~ new monthly playlist!! May 2022 ~

added to regularly, a mix of new tracks from my favourite artists and exciting new discoveries, mostly made via submissions to my music blog (www.coolmusicandthings.co.uk/) - a chance to share things that I enjoy but might not get round to writing a post about :)

for something a bit more heavily curated, check out the blog's main Spotify playlist which I update weekly: open.spotify.com/playlist/3cUmjDhCtwBrilcJMCb4vq

acoustic/folk/chilled playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/47kVuG60PJokywkb74tBob

girls allowed: open.spotify.com/playlist/3GNrMJ29veOfSwdybKq9pO

the CMAT office stereo: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/07UM0wCfNhjcF3XeZMD30n?si=f5e022b6cb654f1d

enjoy

cool music and things: May 2022

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 23rd May: 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/batch448

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. 

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.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 448

Discover the best new indie/pop/folk music in our June 2022 playlist! Thank you for listening and for supporting independent artists :)

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Indie/Pop/Folk Compilation - June 2022 (alexrainbirdMusic)

We Won't Even Know It (the birthday song)

The Water & The Rough

Keep Moving

Second Day Of Spring

If I Were a Ghost

Please Don’t Be

Please Don't Be

Single 2 from upcoming album 'Broken Spells' by Jo Beth Young

Released March 18th 2022 via wildness rising records

Adversity - Jo Beth Young

Old Sob Story

Old Sob Story (Radio Edit)

"Castle" by Canyon City

Lyrics:

You asleep, rear backseat
I can see my breath
I’m waiting on caffeine
Like waiting on a bet

I wish I had a castle
To guard you from all fear
We’d laugh into the echo
A moat to hold the tears

Someday we’ll make it
Some way, I know
‘Til we hold it to the light like a counterfeit bill
We can hide out in a castle all our own

And we’ll throw dinner parties
With midnight moon our guest
Pretend we’re over far away seas
And not his empty rest

And we can walk the garden
If you go hide I’ll seek
Until the morning’s started
And I’ll go make ends meet

Someday we’ll make it
Some way, I know
‘Til we hold it to the light like a counterfeit bill
We can hide out in a castle all our own

If we can’t stay we’ll fake it
If we can’t pay, don’t cry
‘Til they hold me to the light like a counterfeit bill
We can hide out in a castle all night

I wish I had a magic machine
To castles in the sky
To take away from sadness between
The morning and the night
The morning and the night
The morning and the night

Castle

One More Step / Make It Home - OUT NOW! https://album.link/s/7rh211xedlVkdWwmVJKdhK

http://www.joehicksmusic.com 
http://www.facebook.com/joehicksmusic 
http://www.twitter.com/joehicksmusic
http://www.instagram.com/joehicksmusic
http://joehicksuk.bandcamp.com

'One More Step' - Music and Lyrics by Joe Hicks

Produced & Mixed by Sam Winfield studio91.net
Engineered by Tom Millar
Mastered by Robin Schmidt

Vocals and Guitar performed by Joe Hicks
Keyboard performed by Sam Winfield
Drums performed by Ed Broad
Bass Guitar performed by Joshua Rigal
Percussion performed by Tom Millar

Recorded at Studio 91, Newbury, England

Artwork by Casey Roarty caseyroarty.studio
Photography by Jack Margerison www.jackmargerison.co.uk/

ONE MORE STEP

I’ve been waging a war in the darkness 
Charging like a cavalier
And waving a flag with a plan of attack 
To make it out, make it out of here

One more step, one more step
One more step to make it out of here 
One more step, one more step
To leave, leave this town

I never see the sun, ‘cause my head is buried in the clouds 
Could I scale these walls to find that I’m the only, the only one? 
The only one?

With the weight of the world on my shoulders
God, I hope the greener grass is near
‘Cause I’ve burned every bridge, saying “right, this is it!” 
Time to make it out, make it out of here

One more step, one more step
One more step to make it out of here 
One more step, one more step
To leave, leave this town

I never see the sun, ‘cause my head is buried in the clouds 
Could I scale these walls to find that I’m the only, the only one?
The only one?
Could I scale these walls to find that I’m the only, the only one?

Take me somewhere with a foreign tongue 
And maybe then I’ll know my life’s begun, oh

One more step, one more step
One more step to make it out of here 
One more step, one more step
To leave, to leave this town

I never see the sun, ‘cause my head is buried in the clouds
Could I scale these walls to find that I’m the only, the only one? 
I never see the sun, but I dream of breaking through the clouds 
Could I scale these walls to find that I’m the only, the only one? 
The only one?

One More Step / Make It Home

One More Step

Funeral

The Other Side (As The Sun Comes Up)

All in Your Head

TV, Junk Food & Bed

“Honeymoon” is the first single to be released off of their upcoming EP, which narrates a journey of womanhood. The story starts with “Honeymoon”, taking a fond look back on the sweetness of childhood rebellion and the sense of freedom and indestructibility you feel as a teen. Withers lyrically recounts stories from her formative years as her now adult self, sharing “It’s nice to have an uplifting sense of appreciation for my own personal experiences which have moulded me even if they didn't seem so poignant or great at the time, how we know not what we have until it’s gone. With that being said there is nothing melancholy about this narrative, I have such a tenderness and affection for my teen self, an enjoyment to revisit her and a continuation of personal growth and one day looking back at myself now with a similar fondness.” Singing, “It was a honeymoon, a cocoon, feeling like someone new”, the music is driving yet ethereal with pop elements that will have you singing the hook all day long.

Honeymoon

Double Back Is a single promoting my upcoming debut project
Aura Of An Underrated PRODiGY 
Droppin on the 6th Of June 2022
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Ykay da Great
©️Prodigiosity

Double Back.mp3

Wasted

Sleeping Pills
Bruce Panagopoulos

Lyrics:

[VERSE]
I'll go
To meet you
Out way
Where you flew

[CHORUS]
Beside
The Moon

[VERSE II]
I'll walk
With you
To the end
We flew

[CHORUS II]
Beside
I lay
The Moon
With you

[OUT]
To the end.

All Credits: Bruce Panagopoulos

Sleeping Pills (Single)

Sleeping Pills

Singer-Songwriter from Newbury, UK.
http://www.joehicksmusic.com

Hailing from Newbury in Berkshire, Singer-Songwriter Joe Hicks blends intricate guitar composition and soaring falsetto with classic pop song-craft. Since his first single release at the start of 2017, Joe has racked up over 5 million Spotify streams, was made 'BBC Introducing Artist of the Week’ across the U.K Radio, received airplay on BBC Radio 2 and toured the UK and Europe, including appearances at CarFest, the Big Feastival, Are You Listening? Festival, Pub in the Park, over 30 Sofar Sounds shows and slots supporting Sam Fender, Seafret, James Walsh and Starsailor.

“A performer not to be missed” - Manchester Evening News

“A highly individual musical identity, fusing pop with R’n’B, gossamer melody with liquid guitar work” - CLASH Magazine