Any artist is welcome to send us ONE track via freshonthenet.co.uk anytime between Monday lunchtime and Thursday morning - and all our moderators, including Tom Robinson, will listen to every track*. This is our full inbox from the week beginning Mon 07 November from mid-day on Friday 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/batch218

*Note: we don't listen again to tunes we've already heard, and automatically block artists who send more than one track a week (our moderators can manage to work their way through 150+ tunes overnight, but 300+ would be impossible!)

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 218

Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 218 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 Nick Walker  - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves218

Fresh Faves: Batch 218

2016

BBC Introducing/Fresh On The Net Top Tracks 2016

Joe's playlist

Silent Cities - Hey Ooma

Written by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan

With every match in every matchbook in the town,
In fifty years you'd never burn this mother down.
I shut my eyes last night, 'Good Lord' I felt so small,
It makes you wonder why we run this town at all...

In East Virginia there's a little place I know,
Just brush the snowflakes off your shoulders and we'll go,
You checked your watch and said it's twenty-five past two,
With due respect I don't believe it's up to you.

'Just switch it off' I've seen it time and time again,
She cuts his hair and they go dancing at the end. 
I saw you comforting your husband at the grave,
It's only after he's asleep you misbehave




I SAID YES - Run This Town

Baby encapsulates the selfishness of love, explored through the paranoia and envy of one side.  Doubt creates a silence where everything is too hard to change. In the end the protagonist finds that
real love can only be found in yoga and crystals.

Angharad Drake - Baby

I Need To Know

Drive by Tourists.

Official release date: Friday 4th November 2016

Audio produced by https://soundcloud.com/jamesbragg

Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmJG_6-spp8

Spotify: http://spoti.fi/2evQKCo
Apple Music / iTunes: http://bit.ly/2elTCOE
Deezer: http://bit.ly/2evWPP8

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www.twitter.com/touristsuk
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www.touristsband.bandcamp.com

Drive (Extended Version)

Debut Single: 11.11.16.

AUSTERITY: Thomas Vincent - Vocals + Guitar; Stu Chaney - Bass + Vocals; Sam Luck - Drums + Percussion

Glass House

Departures

FAITALA - Forty One

TV Man was: recorded, produced, and mixed, with Ady Hall and Lee McCarthy of Sugar House Music, at Catalyst Studios.

Single artwork created by Elle Louise Binns.

Don't Let the Bad Seeds Grow

TV Man

                              

Kolibrí - Dream Theatre

Years

25.11.2016

June

Released on December 7th on Birds Records worldwide. 

“More than likely make its way towards getting stuck in your head and your heart for the forseeable future.” – Jajaja Music
 
”Music that matters” - KEXP

"Absolutely glorious garagepop" - Clash Magazine 

“Powerful and determined garage stomp with howling vocals and distortion-draped guitars.”  - Amazing Radio

“Like a smiley-faced flashback to Manchester’s La Hacienda glory days.”
- Q Magazine

Sweden's Honeymilk has been around for 4 years but just recently scaled down to a duo (from a previous four piece). We all have our ups and downs and the story of how the two main figures Marcus Admund and Nikki Nyberg hold on to each other since meeting in a scout cabin back in 2009 is one full of fighting spirit and love for the music they're creating. 

At the moment they're in studio working on the follow up to critically acclaimed 2013 debut "Lean on The Sun" (and 2014's "Sanguine Skies EP"). Their shoegazy Britpop has gained supporters all over the world - notable ones are KEXP, Q Magazine, Jajaja Music and Music Week. 

In June 2016 their latest effort "Time Will Kill You" soon turned into their most succesful single to this date - with playlists adds and media ravings flowing in to the HQ. The band play a sold out show at The Finsbury in London and the single soon hit 140k+ streams on Spotify.

"'The Nothing New' could be about finding yourself in an age and situation where the demands that hunts you are increasing; the same that it takes more alcohol to get drunk, it takes greater and greater everyday explosions for the static line that life has gradually turned into to be moved. It could also be a pretentious and unclear salute to both Samuel Beckett's book Murphy or Spacemen 3. Or it could be a very good pop song that means nothing."

Follow Honeymilk:
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Follow Birds Records:
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@birds-rec

Honeymilk - "The Nothing New"

THE CITY
Featuring vocals from Zak Waters and Cass Lowe

Out now in the US : http://t.co/ea4yyDgN
Out on the 8th of October worldwide

The City

Madeon - The City

Wiley   Heatwave feat. Ms.D

The official Kat Krazy Remix of Coldplay - 'Hurts Like Heaven'

http://katkrazymusic.com

http://facebook.com/katkrazymusic

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http://youtube.com/katkrazymusic

http://www.coldplay.com

Coldplay - Hurts Like Heaven (Kat Krazy Remix) OFFICIAL

Download new album on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/IceOnTheDuneiTunes?IQid=soundcloud.alive

Alive Remix EP available now on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/AliveEP?IQid=soundcloud.alive

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I Need To Know

Hydromag