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 556

‘Effboy’ features a relentless acoustic guitar and heavy beats accented by rolling sub-bass underpin the track. It examines how ‘everyday’ misogyny provides a cover and permission for the kind of deep misogyny that leads men to hurt and assault and exploit and coerce women.

Effboy

The Flying Guitar Player

'Hairline' streaming everywhere 9th August, from the forthcoming album Happy For Now – out 20th September.

Hairline

Oh Just Go

California sounds real good and green this time of year
Take those kids on to the other side, you have nothin to fear
Girl after all you’ve been through
There’s no one who would blame you
Freedom now is yours, but is it really true...(‘cause)
CHORUS:
There’s the girls you teach on Sunday
And the man who needs you on Monday
Let’s think this through and through and then let’s pray
I know there’s gonna be a sacrifice
But just think of all those broken lives
If no one else but the boys in the back seat

Ruth held fast by Naomi’s side and just wouldn’t let go
Now’s your chance to measure up to our childhood Bible hero
In a hundred years from now
What history of yours will be written down
Good and bad, we leave our legacies lying around...(for the)
[CHORUS]

Don’t let fear be what guides you
Or fearlessness blind you
Only love will survive you 
So pull off the highway
And turn back east
Another dream awaits you
Just imagine what that might be
[Instrumental]

There’s a girl crying on Sunday
And a man helpless on Monday
And they’ve thought of nothing but you since you went away
Oh to touch just one heart tonight
Is the dream you’ve followed all your life
Still wondrin bout the right decision
Just look upon those smiles
On the faces of the boys in the back seat

©2008 Happy-Sad Face Music

IF NO ONE ELSE

It's good to think about it for a little longer

Going somewhere3

Complicated Mathematics

Debut single "Nothing" releases 5/2/25 on all streaming platforms.

Nothing

Where angels go to sleep

Evaporate (Demo)

Forked Money & Out Of Tine

One Last Dine

Любовь — это ветер в закрытом окне

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Unbound Strength (Original Mix)

Defiantly without genre Lovely Assistant explore new Lounge alongside bygone bits of the New Wave. A quartet of Annie (Keys, Vox), Kieran, (Bass, Vox), Dave (Guitar), and Matt (Drums); four self-taught musicians dedicated to finding out how songs work and saying something about the world as it was. They met through the Newcastle music scene in 2017 and decided to start playing small gigs around the North-East and writing in eachother’s houses, eventualy recording with producer Will Thorneycroft (Dawdler, The Early Purple, Fax Machine) in an old vicarage that he shared with Dave. 

The vinyl release of their acclaimed 2020 debut album, Greetings From The Pre-Wave, was crowdfunded and released on Newcastle label, Treetrunk Records. After playing the Generator Live Festival and Featuring on Big Screen TV, they retreated to a farmhouse in the midlands countryside where they could live cheaply and write a follow-up record. With support from The Glasshouse and a loan of equipment from Justin Lockey they converted the hosue into a recording studio and tracked their second album Fuck Love over two weeks.

The financial support of Help Musicians and Generator funded the album mix with Will Thorneycroft at North Parade Studio as well as mastering by J.J. Golden (Black Pumas, Cate Le Bon, Soundgarden) in Ventura Calinfornia. Through the support of Generator, three of the songs were executive produced by Thom Lewis (Sam Fender).

Fuck Love streams on the 28 February 2025 alongside a hometown album launch show and tour of Northern England.

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