marky's fresh faves pt2

wading

Any artist is welcome to send us a track via freshonthenet.co.uk anytime between Monday lunchtime and Thursday morning (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 19th October: 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/batch382

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 that have been previously submitted and tracks from banned artists will also be removed.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 382

Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 382 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 Christopher McBride - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves382

Fresh Faves: Batch 382

My weekly 5 picks from the @freshnet Listening Post for 2020.

Tobi's Fresh Net Favs 2020

gutless

FALSELOVE is composed and performed by @nowoe 
MIX & MASTER by @kind

don't need you

closer ft. calvin kind

should be

by @falselove w help from @kind 
seeking peace, still searching~ 

</3 falselove

love is

Slow down
You’re moving too fast
Can’t you find the beat?
Pick your feet up
You know it won’t last
If only you could see yourself
Caught up, 
What’s there to prove
Who’re you trying to be?
Just a big man
Caught in a loop
What else is there to see?

You’ll get dressed up
Jacket and tails
Ready for the day
Like a magpie, caught in the nude
You hide yourself away
You’ll put one foot forward
Then you take it back
Restless feet on a broken track

You’re a loud-mouth
Say what you hear
And speak before you think
Put your ear that close to the ground
And dirt will soil you speech
Won’t you let us in
And we’ll watch you cry
Smiling broadly with arms held wide

Don’t mind me, I’ll mind myself
Don’t Mind me, I’ll mind myself
Don’t you go
No don’t you go
Don’t you, don’t you, don’t you

When you gunna 
When you gunna 
When you gunna 
When you going to learn?
How long, how long, until you learn?
I said when you gunna
When you gunna
Learn?

I won’t

Slow down
You’re moving too fast
Can’t you find the beat?
Pick your feet up
You know it won’t last
If only you could see yourself
Caught up, 
What’s there to prove
Who’re you trying to be?
Just a big man
Caught in a loop
What else is there to see?

Don't Mind Me

They told me to dream big
So I dreamt of the sun
And its gravitational pull
its gravitational pull
And all the life it breathes into everything
And its gravitational pull

How can I ensure when I am fully grown
That the Milky Way will make room 
So that I can ever-glow?

How can I be centre of this universe 
(I know I know)
How can I be anything but disappointed?

(I can't match up, I can't match up, to any of my own...)

And now it's reached the stage
Where I am jealous of birds
and their levitational art
and their levitational art
And how their lightest hearts
Can help them reach the stars
and their levitational artistry

How can I ensure when I am dead and gone
That my legacy endures
My reputation twinkles on?
How, when I explode, can I shoot eight million eons?
Then how can I get further still?

(and yeah, I think I was about 16 when I learnt about the greeks and mythology and how they could talk mostly deeply about what it means to be a human being... and I learnt about Icarus and all of those events before his fall.... and I wondered... and I kept wondering.... and I kept wondering... how he must've felt in those few minutes just before he melted... to be the highest one... to be the highest one... to be the closest one...)

Icarus

From the new album 'Seven for A Secret' out 01/01/20 in all digital stores. The first track on the album, it sets the scene for what's to come. The album tells the tale of two murders from the perspectives of the people involved. Produced by Gavin Monaghan (The Blinders, The C33's, Pagans SOH)and recorded at Magic Garden Studio, Wolverhampton. The album started life as a rough screen play which spawned a song and grew into a full album. Next stop is a graphic novel and/or video clip if funds allow.

Seven For A Secret

THE BALLAD OF BROKEN BONES

The Ballad Of Broken Bones

Burden

Fire On At Me - T.E.G


“I’m on my way home, I want to get back,
I know it feels good, and I don’t wanna leave”

Fire on at me if you don’t have more to say
Come and get it cos you’ve got nothing to stay
You and I both know that it don’t work this way
Put your gun down, I put mine down, put them away
We both got reasons but these reasons aren’t enough
It’s my vendetta and yours, you just had it rough
But things are changing and though I know it’s tough
Put your gun down, I put mine down, put them away

Here we are -  away from home
I close my eyes I visualise 
I wanna go home
Not on your own - but fighting solo
The end is near, I feel the fear
I wanna go home

We take our prisoners who just want their release
They say they’re sorry but we’re not easy to please
Their freedom’s ours and we’ll sort ‘em out with ease
Put your gun down, I put mine down, put them away
Any action will so make you pay the price
So no decision is without sacrifice
Just ‘cos I pity doesn’t mean I am nice
Put your gun down, I put mine down, put them away

Feel these tears, they’re filled with rage
Fell off my horse I’ve got back up
I wanna go home
Don’t pretend, that your not scared
This war right here’s been on years
I wanna go home

Don’t think you can stop me
I am trying and succeeding 
You cannot see me I’m invincible
And I stop stop wanna come home

Fire On At Me

Lyrics

V1
paint me in colours that you want to see
I'll be the person that you wanted to know before you met me
and I'll hold your hand until my blood runs blue
I'll be the person that you wanted to know, the girl you once knew

Pre Chorus
oooooh what am I to do
call me crazy but I'm just a little stuck on you

Chorus 
oh I'd mould my brain to fit with yours
and I'd sing this song until my lungs are sore
oh I'm sorry if you're bored of questions 
and second guessing
oh I'm hopelessly asking for more
cause I'm not sure I love you really means that much at all

V2
tell, tell me something is on your mind 
cause I can't talk for the two of us and I know something isn't quite right
and is this how I'm meant to spend my time
oh staring into dead eyes wondering if I cross your mind

Pre Chorus
oooh what am I to do
call me crazy but I guess I gave it all for you

Chorus

Outro
oooooh what am I to do
call me crazy but I just can't give it all for you

ALEX CARROLL- Paint Me In Colours

She wants you to listen to her
Talk about her petty concerns
When it comes to those of your own
Her face is stuck in her phone

They want you to all clap along
To their trite, derivative songs
When it comes to watch other acts
They've all packed up and gone home

Maaate!
Mate!
Maaaaaate!?
Mert!!!

He will only listen to bands
That have Fantano rubbing his hands
All dressed up like an extra
in a Michel Gondry film

Vanity activist
Womanising feminist
Meat eating vegan
Robotic, office punk

Maate!!
MAAAATE!
Meat???
Maaaaaaaate!

You've gone and done it wrong

Maaate

Heart Food for Hard Times is out on Friday 15th May 2020. 

Track credits: 
Nealo - Vocals & Lyrics
Adam Garrett - Music 
Uly - Trumpet
Adam Shanahan - Production 
Marcin Ciszczon at Diffusion Lab - Mixing & Mastering


For more information please contact: 
Sheena Madden
+353 87 245 8046
sheena@amplifyagency.ie

HEART FOOD FOR HARD TIMES

French Sunset

The Light

Here Comes The Love

Baby Brain

Babababo

Place Is Here is a wonderfully textured call to arms for people to seize the day led by resplendent piano hooks and the velvety tones of former Faithless singer Harry Collier. A feel good summer anthem all the way, demonstrating The Hempolics can execute Indie Pop to match their vaunted Reggae numbers.

Kiss, Cuddle & Torture Volume 2

Place Is Here

110% (#1)

Knocking On Heaven´s Door

Produced by George Fitzgibbon

Alfie Indra is a 23-year-old musician from Ed Sheeran’s neighbouring Suffolk town of Debenham. Now based in Norwich and working with notorious YouTuber JaackMaate, Indra is riding the crest of a creative wave after his own YouTube channel has gained over 37k subscribers and 2 million views since July through his 80s remixes of YouTuber diss tracks. After a six-month break from official original releases, the much-teased ‘All My Friends Are Depressed’ has finally arrived, after he posted a short clip of it in January to much excitement from his fans.

Citing Blossoms and Parcels as two of his biggest overall musical influences, on his latest release Indra has said:
“After talking about my struggles with OCD and intrusive thoughts on JaackMaate’s Happy Hour podcast, I had hundreds of messages from a mix friends and other podcast listeners saying that they had been struggling too. It made me realise that everyone has some sort of battle going on in their head, but the majority of people don’t talk about it, so everybody ends up feeling like an outcast. Writing ’All My Friends Are Depressed’ was my way of processing this by opening up a blunt and honest conversation about it.”

Indra has received strong radio backing from Fresh on the Net’s Tom Robinson, Co-Op Radio and BBC Introducing, spot plays on BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music, and Spotify playlist backing from AlexRainbird and 2012 X Factor Poland winner Dawid Podsiadlo. With a sold-out hometown show at Ipswich's Smokehouse and an appearance on Latitude’s Huw Stephens-curated Lake Stage already behind him, Indra looks set to build on his 1.5 Million Spotify streams with more music to follow in early 2021, after spending 2020 mostly writing and building his aforementioned YouTube channel.

ALEX CARROLL - still asleep

Beats, synths, keys and a flute. A FluteCake

Cassava Groove Temple

Cassava Groove Temple - FluteCake

Written by Moira Smiley & Seamus Egan in response to ongoing, violent displays of white supremacy across the United States, this song asks how we can go on... singing, making things, making art and truly listening to each other.

ALEX CARROLL - still asleep

Lexie Carroll