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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 28th April 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/batch567

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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 567

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

BEAUTY SLEEP - Radical Happiness
EUAN BLACKMAN - Girl
HAZY WATERS - Overdose
IDOLISING NOVA - Fall Apart
ISAAC STUART - Bloom (when The Rain Falls)
LOST CHIMES - Pick Up The Pieces (Radio Edit)
MARBLE STARS - Play This Tune
MELLOW PARTY - Deep In The Holy Water
NATALIE HOLMES - Jack In A Box
NICO PAUL - Iris Of White Fire
NOURIA BAH - Sawtooth Ruler
NOVELTY ISLAND - Rainy
OWEN DUFF - Travelling Light
PHIL COOPER - Bijou
PSYCHEDELIC KANGAROO CULT - Face It All
SAM REDMORE - El Camino
SHARON KATTA & NÄT - Detachment Theory
SLANEY BAY - The Long Way Home
SZOU - Rose-Tinted
THE BABLERS - Where The Wind Blows Free
THE TRUSTED - Iridescence
THINGS THAT GO - The Mourning
TOGETHER REBELS - The Love That You Deserve
TONIGHT'S SUNSHINE - Country Gay
TONY NJOKU - All Our Knives Are Always Sharp (ft Coby Sey)

Listening Post: Batch 567

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Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out Listening Post 567 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 you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves567

Fresh Faves: Batch 567

Beautiful Things

Codify depicts the gradual loss of self and identity; the control that we have over our own decisions, choices and lives ultimately. It speaks to how the sort of tech based society that we live in is not even hiding the fact that it's manipulating and controlling representation of ourselves and what we should find important so that our own autonomy is blatantly and unashamedly diminished.

Codify, 
Codify,
my decisions,
so I may not, I do not, 
rely, 
on myself, 
integrity, 
my breath, 
judgment, 
my breath,

pick the through the patterns, flick,
away, 
irrelevance, experiment,

potential, 
you may crawl, through,
the intimate, 

fought tongue hiding,
no longer, 
beneath, 
the flower,
you have the power,

knowledge, 

penetrate, 
once private
disregard, 

intuition, 

please do

Produced by Leg Puppy 2.0
Mastered by Paris Alexander 
Strings by Paris Alexander 
Words and Vox MB aka Kerry Coburn
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oowyfLSBrl4

Codify feat MB

The second single of Natalie's upcoming second album 'Opposite Day'.

Opposite Day - Second Mixes

Jack in a Box

Deep In The Holy Water' in the old days would be the hidden track on the album. Colin wrote the tune after I said I'd like to have a surf song about surfing the Severn Bore. in a crazy coincidence our pal Jane's Granda mad Jack Churchill(no relation) 1955 surfed the 'Severn Bore' in Gloucestershire on a homemade 14 foot surfboard. and it coincided at the time with the scandal that had hit the news that the majority of England's rivers are polluted, only 14% meet the standards of a "good ecological status. Its not perfect in Scotland but its better and one of the few brags we've got is that our water tastes better, but i dont want our English family literally swimming in shit when they're at the beach. I was listening to the Blindboy Podcast at the time about Irish Godesses and the reverence that Clíodhna the Celtic goddess of the sea, with a passion and love, and deep beauty had and how our old myths and religions meant there was a deep devine respect for nature that has been lost over the years. Where as before water was worshipped and revered, now it is sadly polluted. Look what happened to The Black Sea for evidence of why we shouldn't mess with our life giving bodies of water. It experienced unprecedented degradation in the 1990s causing a large dead zone. The main sources of nutrients were runoff from the agricultural sector (fertilizers and livestock waste) as well as domestic and industrial wastes. You can go a month without food,  but you can't survive 3 days without water. The oceanographer Helen Czerski's was on the brilliant 6 Music Cerys Matthews  show talking about her latest research, measuring ocean breathing. All of these different bits of inspiration led to the lyrics. It's time we got back to respecting our water and what we put into them and oh aye 'Deep In The Holy Water' is a banging tune to surf or dance to regardless of the meaning. 

7. Deep In The Holy Water lyrics 

Deep in the holy water,
into the endless wave,
The tide breaks free into the estuary, oh me oh my oh me.
Deep, deep state, Illuminate my faith, deep in the holy water. 

Deep in the holy water,
where throats and tears run dry,
storm speeding, ocean breathing,
Clíodhna reigns supreme, oh me oh my oh me.
Streams like veins, and dreams remain to ponder, deep in the holy water 

Deep in the holy water into the endless waves  oh me oh my ,oh me 
Deep in the holy water where throats and tears run dry, oh me oh my ,oh me 

Deep in the holy water!


Deep in the Holy Water by Mellow Party

Stance

Medication

Medication (Deserve To Be Well)

Fall Apart

LOVELIFE

I thought it would be interesting to write a song celebrating/acknowledging good times. The catalyst for the song was a positive end-of-something song. A lot of endings are often marked by bitterness. The song is part tongue-in-cheek because although the song is called “Good Times” ultimately the song is about someone I had to pull away from as she was a bit mixed up. It’s also partially about the city of Madrid which is a place I’ve had a love/hate relationship with down through the years.  The city has been calling me back in recent times so I decided to shoot the video there. When I wrote the song, I was thinking of previous Good Times in my life I’ve had there (and the not so good times) but with time I’ve been able to reignite the love I had for the city. We had together so I’m both celebrating those good times albeit with a sense of perspective and loss of something. The song is about being good together but the relationship was blowing hot n’ cold like the weather.

Good Times

Keelan X - Good Times

Produced by Matt Hales.

LYRICS
Hard to find peace of mind
In the cracks between the lines
Reading ads on the tube

What a time, 25
Overwork to stay alive
There’s so much left to lose

But when the rain falls
Will it hit my heart and wash away the blues? 
And let the dark find 
Another shade
Another way to bloom

Isn’t it all just noise?
Isn’t it all just life?
Oh it can’t be round and round and round and then we die

Isn’t it all just faith
Tell me I’ll be fie
If there’s a man upstairs oh he takes he god damn time
He takes his god damn time

Start the day, feel the same
Fill my cup just to pour away 
When did March turn to June? 

Lost the light in the eyes
Of someone I don’t recognise
Is there much left to lose? 

But when the rain falls
Will it hit my heart and wash away the blues? 
And let the dark find 
Another shade
Another way to bloom

Isn’t it all just noise?
Isn’t it all just life?
Oh it can’t be round and round and round and then we die

Isn’t it all just faith
Tell me I’ll be fie
If there’s a man upstairs oh he takes he god damn time
He takes his god damn time

Ohhhhh

Isn’t it all just noise?
Isn’t it all just life?
Oh it can’t be round and round and round and then we die

Isn’t it all just faith
Tell me I’ll be fie
If there’s a man upstairs oh he takes he god damn time
He takes his god damn time

bloom (when the rain falls)

Written and Produced by Euan Blackman
Backing Vocals by Olivia Rebel
Mixed by Tarek Musa @ Musa Studios
Mastered by Graeme Lynch
Photo credit: Stu Price
Ripe Records 2025

Lyrics:
She got the long hair running down
See her on the street downtown
I don’t think she even knows
She’s spending all the money in the bank
Give her dad a heart attack
I don’t think she even knows

She got the secret smile, that she saves
Kind that drives the clouds away
I don’t think she even knows
She got the tiny hoops, glasses on
YSL, silk chiffon
I don’t think she even knows

Hoo
That’s my girl
Hoo
That’s my girl

I got the kind of love that makes you cry
Think about her all the time
I don’t think she even cares
I’m saving all the money that I have
Just so I can stand a chance
I don’t think she even cares

She got that pretty face, blue eyes
Clothes that seem to fit just right
I don’t think she even cares
I got nothing left up my sleeve
Got me down on my knees
I don’t think she even cares

Hoo
That’s my girl
Hoo
That’s my girl
Hoo
That’s my girl
Hoo
That’s my girl

There she goes
There she goes
There she goes again
There she goes
There she goes
There she goes again

Hoo
That’s my girl
Hoo
That’s my girl
Hoo
That’s my girl
Hoo
That’s my girl

girl

Rainy

New single from Beauty Sleep
taken from their upcoming album 'The Whole Damn Cake' due October 2025 via Alcopop! Records

Radical Happiness

Midwest Kid

Wish I Never Met You

It’s about that kind of love that spirals - consuming, impossible to quit. It’s the sound of wanting more even when it’s already too much. Perfect for those late summer nights ✨


Written by: Agnieszka Trawczynska, Simon Velazquez, Aleksander Kaczmarek
Drums by: Marek Radziminski
Producer, Mixing Engineer: Aleksander Kaczmarek
Mastering Engineer: Krzysztof Kessler

Feel me
Just like you feel your heartbeat
On your wrists
Feel the hot blood pumping

Curious
Curious, your heart is
I might let you in
If I feel you're like me

And you crawl back to my arms and overdose

Crawl
Crawl yourself to my skin
Magnetised
To what you could not see

I'll make you fall
In so many ways
You could not imagine
I'll keep you entertained
Until nothing feels just like this

And you crawl back to my arms and overdose

It's so much faster
Feel it approaching
It's so much faster
I feel it coming
It's so much faster
I feel it coming
It's so much faster
I feel it coming

This feeling
This beating
Is harder
Than anything else

Will thicken
Will bubble
Erupt and cause trouble
We'll burst to fall

I'll watch it in rapture
An outstanding finding
And overcommitting
Cause it is so blinding
I'll try to capture
Euphoria and love
And I'm forgetting
That life is upsetting
That every beginning
Is start to an end
I will forget that we ever lived
I will forget that we ever lived

overdose

Don’t make sound
you tear it up
you carry on
Stop carrying the worst thing.

April's entry for our song a month quest for 2025. Nearly a day to spare, we must be getting the hang of this...

The Mourning

We are all in the same place, the place where hearts are torn apart, by the love they contain. 

Download :)

The Place for Broken Hearts

So we laid down on the floor next to our brand new bed
Just so we could listen closer to this new Kanye West
But I can barely hear over the music in my head
All these 808s and heartbeats bangin' in your chest

Told the driver "keep it goin'," he can run the meter
So we could finally hear Views on some decent speakers
Yellin' everytime the beat drop like a cheerleader
Spillin' a flask of Avion on your brand new sneakers

Now we at the Vogue party and the whole thing's catered
So we said that we'd leave early, get some pizza later
But my hands go down your jeans and you distract the waiter
Until we take it somewhere better like the elevator

'Til we back out on the 405 with Baby Bash
You're making me laugh, now I'm just trying not to crash
And all we do is drive, sugar how’d you get so fly?
And I see people staring at us from the overpass
But these days I've dropped the keys to Anthony's Mercedes
We're standin' naked in the kitchen listenin' to Amy
And in those weeks you fuckin' lost it cause you just wrote "Crazy"
It seems like you never listen and I hate you lately…

bloom (when the rain falls)

Isaacstuart