January 2019

Any artist is welcome to send us a 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 4 Feb: from midday 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/batch313

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. You will be able to resubmit the track in future.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 313

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Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 313 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 JFlames - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves313

Fresh Faves: Batch 313

Lo-fi - Trip hop &#x2F; chill &#x2F; dubstep featuring Burial, Tricky, Magnetic Man, Four Tet, Breakage, Chase and Status Nero

Lo-fi - Trip hop / chill / dubstep

Burial - Archangel

Produced, Recorded/Engineered, and Lyrics by Tommy Paxton-Beesley
Instrumental written by Tommy Paxton-Beesley & David Lewis

David Lewis - Synth, Cello
John Mavrogiannis - Bass
Tommy Paxton-Beesley - Vocals, Drums, Synth, Guitar, Bass

Mixed by Matty Tavares, Mark Murray, and Tommy Paxton-Beesley
Mastered by Noah Mintz

When The Time Is Right 

No Talk

Fallen Light

Phaeleh - Breathe in Air (feat. Soundmouse)

Finnish live Electropunk duo I Think I Broke Something’s long awaited debut LP is finally here! “Add Spikes On Top” comes at you with full speed and 10 new high energy originals by ITIBS, who take their dynamic lyric driven mix of Electro, Breaks, Punk and Electronica to the next level with their first album.

Creative and fresh with a touch of weird, these guys have already shown time and time again with their previous releases that their music is one of a kind and “Add Spikes On Top” builds on the duo’s ability to back their wild attitude with their unique sound and characteristic music. This isn’t well polished and uniformed Electronic music. ITIBS don’t care about following commercial standards and recycling already used musical recipes. This is raw Electropunk with one and only purpose. Get you moving, dancing, jumping around and headbanging (preferably all at the same time).

And of course staying loyal to their punk DIY origins and influences, I Think I Broke Something’s debut comes with a completely self made music video for the track “Attitude” too, proving that the duo’s creative impulses extend beyond their music and allowing their crazy style to bleed over into the accompanying visuals. Just don’t forget to add spikes on top…

Add Spikes On Top

Cyanide

Echoes of Albion

The Green Man

©Dead Sea, 2018
Official video: youtu.be/7wQ_qs-vn2E
Produced by Dead Sea
Mixed by Aaron Bastinelli 
Mastered by Mike Marsh

Know Where

The karma’s coming back 
there's only one way out 
they want us all gone 
I read the Georgia Stones 

you’ll know it when you look 
the studies have been cooked 
but no one's gonna know 
we kill our whistleblowers 

only hearts of black 
whats coming down their tracks? 
and who is gonna save us? 
these 9/11 babies 

the office 
the greyscale 
the tunnels 
the plasterboard 
the windows 95 
the reason I’m alive 
to be clear 
for one year 

the island 
the mainland 
the chemtrails 
the cocktails 
the function 
the form 
manipulated norms 

I’m roughly ignited 
I’m changed by this island 
I’m wishing I could see you 
if the clock hands would turn back 

here I am again 
feeling out this deep pain 
the lobbyists are crazy 
cause 9/11 babies 
Pharma knows the cure 
but profits must endure 
regulations failed 
they’ve all been blackmailed 

the language 
the echoes 
nostalgia 
the clock hands 
the windows 95 
just as I arrive 

it was so clear 
for one year 

the island 
the mainland 
the chemtrails 
the cocktails 
the function 
the form 
the will inside to overcome it all.

all music and words: Antony Walker
(except for cymbals and hihat by Melle Brouwer) 
mixed by: Michel Vermeulen - Studio peggy51 (Amsterdam) 
mastered by: Tim Turan - Turan Audio (Oxford)

Buy/Download

Clock Hand Reversal

From EMERGER's debut release 'Bloom' out now on all leading platforms.

iTunes: https://apple.co/2Gt4jgq
Apple Music: https://apple.co/2wNfDV7
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2rPaDJR
Google Play: http://bit.ly/GPlayBloom
Amazon: http://a.co/awj6ZRx

Music & lyrics by Gerrit Matthee and Emma de Goede.

Produced by Gerrit Matthee.
Mixed by David Langemann.
Mastered by Christian Wright at Abbey Road Studios.

Vocals by Emma de Goede
All instruments and backing vocals by Gerrit Matthee

Album artwork by Kim van Vuuren.

Lyrics:
Where do you go when you follow the road
Leading you far from the places you know?
Into the other side of the world
Where nobody cares if you stay or you go

How do you find the peace of mind
When you’ve left everything behind?
Just take my hand and forget the past
And pick up the map that we used to dream of

We can find a way to escape 
Over distant troubled waters
Seeking love, adventure and fate
In the infinite abyss
Together we can be nomadic lovers
And navigate this never-ending journey

Where do you go when you follow the road
Taking you far where your heart overflows?
Never look back on the steps that you take
Many mistakes will show you the way

How do you fight these runaway years?
Limbo lock and I just disappear
Stop-motion is closing in
It gets harder to restart in the end

We can find a way to escape 
Over distant troubled waters
Seeking love, adventure and fate
In the infinite abyss
Together we can be nomadic lovers
And navigate this never-ending journey

© All rights reserved. Echolydian Music. 2018.

Bloom

Stream | Buy

Nomadic Love

Ready To Die (Mudd's Extended Mix) Clip

A thought provoking track of positive uplifting emotions. Combining electronic sounds with a classic British guitar edge, powerful vocals and deep bass and drums.

SOMETIMES

Lullaby

i dont want to answer my phone
i dont want to leave my room
i dont know what to do

i lost my head at your party
i lost my friends there too
i dont know what to do

i want to know something you don't

i don't know what to do (demo)

1001 Nacht

The third single from Manchester indie-rock band Freeda. 

Produced by: Sugar House 
Mastered by: Fluid Mastering

Plead

Frostbite, the brand new single by Danish artist MALMØ, is out on 1st February 2019 via Integrity Records/Songcrafter Music. The track and accompanying video comprise Part I of a 4-track EP, The Inevitable End, a prediction in 4 parts – each one representing a different way of the world collapsing if we don´t change our behaviour. 

Working closely with Kasper Vindeløv (graphic designer) and Noemi Müller (videographer) on each of the 4 Parts, MALMØ are keen to add to the wider discussion of the potentially irreparable damage mankind seems intent on inflicting upon our own planet.

Of Part I - Frostbite, vocalist/songwriter Maria says:

"Imagine that the seasons stop changing. Winter arrives but never leaves.  Ice and snow cover the entire globe - a man-made ice age that we have created but don’t know how to rewind. We have hidden ourselves so deeply within that we don´t know how to find our way out. The ‘hounds of winter’ are out. There is no going back. It won´t be long now … The Inevitable End."

The Inevitable End EP will follow 2018’s critically acclaimed debut album We Come From The Stars and its 3 UK singles, with spot plays on BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio Ulster, Amazing Radio, Shoreditch Radio and numerous regional stations, and Spotify playlisting from the likes of Crack In The Road, Alex Rainbird, Double J, Listen To Discover, TUNE, Big Tune IMR & Spotify editorial support across the Nordics and as far away as Taiwan.

“Bringing fragility and rawness into beautiful harmony” – Lo-Fi

“Maria’s vocals are pure, celestial, with a hint of innocent bliss” – Cougar Microbes

www.malmo-music.com
www.facebook.com/mariamalmoe            www.twitter.com/malmo_music 
www.instagram.com/malmo_music_

Frostbite - The Inevitable End, Part I

MALMØ - Frostbite: The Inevitable End, Part I

Ed.U.Cated-Crook

I was only young when he told me that he had enough
For me to just stay home and relax, don'y worry 'bout the money in the bank
'Cause I got stacks around the house, it's underneath the floorboards in the lounge
It's only bits of paper lying round, everything you need is underground
I think it feels right

Would you like to be my sugardaddy?
I'm tired of working seven days a week
He's old enough to treat me properly
In five more years, he might die in his sleep

I was wearing red that dress you like
And now it's hanging over my head like a cloud
When did it start to feel like this? You say you love me and you'll pay for it
Am I your little pet? You keep me rest and red
I say it twice then you write me a cheque, 
It's like you never care if I'm upset, I wish you could slot notes into my head

Sugardaddy

Black Spot

Integrity Records was founded in 1994 in a small office in Bedford, England. After early releases from Cambridge indie-boys The Traceys, the label became notable for signing bands such as Miss Black America, Plutonik and Million Dead, whose vocalist Frank Turner went on to forge a successful solo career.

John Peel was a great supporter of the label and played the vast majority of their releases on his BBC Radio 1 show. In 2002, 5 Integrity releases (including B-sides) proudly appeared in Peel’s annual Festive Fifty.

In recent years, Integrity has also been the UK home for American artists such as ex-Babes In Toyland Kat Bjelland's Katastrophy Wife, Nashville-based duo Travis+Julie and former Low Anthem guitarist Daniel Lefkowitz's new band Futur Primitif, together with Australian all-girl scrunge-rock trio Valentiine and their Melbourne underground buddies Mannequin Death Squad; the most recent additions to the Integrity family being Danish dream-folkers MALMØ and Ida Wenøe, and Greenlander Simon Lynge.

The label's long-term ethos of discovering and supporting home-grown talent also remains strong, with album and EP releases from the likes of Pet Dog Storm, Miniature Dinosaurs, theLights, Horse Party, Silhouettes and Ghosts of Social Networks in their catalogue.