ECLECTIC PICKS - 2025

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 5th May 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/batch568

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.

Full Inbox: Batch 568

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 568

Weekly Wave

Welsh Folk Songs Summer 2025

Nina Simone meets The Black Keys in a jam with Portishead?
...maybe you can do a better job defining our sound 💕

Resolution

it's a twisty love song ❤️

"HE" features heavily my little Casio pt-82 and its hypnotic samba beats. Written, recorded and produced between London & Glasgow, this is the first of three tracks I'll be releasing this year.

Thanks for listening & hope you enjoy,

Rochelle x

Lyrics:

He is like hair
Soft, smooth & everywhere 
He is a tree
Rooted, tall & climbable on 

He holds me 
In a trance, while I dance
He eclipses all I see
He builds a bridge
Then runs from me ...

He wrote down my favourite quote
On a little yellow posit note
And placed it underneath my pillow
… low, low, low, low, low, low …

He wrote down my favourite quote
On a little yellow posit note
And placed it underneath me 

He’s beating on my heart like a 
Timp, timp, timp, timp, timp, ti
Timpani

He’s like sweetpea potpourri 
Living in my mind with a master key
Beating on my heart like a timpani
Yipee! Yipee!

He’s beating on my heart like a 
Timp, timp, timp, timp, timp, ti
Timpani

Oh, 
He’s beating on my heart like a 
Timp, timp, timp, timp, timp, ti
Timpani

WISH I NEVER STAYED

"Wha-Gwaan" - designed to be a wake up call response to the seemingly increasing presence of social injustice in the world today.  The hypnotic dub-funk groove is brought to the boiing point by the legendary Frank Benbini ,(Fun Loving Criminals/UB40/Uncle Frank), who makes a guest appearance on drums & hype vocals.

WHA-GWAAN! by Tomás Doncker, featuring Frank Benbini

Holding it down in Mexico

Pre-save first single 'I'm In Bed': https://cominguproses.lnk.to/iminbed

Follow Coming Up Roses:
Website: https://www.cominguprosesband.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cominguprosessg/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cominguprosessg/
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/cominguprosessg/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cominguprosessg

#ComingUpRoses

Tired

Gweddi’r Arglwydd

I Said

I'm in space
I'm floating through the stars
I'm in space
I think that one is Mars
I'm in space
I feel a little sick
I'm in space
Space travel is shit

Why did I think it was a good idea to give all of my money to those venture capitalists?
Who sent us up in this capsule. it looked so good in the brochure
Why did I think it was a good idea to give all of my life savings to that dodgy travel agency?

I'm in space
I'm floating through the vacuum
I'm in space
There's no echo in a vacuum
I'm in space
Oooo ah oo

Why did I think it was a good idea to give all of my money to that new space travel start up?
Who sent us up in this rocket, it looked so good in the advert
I thought space would be a wonderful place where we could escape from all the hecticness of Earth life and
I thought a room on Hotel Moon would make everybody say what a cool holiday you had
We should have just gone to Cornwall

Are we there yet, Daddy?
Are we there yet, Daddy?

Are we there yet, Daddy?
Are we there yet, Daddy?
We want to go to the park,
We want to go on the waterslide, Daddy

Are we there yet, Daddy?
Are we there yet, Daddy?
They ask me where we’re going but I don’t know where we are
I look outside the window and all I see are stars

Are we there yet, Daddy?
Are we there yet, Daddy?
Are we there yet, Daddy?
We want to go to the beach!
Do they have beaches on the moon?
I don’t know we’ll find out when we get there
It says in the brochure they have beaches
Or at least they have virtual beaches or photos of beaches
Are we there yet, Daddy?
Are we there yet, Daddy?
We want to go on the slide, we want an Ice-cream, Daddy
“Here, take this colouring in book, you can colour in the stars and the aliens as we’re floating around”
“But daddy, whenever I touch it with my crayon, the page floats to the other side of the capsule, Daddy”
Why did I think it was a good idea to take my family on the first ever lunar package holiday for families, this was a terrible idea, we should have just gone to Bermo,
Why did I think it was a good idea to take my family on the first ever commercial lunar holiday for families, this was a terrible idea, we should have just gone to Orkney!

Are we there yet, Daddy?
Are we there yet, Daddy?
Are we there yet, Daddy?
Are we there yet, Daddy?
Are we there yet, Daddy?
Are we there yet, Daddy?
Are we there yet, are we there yet?
Are we there yet, Daddy?
Are we there yet, Daddy?
We’re in space!

I'm in Space

Stream NAVE now:
https://ffm.to/godswaitingroom

A rare B-side I wrote that is yet to be officially released via major platforms. 

Coming soon.

Cloned Syndrome

This song vividly yet tenderly captures the difficulty of taking steps into a loving relationship after brutal behaviour from others has destroyed your sense of self. In a powerful blow to the heart, To Be Known offers the hope that everyone can learn to be valued and seen even if life has taught them otherwise until now.

Producer: Phil Saatchi

Bite Me!

To Be Known

Written about Cumbria, Tulips Pink is about coming home for Spring; about feeling lost and yearning to be back.

Tulips Pink

Deflating doll
Bouncing around
In every direction
I'm fine
Gasping for air
I'm running out
I am slowly running out
I'm fine

Sometimes I want to explode
Into a million pieces
Sometimes I want to explode
Into a million pieces

Will you glue me
Will you glue me back
Together
Together
Will you glue me
Will you glue me back
Together
Together
Together
Will you glue me
Will you glue me back
Together

I'm fine

Imma Do Me

Riot Act

Release Date: 4th June 2025
www.honeymotel.co.uk

If You Didn't Exist

Sad yet inspirational, this anti-bullying anthem combines acoustic guitar with orchestral strings in an epic singersongwriter style. Born from Amelie's experience of being bullied at school, she hopes to raise awareness of the issue, and inspire others who have been or are going through tough times.

Made It Through (Unplugged Remix)

'Tabula Rasa' explores the the itch to shake off the past and start again with a blank slate. It's the third single from Bethany's upcoming EP The Story I Breathe.

Tabula Rasa

A bittersweet love letter to the late writers, poets, and songwriters who have kept me company and made me feel seen. Written and recorded in a day in our North London home.

Written by Rosie Miles & Yaatri
Produced by Yaatri & Rebel Elements
Mixed by Rebel Elements
Mastered by Rare Tone Mastering

Rosie Miles: Vocals, Lyrics
Yaatri: Guitar, Bass, Fender Rhodes, Synths
Sam Hobbs: Drums, Programming

Cover photo: Felix Bertulis-Webb
Graphic Design: Johnny Lodder

Letters to a Lost Poet

Hymn (In memoriam Alexei Navalny)

Hymn (In memoriam Alexei Navalny) [Choral Mix]

To run on Skye, you have to pay attention. Climb, run, jump, skip, run, jump, run, climb, climb some more, run, jump, then pause to take in the scenery.
Copyright 2025 Brian James McDonald (ASCAP)
Copyright 2025 Hoon Toons Publishing (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved Worldwide

Running On Skye (for Piano)

Things we’ve lost, sad song from Wales.

Star That's Flying

Summer is Coming in

Poets have sung of love countless times, but the most powerful chapter is the pain of separation.

Fly to You

Cerddor, cyfansoddwr, arlunydd, a digrifwr (ar adegau) o Fetws-y-coed, sydd bellach yn byw ym Machynlleth yw Liam Rickard a.k.a. Worldwide Welshman.
Mae'r WWW yn perfformio gyda band dychmygol neu gyda band go iawn. Gyda'i chymysgedd amlieithog o tragi-comic parti-bangars ac eiliadau o melancoli, mae WWW a'i griw (o dan nifer i enwau gwahanol) wedi bod yn difyrru gynulleidfaoedd ar draws Ewrop a thu hwnt ers tua 2007

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Liam Rickard (Worldwide Welshman) is a singer-songwriter, folk-singer, artist and occasional comedian from Betws-y-Coed, now based in Machynlleth. WWW often performs with a band. When they're not available, he performs with an imaginary band. WWW and his friends (under various guises) have been performing their multi-lingual mix of tragic-comic party anthems and folk-pop ballads across Europe and beyond since about 2007.