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 17th June 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/batch534

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 534

My favourites from the full inbox on FOTN this week (batch 534). Check out the original, full list from FOTN here: https://on.soundcloud.com/xunKM6fLuYnvNqZw5

UPDATE: The results came in, and I selected 3 of the final top 10. Not bad, considering there were >150 tracks in the original list!

FRESH ON THE NET 534 - MY FAVS

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

Listening Post: Batch 534

Holy Dazed.

The Veil | D.L. Cordero

SING

To be released on 7th June 2024 as a part of our debut EP "Scream"

scream (radio edit)

Picture Of You

‘Just A Feeling’ captures the experience of being caught off guard by a negative episode and coming to terms with unexpected and overwhelming emotions. The song explores the idea that what we feel comes and goes and ultimately even the darkest days cannot sustain their potency. 

Track credits:
Written and performed by Emma Miller, vocals and keys arranged by Emma Miller, produced and mixed by Lucas Mendes, drums Daniel Kinde, mastered by Daniel Ovie. 

LYRICS: 
It’s been a week and I’ve had my head up in the clouds
No wait, I think this is just how it feels to be on solid ground
Now I’ve got this heaviness and I’m feeling down
God knows what’s inside my brain to have turned this around
I’ve got to keep on telling myself
It’s just a feeling it’s just a moment
Keep on telling myself it will pass
But right now I’m in it, now I’m feeling every fibre of my being
And I don’t know how to get out
They tell you mother nature’s the best medicine
(Finding) beauty in the everyday, well that makes sense
But when it’s washing over, I swear there’s nothing that helps
Bring you back to yourself truly, you’re in a different land
I’ve got to keep on telling myself,
It’s just a feeling it’s just a moment
Keep on telling myself it will pass
But right now I’m in it, now I’m feeling every fibre of my being
And I don’t know how to get out
I’ve got to keep on telling myself,
It’s just a feeling it’s just a moment
Keep on telling myself it will pass
But right now I’m in it,
Now I’m feeling every fibre of my being
But right now I’m in it,
Now I’m feeling every fibre of my being
But right now I’m in it,
Now I’m feeling every fibre of my being
And I don’t know how to get out
And I don’t know how to get out
And I don’t know how to get out 

© Emma Miller 2024

Just A Feeling

Recorded by Billy Foster at Snap Studios and mastered by James Trevascus at Bakewell Audio, the song fuses intimate verses with big anthemic choruses, charting an internal monologue of the author battling with himself and ultimately choosing life over self-destructive behaviour: 

‘You could be the enemy, I’m not - When the fever stops I just Bleed a lot - I’m not the enemy, not your enemy’

To celebrate their releases, The Lunar Keys often put their little money where their big mouths are - in support of good causes. For example, ‘Silent Ricochet’ aided the arrival of 900 trees (and counting), whilst ‘Stop This’, ‘Oxygen Type’, ‘Once’ and ‘Maniac’ raised money for the charities Nordoff Robbins, Oxygen, TheTrussellTrust and the nurses at The Royal Surrey Hospital respectively. 

The release of BLEED will continue this Lunar tradition: Inspired by recent events and, well, the song’s title, the band pledges to donate £1 for each of the first 250 airplays or reviews that BLEED receives to the Haemophilia Society. So, if you like BLEED and are good enough to play it on your show, please let us know, so that we can up the tally and big you up on our socials. 

Thanks to great DJs like your good self, previous Lunar Keys releases have enjoyed over 5000 plays from more than 400 radio stations including Planet Rock, BBC Wales, Amazing Radio and BBC Introducing, where 5 of our singles enjoyed ‘Track of the Day’.

We are deeply grateful to anyone supporting our music and always happy to do interviews or recorded intros for your show. 

And if you’d like to check us out live, we’ll always be happy to put you + 1 on our guest list, as well as donate a couple of tickets, if you’d like to run an on air competition: We’ll next be appearing live on Saturday, the 22nd of June at The Exeter Cavern.

‘The Lunar Keys greatly impress with epic alt-rock anthems and trade in strong, direct songs with memorable tunes.’ Tony Hardy, Glastonbury Festival ETC Judge

‘Brilliant, a classic feel with a contemporary twist from a band well worth knowing about.’  Stereo Stickman

And here’s some more info about the band and the release: 

The Lunar Keys are 4 anxious types from Guildford (UK) with too many tunes and nervous energy trapped in their psyches not to be in this band. The band perfected its line up in February 2020 and have had a blast ever since, honing their craft and building a dedicated following.

Previous Lunar Keys releases have enjoyed hundreds of reviews and more than 535,000 views and streams. 

https://linktr.ee/thelunarkeys

Thanks for taking the time to listen and read.
Lunar Love 

Lyrics: 	

Eye to eye
Yeah we're standing tall
Blood will paint the sky
Rain until we fall
If I draw your heart
Can I have it all

Fight & Scream until I dream
My jealousy is overpowering
Then it cuts

Just like I
Bleed a lot - the feeling stops
You could be the enemy - I'm not
When the fever stops - I just Bleed a lot
I'm not the enemy - not your enemy
Oh oh oh


Blinding lights
Thunder in the wind
Burning day and night
Underneath my skin

Fight & scream until I dream
My jealousy is overpowering
Then it cuts

Just like I
Bleed a lot - the feeling stops
You could be the enemy - I'm not
When the fever stops - I just Bleed a lot
I'm not the enemy - not your enemy
Oh oh oh

Open your eyes
Watch my pain run through you
Cut me like a knife

Just like I
Bleed a lot - the feeling stops
You could be the enemy

Just like I
Bleed a lot - the feeling stops
You could be the enemy - I'm not
When the fever stops - I just Bleed a lot
I'm not the enemy - not your enemy
Oh oh oh

Bleed

The first single from the album "Sketches For The Requiem" 

An Instrumental Orchestral track, initially featuring call and response between cello and piano over subtle atmospheric effects before building to a fuller orchestral arrangement.

I Can Hear You

Taken from forthcoming solo album, this is being released as first single. Stunning video will accompany single. Just Ben and guitar, totally stripped back, recorded at Crystal Studios in North Norfolk with Jack Murphy behind the controls.

You & I

"Fade from View" is a slick and subtle banger that builds and builds to amazing effect. Layers of woozy, warbling melodic patterns weave through labyrinthine bends of pulsing beats and shimmering synths. It's a cool and collected closer from an album of colossal character. The track is from Jonny Fallout's new release, "Concentric Circles", which is now available from Triplicate Records.

Bandcamp: jonnyfallout.bandcamp.com/album/concentric-circles

Concentric Circles

Fade from View (Album Version)

'She Moves Me' is the first single from Megan Walker's forthcoming solo, debut album. Inspired by 60s guitar pop, 'She Moves Me' is a sexy, upbeat, soulful tune that celebrates finally feeling secure in a loving relationship and letting go of loneliness and isolation. A perfect release for Pride month!

She Moves Me

Jonny Fallout is an electronic artist / producer of synthwave, retrowave and synthpop with cyberpunk flavor. When he's not abusing the upper limits of his machine's RAM, he's obsessively sampling cool noises, constructing new sounds, or remixing tracks.