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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 27th January 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/batch556

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 556

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

A thoughtful "fuck off" to haters everywhere

Bandcamp

Sally Farther

Dedicated to my beautiful wife, may we grow old and die together 🙏🙌 . She is happy and that’s what matters to me! Hope others find enjoyment from it too…
I love her dearly and she for some weird reasons loves me! So this for her. She didn’t want a cliche love song. So I wrote a letter to her and out came this song. Enjoy!

Love letter to my partner

Tonight

This track is for those chasing a dreams. They cannot stop your success, only you can when you quit.

Success

VA&D - Money

Well, here's something very different for me - Here's a light and quirky acoustic #folk / #singersongwriter version of my sad song called 'Promises', with the amazing 3VSound (Ava Suzanne) on vocals.

I wanted the simplest (and hopefully most effective) string arrangement and quirky counterpoint vocals, and I think I got it. :-)
This track is out for a nervous spin to see if anyone likes it.
 
Updated and released in Jan 2025.

I'll Try Till I Die

Promises - feat. 3V3Sound (Acoustic Version)

Complicated Mathematics

Release date: 14/2/25

Written, performed, recorded & mixed by Samuel Robinson

Mastered by John Elleson-Hartley @ https://www.musiklab.co.uk/

Lyrics:

Give us a quote, before you make it
This time we’re listening, this time we’ll fake it
Your Nan is famous, you could be too
Just give us something, we’ll make a martyr out of you

Hello Mr. Bullet, hello Mrs. Bomb
No need to tell me where you come from
Dead souls sign their name on your shell
Ironic it’s the living who are burning in hell

Nobody told me self defence
Meant carpet bombing kids in tents

Same war crime, different headline

THERE. IS. NO. RED. LINE.

One man’s hostage is another man’s prisoner
I don’t understand, I think I need an interpreter

Hey Siri, what’s ethnic cleansing?

Look at those smiles
Look where they live
Can’t blame a child
For what Dad did
Two sides to every genocide
Let’s take a look at the best bits, shall we?

THERE. IS. NO. RED. LINE.

THERE IS NO RED LINE

A song about wondering if a past love still remembers you..
Una canción sobre si ella/el todavía se acuerda de ti..

LA LEXXION

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

Nothing

UNHAPPINESS

Superficially meditative and 'ambient', but conjuring alternating emotions of relaxation and tension, darkness and light.

Paramedic Jukebox Club

The Hierophant In The Room

A Joyful jaunty handpan tune evoking the joy of a sunny May afternoon. This tune bounces through melodic shifts and different time signatures to create a fun little celebration of spring! 

Spring Hope

No Deal Disco is the solo project of big southern softie, Sam Paul Robinson, who writes snarky guitar-driven songs about all the things that piss on his biscuits – namely wars, bigots and job hunting. Sam describes himself as a “passionate songwriter but reluctant frontman”. His lyrics are laced with nefarious left-wing concepts such as empathy, accountability and hope.

THERE IS NO RED LINE

NO DEAL DISCO