms, and ghostly textures, Hertz explores the tension between connection and distortion in a hyper-saturated world.

Hertz

Buy Hertz here

The first year at the University of Glamorgan, probably late 2002. I only attended 3 lectures or so my entire career, preferring instead to plumb the depths of my soul and examine my mind from both micro and macro viewpoints, like a man standing between 2 parallel mirrors. After doing something that tends to keep you awake for too long, then doing it again, again, & then again. A marathon. 3 days later and still no sleep, a spider absailed down the curtains in my Halls cell-like box room. For some reason this produced an intense few hours of nightmarish arachnids lurking on ceiliings, chasing me down corridors, webs thick across the common room. God knows what I looked like, tearing wild-eyed past the silent doored & slumbering student rooms. Eventually managing to wake Matt, Apprentice Green's drummer, multi-instrumentalist & all round good egg. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the spider invasion had not occurred & I had not, in fact, been whisked off as the Devil's plaything to the caverns of Hell. Even the original rappelling spider was actually a bit of fluff suspended on a thread of curtain material. Ah well. Stay in school kids. 

The song was written a year or so later, morphing through a few forms. Special mention goes to Brummy's loping bassline & Matt's guitar overdubs. All recreated here. I have no idea how I wrote the piano riff. Probably just mashed the keys until it sounded good. Much like I do now.

Apprentice Green

Nightspiders

‘Reverberator’ is a celebration of all the flair, fun, flamboyance, and the many excesses of the best decade in music history: the 1980s!

Written, performed, and produced by Hollywood Brown in his Ocean Drive Studios base, great care has been taken to really capture the essence of what made 80s music so great: catchy melodies, infectious grooves, sparkling synthesizers, and rip-roaring guitars - all played by hand and sung without the aid of autotune.

Original 80s instruments and studio gear have been used where possible, with appropriate alternatives used when needed.

Reverberator is the culmination of years worth of research by Hollywood, who has made it his mission to return to a simpler, better time.

Heartbreaker

The Snake

New track releasing on all plats may 20th

much love to the homie @vito for hopping on the track go check him out!

jreaper x vito -new day(same bullshit)

Let Them Know

'Hurricane Heart' is the third single from Amity’s debut EP, Bite Me!, the moving Royal Albert Hall-backed project from critically acclaimed, multi-award-winning 18-year-old singer songwriter Amity.

Showcasing Amity’s profound and hard hitting lyricism, 'Hurricane Heart’s gut punch is delivered by his distinctive soulful voice, which has drawn comparisons to Adele and Regina Spektor in The Guardian and to Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell and Tori Amos in ASBO Magazine’s ‘One To Watch’ feature.

Bite Me!

Hurricane Heart

Written by Alexandra Leaving
Produced by Jack O'Hea
Guitars by Morgan Rickman
Drums by Angus Mcintyre

Lyrics: 

I'm the cliche, doomsday, quit that job. 
I'm not ok on this clock
How dare you be real when everything's ironic
The Mad Hatter's tea is quite the tonic.

Can you beat The Wall?
Can you beat The Wall?

I'm kinda happy but I'm kinda broke, 
Trying to make my way in the big fat smoke. 
Dear the big boys, making noise, drop a key
in the wishing well of my fantasy. 

Can you beat The Wall?
Can you beat The Wall?

I'm the freeze frame, no shame, solve the riddle:
Who's right on the edge but from a town in the middle?
No I'm not sorry, I'm not done, 
Blow a big kiss, never miss, flex those guns

Can you beat The Wall?
Can you beat The Wall?
Can you beat The Wall?
Can you beat The Wall?

The Wall

“Taking Flight” is a heartfelt anthem about embracing change and finding strength in vulnerability. With soaring melodies and reflective lyrics, Carina Marie captures the bittersweet moment of letting go—whether of a person, a place, or a version of yourself—to step boldly into the unknown. The song weaves together gentle piano and lush harmonies to create a sense of motion, hope, and emotional release.

Carina’s voice, both intimate and powerful, guides listeners through a journey of self-discovery, inviting them to shed fear and reclaim their wings. “Taking Flight” isn’t just about escape—it’s about transformation, and the courage it takes to rise.

Taking flight_V3

Snuck in the back with a borrowed name,
Sneakers clean but the soul’s in flames,
Snap a pic with a plastic smile,
Actin’ like I’ve been here a while.

Posted that Benz like it’s mine to keep,
But I’m crashin’ on couches, barely sleep.
Mirror’s cracked, but I strike a pose,
Talkin’ champagne dreams in secondhand clothes.

Fake It ‘Til I Make It

Sketch For Faro

A heartfelt song about the need for a belief in love soldiering on, even when the world is a bin-fire

Soldiers

Is It Because Im A Woman? ALICE OFFLEY

WHITE GOODS - RADIO EDIT

Some spoken word to a broken beat, sub bass and samples. Experimental Electronic, Dub, Organic House

Tracked

Orbs of Light

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Harold Nono - "Faro" (BS067 - 2025)
https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/faro

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Harold Nono - "Sketch For Strings" (BS059 - 2023)
https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/track/sketch-for-strings

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Harold Nono - "We're Almost Home" (BS046 - 2020)
https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/were-almost-home

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Haq (N-qia & Harold Nono) - "Evaporator" (BS044 - 2019)
https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/evaporator

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"Ideeit" (BS032) by Harold Nono (BS032 - 2016)
https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ideeit

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Jikan Ga Nai (Harold Nono and Eric Cosentino) - "Plenty Time" (BS022 - 2013)
https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/plenty-time

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Haq (N-qia & Harold Nono)  - "Nocturnals" (BS020 - 2013)
https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/nocturnals

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Taub (Harold Nono & Me Raabenstein) - "The Wrong Path" (BS010 - 2010) 
https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-wrong-path

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Harold Nono/Hidekazu Wakabayashi - s/t (BS009 - 2009)
https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/harold-nono-hidekazu-wakabayashi

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Harold Nono - "To The River Lounge" (BS003 - 2007)
https://bearsuitrecords.bandcamp.com/album/to-the-river-lounge

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https://www.facebook.com/pages/harold-nono/129808567077779?ref=hl

https://haroldnono.bandcamp.com/

https://soundcloud.com/bearsuitrecords

https://soundcloud.com/haqpeople

email : nono.harold@gmail.com

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Harold Nono - "We're Almost Home" (BS048)

It's a collision of Neu!, John Barry, John Coltrane and My Bloody Valentine, which Joe Meek has collected up and put into one great melting pot.
[Monolith Cocktail]

The tracks swerve into curious realms, carrying static, opera and theremin in their wake. As a result, “We're Almost Home” seems intensely cinematic, with a sense of humour
[A Closer Listen]

What Nono delivers is a brain-bending sonic tempest, with ideas lifted from all corners of the planet.  If you’re curious to take a walk on the weird side, then this comes recommended.
[Aural Aggravation]

Brilliant stuff – off of the irrepressible Bearsuit Records. An excellent LP. Ever evolving is Harold Nono. Wonderful stuff!
[In-Tune]

A kooky, experimental music mix of electronica, synthwave, pop, jazz & rock with cinematic touches. An album that's genuinely different. Really fresh & unusual...
[D. Soulscorch - I Heart Noise]

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Haq - “Evaporator” (BS044)

60s spy theme sexiness merges with the avant-garde dreampop of a bewitched Stereolab playing hopscotch with Delia Derbyshire whilst sucking on the feedback of a JAMC lollipop. This album really is a beautiful work of aural magic and makes for quite a moving experience: maybe there is a God after all.
[Monolith Cocktail] 

It's the weird and wonderful world of Haq... Ballistic beats and floaty mellowness collide, and often, as they explore the space between The Cocteau Twins and the Prodigy and somehow, in their state of dementure, attempt to bridge it by fusion
[Aural Aggravation]

Of course, being Haq there’s always that possibility that things will go south and rattle your expectations and morph into something resembling Captain Beefheart or the Residents crossed with Faust and Einstürzende Neubauten on summer holiday at the beach! [A] challenging listen that encourages to drop the distractions and listen to what music can sound like when it doesn’t follow traditional linear song patterns
[It's Psychedelic Baby Magazine]

It’s a fascinating listen and it comes with the bonus of hope –  that sometimes connections which lead to fresh crops of creativity can still be found...
[Popoptica]

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Harold Nono - "Ideeit" (BS032) 

Absolutely gorgeous stuff! An excellent LP!
[Phil Vickery, In-Tune, BCFM]

Bearsuit mainstay Harold Nono returns – and once again, he’s come up trumps. Nono’s latest effort is as inventive as ever. An intriguing album that is – as you’d reasonably expect from Harold Nono – difficult to place, but a lot easier to dig
[Aural Aggravation]

[‘Tahiik’] a bit of a gem ghosted in shadowy noir trimmings and spy themed mosaics all presided over by brief moments of the kind of sinister edgy chill that recalls Budd and Barry
[The Sunday Experience]

All of these twelve tracks together make up a highly varied album, but it works very well. Nono has crafted an excellent album of moody, orchestral tunes
[Vital Weekly]

The tracks on this album are complex thematically, but yet melodic and accessible. Evoking different moods and textures Nono brings together a master work, worthy of any concert hall 
[Floorshime Zipper Boots]

An absolutely beautiful album, wonderfully orchestrated electronica punctuated by euphoric instrumentals and gorgeously downbeat string passages. An awesomely nuanced Nono masterpiece. 
[Gnomefoam]