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ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 499

This is the batch of tracks that tickled my ears this week on Fresh On The Net.

Platinum Mind Fresh Picks batch 499

An ever growing list of favourites from my musical rummaging

The Big Grey Playlist

Who was it said that we're all immigrants?

Green Card

Release Date: 04/08/2023

Streaming Link: https://ffm.to/idwhijwlh

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Chaos

I Don't Wanna Hurt, I Just Wanna Lay Here

Bon-Psy - I Don't Wanna Hurt, I Just Wanna Lay Here

One Small Mistake

Lyrics: Stand For Something

Morning, there’s something about to change
The weather’s cool around that keeps me floored
And you are somewhere out of here
Cause you know where we belong
Let’s carry on

And I want to wonder ¿How to keep me?
In your heart for summer
There’s a gloomy day that takes me aware
Of falling and stand

My time seems to spare and loop around
Cause all I need to find Is on this race
To love you

And I want to wonder ¿How to keep me?
In your heart for summer ¿How to keep me?
And I want to wonder ¿How to keep me?
In your heart for summer

Oh there’s a gloomy day that takes me aware
Of falling and stand.

DEBUT SOLO EP 'DAYLIGHT' IS OUT! 
On Apple Music, Spotify & More

Daylight [The Single]

Stand For Something

Stream

I Must Go To The Party Alone

No Doubt

Put On A Light

Little Tom - Radio Edit

Alec Clegg was Chief Education Officer for the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1945 to 1974. He believed in a liberal arts based education for all and held that such an approach stimulated better outcomes generally. Anyone going to a West Riding school would be encouraged to paint, draw, dance, sing, or learn a foreign language simply because it was the right thing to do. 

No-one today has ever heard of him. 

No child today escapes the grim “if-you-fail-maths-you-will-die” austerity of national curricula, academy chains and ofsted inspectors with bad hair and no dress sense.

This tune, whose first line is taken from an Ian McMillan article about Clegg, is a nostalgic howl for something better for our children.

Alec Clegg Can Still Dream

Download at https://robclarke.bandcamp.com/track/shes-a-mean-2
Bonjour!
Some exciting news from the Cafe Le Wooltone.
Today I release a song from my upcoming solo album ‘Blues, Beats and Brel' - it’s called ‘She's A Mean’ and features a live stripped back acoustic performance with merely a hint of piano (and handclaps). And production by Fran Ashcroft. 
The album splits into three styles (hence the title) based on a 'diet of old blues records, beat poetry and Jacques Brel accordion sandwiches'.
De toute facon this one fits more into the ‘Blues' scheme of things.
Salut!
Rob

Blues Beats and Brel

She's A Mean

Here's an early mix of a track, 'Teetering On The Edge', which will be on this year's - 2024 - album ('It's Nice To Be Niche'), due out in October. Is it a song for the Flat Earth Society? No, but it could be. Is it a song about falling over? No. Do I like the word, 'teetering'? Yes, I do. It's a great word! But also, sometimes it does feel as though we are all Teetering On The Edge.

Teetering On The Edge

SYLVIA

Surf rock influenced post punk tune duet about social anxiety and existential dread

Alec Clegg Can Still Dream

Jimmy Andrex & the Bible of Dreams