Tobi's Fresh Net Favs 2021

Any artist is welcome to send us a track via freshonthenet.co.uk anytime between Monday lunchtime and Thursday morning (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 8 March: 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/batch398

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 that have been previously submitted and tracks from banned artists will also be removed.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 398

Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 398 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 Andy Page - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves398

Fresh Faves: Batch 398

Musicians in Residence

Feel It Coming On

That Dress (Radio Edit)

Out There

Darling, Home

Umbrella Cover acoustique

This song was inspired by the beautiful tree in the Drying Green Garden in Greenock, part of the Scotland-wide Dandelion project of Unexpected Gardens. The tree looks as is it has decided to sit down and brought back a book of the same name that I read as a child.

The - Tree - That - Sat - Down

From the debut album Mulled by Dopey Monkey.

Martin Lee Thomson (euphonium) and Danielle Price (tuba).

Recorded by Garry Boyle at Slate Room Studios.

Artwork by Irene Blaze Cameron.

Mulled 09 - Mulled

IOWYB - I ONCE WAS YOUR BOY

Lyrics

I fall back into my teens
Whenever I get close but

You don’t feel like home
To me anymore
You don’t feel like home
But you did once and if time stood still

I’d wait for hours for a glimpse of those child like chills
But all the things i’ve said move further from my mouth

You don’t feel like home
To me anymore
You don’t feel like home
When I fall backwards

You’re no more than births and funerals
You’re no more than all I’ve been
Where there once was grudge there’s now peace and a sense of end
I’ll mourn your gradual death but cherish every breath

You don’t feel like home
To me anymore
You don’t feel like home
When I fall backwards
You don’t feel like home
To me any more
You don’t feel like home
But you did once

You Don't Feel Like Home

I wrote this song after reading the book "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison. At the time I was also listening to Paul Simon's "Graceland" album a lot and wanted to try and recreate the sense of community and joyfulness that I heard on that album.

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Roots Of Rhythm (Original)

Final Night (Edit)

Schrodinger's Heart

damnthatscrazy

Ave Life

Helly Hansen 4

The YLA Sessions

Jonas Carping | Vocals, Guitar
Sigrid Carping | Vocals

words & music by Jonas Carping
Produced by Amir Aly
Cover Artwork by Marco Padoan

Website info:
https://www.jonascarping.com/the-yla-sessions.html

The YLA Sessions

Spotify

Moonlight Parade

Pivotal Orbit

Arizona

Look what happened when Rope Store got back in the studio in 2020.

Because 2020's been a very 'different' year, this is a very different Rope Store!

Written, played & sung by Jason & Gemma.

Recorded, mixed & mastered at The Crunch, UK.

Isabella

Two brothers versus the machines. Clusters of Eyes debuted at Smugglers Festival 2018 and have since been inhabiting coastal Kent’s subterranean network of tunnels, honing their set of gritty electronica and robot-rock.

This latest track features guest vocals from Troy of punk/hardcore band The Long Knives.

Imagery of a dystopian post-Covid, post-Brexit landscape is set to an irrepressible groove - inspired in equal parts by The Fall’s ‘Blindness’ and Death In Vegas’ ‘Aisha’.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/QaII3ePbDtc

This Is Transformation (feat. Troy)

Guide to Growing

Baked Beans

Hi we are Layer Cake – the band you didn’t see coming like that dollop of tomato sauce in Paul Kelly’s gravy recipe.

Our debut self titled EP released in 2019 was compared (by oh so many) to pop rock favourites such as The Strokes, Vampire Weekend and The Beatles – however you can compare us to whoever you like, as long as they are incredibly more successful than us and we can live vicariously through an over fluffed complimentary comparison.

Layer Cake’s return to glory in 2021 comes in the form of yet another self proclaimed smash hit slice of cake called Tomorrow’s Happiness - Coming atcha full of sweetness and that extra tang!

Layer Cake

Tomorrow's Happiness

Local Clubs & Association

Magic Wool

Devon Williams is back with a new EP named "Out of Time." Redolent with the feelings of isolation, impatience and dread common to all of us during these days of pandemic, "Out of Time" is the product of spending lockdown away from home, adding to the sense of dislocation. According to Williams: "...the ideas of running out of time, feeling stagnant, self-doubt came through in different ways in these songs."

The EP focuses on the dreamier side of Williams' blend of folk and power-pop, calling to mind such inspirations as Felt, The Church and Teardrop Explodes. Lead single "La La La La II" is a new version of a key tune from 2009's "Euphoria" album and a perfect showcase for Devon's rich, melodic songcraft. Amidst the chaos of 2021 "Out of Time" is a much-needed antidote, a soothing melodic tonic for our times.

Out of Time EP

Out of Time

Devon Williams - La La La La II

Some melancholy groove or something. B1 on Jagg3d, my third and latest LP, released Jan 1st 2021 on Retrac Recordings.

Grab a tape: https://retracrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/jagg3d

Jagg3d

Casio Jackson

Haystack Monolith is a hunter-gatherer, time traveller and retired skimmy thrower…