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 DATE GOES HERE: 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/batch558

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 558

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 558

This is a previously unheard track that was the B-side to the single 'I Don't Want To Dance' that was due to be released just weeks after the band split up back in 2008.... We Are Back!

Beautiful Inside

Mandi: Friulian farewell; attributed variously as a diminution of “m'arcomandi” (“I recommend”), or the Latin “manus dei” (“hand of God”), or the Italian mani di deo (roughly, “may you stay in the hands of God”).

Mandi is the debut album from UK-based Canadian saxophonist David Zucchi, which explores a collection of reel-to-reels recorded by his father’s family in 1959 on a Geloso G. 255 recording device. Elaborations on and reconstructions of the words, songs, and music of these tapes, along with the glitches inherent in the recording process and the deterioration of the reels form the basis of the musical material.

Full album available here - https://peopleplacesrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mandi

Salve Regina

The third record from Oxford's BarrelHaus.

Tracks 1, 3 & 5 written by Marc Challans
Tracks 2 & 4 written by Ian Mitchell

Guitars, bass, drums, percussion, vocals, backing vocals, and production by Marc Challans.

Guitars, bass, vocals, and backing vocals by Ian Mitchell.

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Marc Challans. Recorded at Glass House Studios, Cumnor, and BH Studios in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.

All tracks performed by BarrelHaus.

Special thanks to Grace and Alice.

All rights reserved.

Black Tar

you never know how fast life can change... one second everything is there and the next it can all be gone. time is fragile.

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fragile

Lay Me Down

Deep Down (Radio Edit)

Some good news in a bad world. Like the return of a prodigal son, we're back with a new track called, rather predictably, "Prodigal Son". Hopefully this is the start on a 'single per month' strategy for 2025, but like all January gym memberships maybe we'll have run out fo steam by February. See you on the treadmill....

Prodigal Son

Windows and Mirrors

'Gathering Storm' is the first track to be released from Christof's forthcoming release 'Requiem For A Lost World' (String Quartet 1)

Released to mark Earth Day 2025 'Requiem For A Lost World' is Christof's first String Quartet. This non-traditional String Quartet features a live string quartet recording of the written piece that has been slowed down and routed through effects to give a haunting and mesmerising sound. 

The first three movements reflect on the catastrophic state of the climate and the environment (and the journey to get to this point) while the final movement asks whether there is still time to save our world. 

By using slowed down recordings (something which Christof has explored previously on releases 'Until I Take My Final Breath' and the score to the feature film 'Messalina's Offer') a unique sound quality is acheieved where you can hear the nuance of the performers playing, producing a very textured sound. 

Presave at: https://tinyurl.com/CDQuartet1
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Gathering Storm

post punk

Tell it to my heart

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