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Song finds week 2018/48

Any artist is welcome to send us a 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 Monday, 26 November: from midday 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/batch306

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. You will be able to resubmit the track in future.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 306

My Guitar Drips Country

Supernaw

Andalusia

H Y H U

London is Changing

"Neon Vision" by SOUL ISLAND / From the upcoming album 'Shards'.

@soulisland | www.loyaltoyourdreams.com/artist/soul-island

On @music-week: http://www.musicweek.com/music-week-presents/read/music-week-presents-soul-island/074384

Neon Vision

SOUL ISLAND - Neon Vision

Dance, it is said, is the hidden language of the soul, but Monique Barry has given it a new linguistic identity by becoming the voice of dance itself. It all happens in her newest single, which, appropriately enough, is called 'Dance'. It's the fifth and latest in a series of singles by Monique that's slated to culminate in a completed album entitled HAAK. 

From single to single, Monique has been exploring the journey from innocence into experience, building on the theme with each song. She enters this new chapter of her musical search by singing in a soothing foxtrot lilt, with the vocal narrative set in a dance club where her protagonist goes to escape a failing romance. There the atmosphere of comfortable chaos with “no cares at all” is highlighted by crisp percussion, music box twinkling (played on a celeste and serving as the voice of disco mirror balls), and synthesizer tones that hover and soar. Gradually as the hunger for escape evolves into a search for order and safety, Monique lifts the lyrics to the next level with her moody, waltzing delivery, and the music gathers into a whirling cloud of sound, suggesting both safety and release, shadow and light. 

Hailed for her “hypnotic mystique” (eye magazine) and “dynamic vocal range” (The Independent Weekly), Monique Barry has consistently demonstrated a willingness to experiment with musical forms and the aesthetic knowhow to back up her creative instincts. Her previous albums—Moody (1998), Tripping (2003), Carbon (2009), and Wake (2013)—have established a critically appreciated affinity for musical dynamism and innovation. Always drawing on a wide range of experiential and cultural influences, Monique’s inspiration for 'Dance' evolved from a section of Joseph Boyden’s novel Through Black Spruce in which a DJ plays mainstream dance music with native rhythms mixed in as a way of communicating. 

Also making musical waves on 'Dance' are some of Monique’s most trusted and vibrant collaborators: Marc Merilainen on guitar, Alisdair Jones on bass, Emma Campbell on vocals and  Michael Philip Wojewoda, co-producer, drums and mix.

HAAK

Dance

Second track from The Disciples 'Flood' EP - available on Bandcamp: https://thedisciplesuk.bandcamp.com/album/flood-ep

Exodus

Nervous Breakdown

Sleep In The Day

Debut tune from London four-piece Carcrash Casino.

Music video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip3fkZYQlZk

Find out more here: www.carcrashcasino.com

Words & Music by Jon Hunt

Jon Hunt: Vocals, guitar, percussion
Andy Adams: Guitar, percussion
Simon Hudson: Bass guitar
Huw James: Drums

℗&© Carcrash Casino 2018

Don't Make Me Laugh

The Onyx

Thin Disguise

December 26

Imposter Syndrome

Brophy’s Law release their all time live favourite live track ”The Bachelor” , a strong traditional and authentic folk punk classic sound with an alternative edge. As the John Peel centre in the UK appropiatly describes Brophy’s Law, ”Where the Pogues meet the Clash”.
Brophy says he wrote this at the age of 18 in the shoes of  Shane McGowen heavily influenced by growing up watching the Pogues performing in their glory days on the London scene. They sang about the drinking holes of London and more drinking, a great recipe for this bar room classic ”The Bachelor” a song that paints a picture of a working class guy who’s surrenders his life to the devil in the jar , avoids marriage and drinks himself insane.

The Bachelor

Thanks for stopping by! I'm working on my 5th album, HAAK.  Releasing it single by single in the order the songs will appear on the finished product.  Would love you to follow along on the journey.