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ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 327

Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 327 and tell us which tracks they liked best. Here, in alphabetical order, are our readers' top favourites. Our reviews are written by BBC Introducing's Emily Pilbeam this week - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves327

Fresh Faves: Batch 327

sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Amore (坂本龍一 Playing the Orchestra 2013)

Ryuichi Sakamoto Bibo No Aozora

released on OCEAN 09/05/19

voyage live on novation summit : youtu.be/cdhNcEiYGiA

voyage

Ryuichi Sakamoto - energy flow

teleporting through the atmosphere //
leaving your legacy behind

released on OCEAN 09/05/19

teleport

'Lilith' is the first single from Faith Eliott's forthcoming debut album 'Impossible Bodies', which will be released on OK Pal Records April 19th, 2019. 

The concept behind the record came about via their interest in medieval bestiaries, which are illustrated compendiums of animals. Each entry in a bestiary depicts an animal and is accompanied by a meaning or a lesson that it represents. The album is based on the same framework, so each song is symbolised by a different creature.

According to folklore, Lilith is the first wife of Adam before Eve. The story goes that she refuses to be subservient to Adam and is banished from the garden of Eden, returning later as the snake who tempts Eve. Faith explains: "I was inspired to write the song after a visit to a reptile petting zoo… seeing all the snakes in glass boxes. The lyrics chronicle an explosive escape in which the snake I call Lilith breaks free from the petting zoo and spirals off into space as the world crumbles and burns behind her. It’s a song about feeling captive in an identity, specifically as a woman, but also more generally as a body."

Lilith - Faith Eliott

Starstruck, from Night Silk Threads, the new EP from The Woods out 17 May 2019.

Written, recorded & produced by Johnny McFadzean.
Mixed by Tony Nwachukwu.
Mastered by Shuta Shinoda.

WELCOME TO /||\ THE WOODS /||\ 
www.musicfromthewoods.com
S p o t i f y
open.spotify.com/artist/2IG6UBvhnU3607AuOtCYFq
Y o u T u b e
www.youtube.com/channel/UCrLzhhdjdvZqANl85RZCz4g
i T u n e s
itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/the-woods/1028079690
B a n d c a m p
www.musicfromthewoods.bandcamp.com

The Woods is the music of Scottish producer, vocalist & multi-instrumental live-loop artist Johnny McFadzean.
info@musicfromthewoods.com
07530231141

Night Silk Threads

Starstruck

Outside

Following the success of double A-side single, Holy Rivers / Incubation Song, which has racked up over 150,000 streams on Spotify since its October release and was praised by Clash Music for its “shimmering synths, glacial electronics, and heartrending vocals”, London Synthpop group Empathy Test returns with a second, tantalising taste of their upcoming third album, in the form of new single Empty-handed.

Empty-handed presents another sonic leap forward for a band that has never been one to tread water when it comes to their sound, presenting a harder, darker style whilst simultaneously tipping their proverbial hat to the Synthwave scene that helped launch their career back in 2014. An arpeggiated synthesiser provides a relentless momentum from the get-go, while the deceptively simple composition gradually builds to its epic conclusion.

Opening line, “My heart is an empty vessel / Drifting out to sea” sets the tone both lyrically and emotionally. It’s about being unable to give a partner the emotional support or commitment they need and the feeling of emptiness that comes with that. As always, Empathy Test delivers a perfect marriage of music and emotion, the sudden flourishes of strings and synthesisers rushing past like spirits in the night. 

There’s a sense of urgency here that has not been present previously, as well as an innate confidence that suggests the third album, which comes after the simultaneous release of two debut albums Losing Touch (Remastered) and Safe From Harm in November 2017 and is slated for release in early September, might just be the band’s most accomplished to date.

Empathy Test is childhood friends Isaac Howlett (vocals and songwriting) and Adam Relf (production and composition). They perform live with the help of Christina Lopez (live drums) and Samuel Winter-Quick (live keyboards). This June, they tour the UK with Canadian Post Punk band Actors and in September, North America, with Industrial Pop act Aesthetic Perfection. They will also be appearing at selected festivals in Europe. 

Empty-handed will be self-released in digital and CD formats on 20th June 2019, with b-side A River Loves a Stone and remixes by ex-Black City Lights producer TRAAPS and LA artist and producer Ari Mason, plus the band’s customary 7” vinyl picture disc format, all of which can be pre-ordered right now from Empathy Test’s Bandcamp.

For more information, please feel free to contact Empathy Test on email: info@empathytest.com

Empty Handed

Buzzcut

Spotify

Buzzcut (feat. staHHr)

Querencia is a song about finding your most authentic self, in a specific place or time within your imagination. Longing for that place to be reality but realising that it can never be.

Here are the lyrics

My heart is racing and I'm feeling down
It's my emotion when your not around
Dark and grey, dull and blue without you
Without you

But when I'm feeling at home, sometimes it's when I'm alone, when I make my destiny
And yet I will be ok, cause I'm controlling my day, in my real life fantasy

There's an endless story, everything is 2D
Living out my big dreams, no-one to disturb me
I just want to stay here, nothing's really real here
Guess I've gotta say goodbye but I don't wanna go

Don't go, don't go, don't disappear
Don't go don't go, don't  disappear 
Don't go don't go, don't disappear 
From me, from me

When I'm happy I forget it's there
It's my salvation, when my thoughts are In the air
Here I am back again, I don't know why

But when I'm feeling at home, sometimes it's when I'm alone, when I make my destiny
And yet I will be ok, cause I'm controlling my day, in my real life fantasy

There's an endless story, everything is 2D
Living out my big dreams, no-one to disturb me
I just want to stay here, nothing's really real here
Guess I've gotta say goodbye ..........

Querencia

"Let Go", debut release with Last Night From Glasgow.

Let Go

Tiny Hits are a London-based duo writing intimate pop-influenced electronic music.

Follow Tiny Hits:
Spotify - http://spoti.fi/2Tw4QJm
Twitter - http://twitter.com/tinyhits
Soundcloud - @tinyhits
Instagram - http://instagram.com/tinyhits
Bandcamp - http://tinyhits.bandcamp.com

Tiny Hits - Nothing Points To You
Written & Produced by Tiny Hits
Mixed by Paul Cousins
Mastered by Andy Baldwin at Metropolis

Nothing Points To You

tinyhits.com

Nothing Is Still

From The Sea/It Looms (Chapters I & II)

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Seven Samurai (album three)

大森日向子
✉️  : hello@hinakoomori.com

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hinako omori