Any artist is welcome to send us a track via freshonthenet.co.uk anytime between Monday lunchtime and Thursday morning (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 22nd March: 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/batch400

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 that have been previously submitted and tracks from banned artists will also be removed.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 400

Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 400 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 Marina Florance - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves400

Fresh Faves: Batch 400

'King of the Mountain' is the first single taken from 
Gizelle Smith's forthcoming album and it's a powerful rendition of a Kate Bush classic! 

Listen now: GizelleSmith.lnk.to/KingOfTheMountain

King of the Mountain

I don't want to

Song by Arwen


prod. blindforlove AKA Frank Moses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzGlmXeB-NE

I Don't Want To

On the 26th of March BBC Horizons artists Codewalkers will be releasing their new single ‘The Way We Go’. Bringing their energetic fusion of rap and reggae along with electronic influences, the track was written remotely during lockdown. Inspired by the circumstances, ‘The Way We Go’ is a wink and a nod to the many people in the music industry who've given them helpful advice, and reminded them, when it comes down to it, to focus on making music.

The Way We Go

Cronin Bank Of Love Single Live Transmission Records 2021.WAV

A song about the uncompromising mercy of the natural world and inspired by the incredible true story of Indonesian lamplighter Aldi Novel Adilang. In 2018 he was swept out to sea when a storm knocked his floating wooden hut from its mooring, and spent 49 days adrift the ocean before being rescued by a passing vessel.

My Boy

Ten ships go passing by, oh deep water and salty brine. 
Oh keeper oh keeper light become clear
No stars or maps will lead you here

Cool water under my skin, cool water let me in.
Oh bitter winds wrap around my feet and lay me down in the deep

I’m a boy trapped in the waves, I’m a boy longing to be saved
I’m a boy cast out at sea, by my boat and my moon I’ll be free 
By my boat and my moon I’ll be free.

Cold hands are slow to move, small and lost beneath the moon
Like morning birds follow the sun, let these feet return to their home

I’m a boy trapped in the waves, I’m a boy longing to be saved
I’m a boy cast out at sea, by my boat and y moon I’ll be free 
By my boat and my moon I’ll be free.

My Boy

Imagine Marvin Gaye...Isley Brothers...Daryl Hall...Curtis Mayfield...and you'll be in the right ballpark.....Super Soul vocals over an 'old school' arrangement given a modern feel!!! Perfect Cool Summer groove

SO HUNG UP (full lenghth version)  Ramon/Beauchamp

https://dayton.fanlink.to/angelinblackfanlink

Angelinblack.

From the forthcoming album - "The Man from S.A.D" -  out on Bandcamp on the 23rd April 2021

SAD MAN_The Vulcan

Taken from the album 'Running On The Spot' 
Recorded at Running Frog Studios Windsor May 2004 
Written by Denny Lloyd  
Produced By Neil Thom

What Am I Doing?

9. I NAME MY MIND AND THROW IT TREATS, HOPING IT WILL BECOME TRACTABLE (Music: Roberts/Read / Lyrics: Nagel)

every year it’s the same performance when i sit before the holy trinity / they test my “insight” and my current conformance; i.e. my acquired ability / to kick the ball through shifting goalposts, smile politely when they patronise / because i know when they say “be honest”, they’re not inviting me to speak my mind // (it makes me want to) / take drugs, get mad, abscond, be bad, just sleep / be loved, not judged, self- sabotage, repeat // they discuss my latest diagnoses, prescribe another programme of recovery / when they provoke me with the keys to liberty, i’m expected to feel nothing / they refuse to acknowledge that the system is broken and how it contributes to people getting “stuck” / the elephant in the room, institutional r-word? everyone knows they don’t give a - // (it makes me want to) / take drugs, get mad, abscond, be bad, just sleep / be loved, not judged, self-sabotage, repeat // (it makes me want to) / take drugs, get mad, abscond, be bad, just sleep / raise hell, not tell when something’s bothering me / fight back, change tack, question reality / take notes on those who keep taking notes on me / kick doors, stay calm, gnaw off my arm and scream / be held, get space, get out of this place, repeat

MING NAGEL – vocals / JON READ – keyboards, trumpet / ALAN ROBERTS – guitars / JAMIE VARLEY – Moog bass / DAVE TIDMARSH – drums / HARI TRIVEDI – tabla / LEE SPREADBURY – Moog Sub 37

I Name My Mind And Throw It Treats, Hoping It Will Become Tractable

Project Blackbird consists of five UK-based musicians: vocalist Ming Nagel (originally from the USA), guitarist Alan Roberts, multi-instrumentalist Jamie Varley, drummer Eddie Dublin, and multi-instrumentalist Jon Read, former trumpet player for The Specials. This "extraordinary" band, as BBC's Tom Robinson has described them, is rich with atmospheric groove stories that draw equally upon intellect and emotion. "Imagine a party at Ronnie Scott’s," one fan suggests, "where Sade, Björk, Jeff Beck, and David Byrne meet Portishead and then go for a late night curry to exchange ideas…sublime”. The band's third full-length album, True Names, has just been released as a CD, 12" double gatefold vinyl, and digital recording via Bandcamp.

See also BLUEBIRD PARADE.