Megan Landry

A Song A Day: 8 - 14 October 2016

Hey There Music Lover,

You've stumbled upon the October 2016 "50 Song Mix" with some awesome artists hand-picked by the "Digital Earbuds Music Blog" authors. Please enjoy, but most important, go to the artists' Soundcloud Pages, Websites, Social Links, and your favorite online music store to purchase their music!  

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Who's Hot 50 Mix Oct 2016

10 10 16

The Transparent Era

Any artist is welcome to send us ONE track via freshonthenet.co.uk anytime between Monday lunchtime and Thursday morning - and all our moderators, including Tom Robinson, will listen to every track*. This is our full inbox from the week beginning Mon 17th October: from mid-day on Friday 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/batch215

*Note: we don't listen again to tunes we've already heard, and automatically block artists who send more than one track a week (our moderators can manage to work their way through 150+ tunes overnight, but 300+ would be impossible!)

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 215

Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 215 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 Sharon Pearce  - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves215

Fresh Faves Batch 215

Rollercoaster

Rollercoaster (How To Dress Well Remix)

Stream STILLS album on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3G09XvrytMDaL6WxdRJFIq

******  LYRICS  ******
Reservations for two
On the dark side of the moon
On the sharp side of you 
I sharpen my blues

Reservations for twelve
Disciples of dust on my shelf
I've already lost myself
And I love you like hell like hell

So tell me was life grand
And on your way out
Did you shake her hand

Reservations for three
Under the tallest damn tree
You can bring the clouds to their knees
You're the lock and the key

Reservations for none
Once we're all packed up and done
You can close your eyes with the sun
'Cause babe it's been fun
It's been fun

So tell me was life grand
And on your way out
Did you shake her hand

Reservations

Stream STILLS album on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3G09XvrytMDaL6WxdRJFIq

******  LYRICS  ******
Where is the chase
And how do I cut to it, cut to it

Where is the chase
And how do I cut to it, cut to it
Don’t play these games
Don’t hate the player
Say that I’m a sinner

You said I’d never cut you off, but
Snip with the scissors
Saw you at the Twisted Lizard
You put a funny face on
‘Cause you didn’t see it coming
Until I set my demons running
And you’re a weed in the garden
 
You’re a snake in the city
Life is going to slap you silly
And you can say that I warned you
Trouble with your temper
Talk is elemental

Where is the chase
And how do I cut to it, cut to it
Don’t play these games
Don’t hate the player
Say that I’m a sinner

They say that a generation is only a product of the one that came before it
And you can wipe off the bar code on the back of your neck and no disrespect but
I bet you didn’t see it coming
The numbers in your veins are driving you insane
And I can see it in your eyes you’re hungry
For a little satisfaction, human interaction

Where is the chase
And how do I cut to it, cut to it
Don’t play these games
Don’t hate the player
Say that I’m a sinner

You see me I’m falling
I think the sandman’s calling
‘Cause money and power
Go hand in hand together

Where is the chase
And how do I cut to it, cut to it
Don’t play these games
Don’t hate the player
Say that I’m a sinner

How do I cut to it…

Cut To It

Stream STILLS album on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3G09XvrytMDaL6WxdRJFIq

*** Lyrics ***
We weren't lovers
Baby I was butter, you were the knife
And I loved the knife
But I loved my life at one time too
You know the grapes will be wine soon
I watch the sky as she bleeds blue
You know the wind will still ask about you

I’m at the end of your fork, I’m at the end of your fork
Oh Lord I hope you like pork oh Lord
OoooooOoooooooOOoooooooo
I’m at the end of my faith,  I’m at the end of my faith
Sweet babe, I hope you like steak, sweet babe, sweet

Make your cake, eat it too
Ahhhh Ahhhhh aaa
Life is lonely maybe chew it slowly
Take a big bite, no appetite

Paint the walls white to tell them they’re red
Paint them with life to tell them they’re dead
Grape to the wine, like wheat to the bread
Brains to the mind like heart to the head

I’m at the end of your fork, I’m at the end of your fork
Oh Lord I hope you like pork oh Lord
OoooooOoooooooOOoooooooo
I’m at the end of my faith,  I’m at the end of my faith
Sweet babe, I hope you like steak, sweet babe, hope you like steak

I hope you like cake

Fork

Stream STILLS album on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3G09XvrytMDaL6WxdRJFIq

*** Lyrics ***
He put a bullet to your mouth 
The devil on his red leather couch 
He's got a nice red car and a big red house 
A picture of you sitting up on the shelf 
He said he's got a couple friends down south
You melt because he said he's going to 
Take you down south 
Down south 

CHORUS
Human leather hanging on a leopard 
Sixteen sheep 
With a plan to kill the shepherd 
I'm on my way 
All my days, 
Are a wicked race 

VERSE TWO
Leave the key under the mat 
Because they say that karma killed the cat 
And a broken bone in a bright red cast 
Is an accident if you tell yourself that
You hate the way he laughs … at that 
Suddenly you hate the way he laughs 

CHORUS 
Ooooooo Ahhhhhhh 
Human leather hanging on a leopard 
Sixteen sheep 
With a plan to kill the shepherd 
I'm on my way 
All my days, 
Are a wicked race
Human leather hanging on a leopard 
Sixteen sheep 
With a plan to kill the shepherd 
I'm on my way 
All my days, 
Are a wicked race 

BRIDGE/OUTRO *guitar solo*

Human Leather

Stream STILLS album on Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/3G09XvrytMDaL6WxdRJFIq

*** Lyrics ***
And the weather stirs so nicely
From the twenty-second balcony
And the children never listen
When the midnight air is hungry

CHORUS
Paper drives you crazy, baby
Ah-ah ah-ah
Acting like it's gravy, don't play me
Nah-ah nah-ah
* GUITAR SOLO *
Paper drives you crazy, baby
Ah-ah ah-ah

VERSE 2
Money green aroma
Dangle that diploma
Sign the dotted-line
Black tuxedos told us

CHORUS
Paper drives you crazy, baby
Ah-ah ah-ah
Acting like it's gravy, don't play me
Nah-ah nah-ah
* GUITAR SOLO *
Paper drives you crazy, baby
Ah-ah ah-ah

Paper drives you crazy, baby
Ah-ah ah-ah

Paper

Get the EP on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/PottyMouthEP  

Stream on Spotify here: http://open.spotify.com/track/0BpMMpnOQbyLRimdCQYzb3

Instagram: instagram.com/pottymouthband
Twitter: twitter.com/pottymouthmass
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pottymouthgirls

Long Haul

I'd be there if I could

This is the debut EP from Crystal Eyes, out on Shake! records

Keep The Faith

Ayo! Recorded in Suffern, NY - mixed and mastered by Gil Israel aka @inspiraling
Enjoy! 
Pic: https://www.pinterest.com/AlienLadyy/trippy/

Wonder

Hey Heartbreaker

Apple/iTunes:
smarturl.it/TalkTooMuch

Spotify:
smarturl.it/TalkTooMuchSp

VEVO:
smarturl.it/TalkTooMuchAudio

Talk Too Much

Spotify

Rework of the tracks from our debut album Eat Sleep Mom Dad

Surfing In The Nectar

The second album by Sand (Sam Healy of North Atlantic Oscillation). Released 30 September 2016. Download from usual places, CD and download from http://www.sandtheband.com/

03 Commitment To The Bit

Your Cool

One Song, Every Month, til the day i die ._ .

I am Providence

Stream 'Questions on the Cliff' on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/album/0wTlvuHDYEvlC2kX1h8YM9

***Lyrics***
Kicking the gravel that cut the curb from the cattle,
and in the shadows I wait, to catch a snake on the ladder.
Rather the vultures are patient because they know that I’m weak,
and they’ll be circling above until my blood’s on their beaks.

Twenty four karats got people talking like parrots,
and we inherit the motive to chase the top of the totem.
I told them wealth isn’t relative when you toss in the grave,
and in the end you’ll just be sleeping in the bed that you made.

Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff.
Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff.

Granted the damage we sip the blood of the planet,
without a panic we wait, to cut the cake with a splatter.
Rather the salary swinging is bringing men to their knees,
or the brutality is taking people’s lives in the streets.

Under the thunder of the American wonder.
Where global hunger was born to cut the corn by the quarter
and hord the borders in order to make a buck from a foreigner,
and shut the reporters in corners with oceans warmer and warmer

Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff.
Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff.
Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff.
Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff.

Kicking my courtesy when the bitches are burning me,
and I’m bleeding the burgundy but I don’t take it personally.

If the chickens are chirping me I just throw them a smile.
(If the chickens are chirping me I just throw them a smile)

keyboard solo

Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff
Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff
Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff
Now I wonder if I gotta keep my questions on the cliff

Questions on the Cliff

Float

From the forthcoming album "In Love With A Ghost", by Daniel Land.  Pre-order the album now at https://danielland.bandcamp.com/album/in-love-with-a-ghost

www.danielland.co.uk
www.facebook.com/daniellandmusic
www.danielland.bandcamp.com

New York Boogie-Woogie

Empire Records

Bright Lights

Careless Love

Hold me

Basic Desire - Hold Me

We're writing, recording, and releasing a new song every month in 2016. This is September's song. 

Released 28th September 2016.

The world is a gumball 
Put it in your mouth 
Always seems so sweet 
Until the taste wears out 
Until the taste wears out 
Until the taste wears out 

Alone in the fairground 
Feeding the machines 
A prize you didn't want 
A game you'll never win 
And in the dark something 
That wants to keep you in 

What do you say when they ask where you're going? 
What if your words just turn into nothing? 
I was right there, other side of the mirror 
How do you sleep, are you tired, are you dreaming now? 

The girl is a monster 
Here in the sideshow 
The last of her kind 
Full of fear and hope 
And ideas of her own 
Penny for a throw 
This is what you chose 

What do you say when they ask where you're going? 
What if your words just turn into nothing? 
I was right there, other side of the mirror 
How do you sleep, are you tired, are you dreaming now? 

What do you say when they ask what you wanted? 
Trying so hard but it all turns to nothing 
I was right there, staring out from the mirror 
How do you sleep, are you tired, are you dreaming now? 

'Cause mine is a bed of nails 
Mine is a bed of nails

---------------------------------
Music by Heavy Heart 
Producer - Patrick Fitzroy 
Studio Engineer - Josh Alberts 
Assistant Engineer - Henry Cornish 

© 2016 Heavy Heart

The World Is A Gumball

Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/track/0HuR6jN61pYpi09v2ITU0q

Pre-Order 'Dead/Enough Nothing' out 25/11/16 on Ra-Ra Rok Records: goo.gl/3NyJpn

Artwork by Jordan Gray http://www.jordangray.co.uk

Recorded by Eric Tormey at Barnroom Studios

Dead/Enough Nothing

Dead

Porn

01 Braindead

'Fires' is taken from the 'To Being Free' EP, which will be released on the 18th November 2016 via Trellis Records and is available to pre-order now.

Pre-order link: http://smarturl.it/ToBeingFree-iTunes

www.facebook.com/mathunsley
www.twitter.com/hunsleymat
www.instagram.com/hunsleymat/

www.trellismusic.co.uk
www.twitter.com/trellismusicuk

To Being Free

Fires

Leonheart was inspired by factory workers protests of the 1820/ 30s. Amongst the many acts of protest,  factories workers fought against the installation of clocks regulating their time and their lives. 

Smash Up The Clocks is a song, video and accompanying art works from artist /musician LeonheArt www.leonheartmusic.com and producer Tigersonic www.tigersonic.com

We are chuffed to the max that smashup the clocks was  selected for the top 5 fresh faves and was played by Tom Robinson 3 times on his Introducing Show on BBC Radio 6!

30:10:16

SMASH UP THE CLOCKS

Before the Days of Lincoln is written by Joe DeFilippo and performed by the R.J. Phillips Band, a group of Baltimore studio musicians. Joe DeFilippo: vocals, bass and acoustic guitar; Bill Phelan: pedal steel, electric and 12 string guitar ; Patrick McAvinue: fiddle;  Bill Pratt: drums, keyboard. Produced & recorded by: Bill Pratt @ the Bratt Studio, Baltimore,MD
Pictured: Dennis Banks in front of Mt. Rushmore in the Black Hills

Before The Days Of Lincoln

ALESSI JOINS SUPER FAN FOR RELEASE OF NEW SINGLE 'WIVES' OUT 13.01.17

PRE-ORDER: http://superfan99.bigcartel.com/product/alessi-wives-8-lathe-cut-vinyl

And so another 12 months has passed at Super Fan 99 and we're closing out the year with a release which is a little special for us. Londoner Alessi Laurent Marke is an artist we've been a fan of and followed for some years so when the chance arrived to work with her we didn't hesitate. We are delighted to be releasing her new single 'Wives' ahead of a new full length which is set to be released early next year. 

Her cosy folk pop has evolved over the years from it's humble bedroom beginnings and these days has more in common with Cocteau Twins or Charlotte Gainsbourg than the somewhat lazy Joanna Newsom comparisons of old. From uploading home recordings to Myspace to working with Bright Eyes in Nebraska and touring with Jenny Lewis and M.Ward it's been a long and winding road for Alessi which has no doubt shaped her songs. Wives sounds like a very British tale being told in a California desert setting. It's a beautifully produced and expertly executed taster from the new record which will no doubt excite fans both old and new.

Wives will be backed by another new album track 'DLD' and will be released on 8" lathe cut vinyl. As always each copy is hand cut by our friends in Tuscon Arizona and will be limited to one copy per household with only 40 available worldwide. Keep your eyes peeled for pre-order and an eerie video directed by our cousins at £100 Pop Vids.

"The understated arrangements suggest you're listening to a woman with impeccable taste" MOJO

"Singing like a cross between Hope Sandoval and Bjork, Laurent-Marke has made a record of deceptive simplicity" BBC

"It takes several plays to appreciate all the small touches that make each delicate piece" THE GUARDIAN

"The old school songwriting and airy, summery production will leave you utterly spellbound" CLASH

For further information, interview and feature requests please contact amanda@freemanpr.net and sam@freemanpr.net