April 17

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 3rd April: 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/batch235

*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 235

Check It Out!:Vol 4.(REPOST THIS LIST)

The sweetest sweet seasoning of steeze you've ever seen. 

An Evening with Little Mister Tea Cup (DEMO)

'Autumn's Fountain' by Nya Shelley
From the album 'Tumbled Out By Night' by Nya Shelley
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Written by Sonya Chenery and James Edge
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Sonya Chenery - Vocals
James Edge - Guitar, Bass
Harvey Lord - Electric Guitar,
Avvon Chambers - Drums
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Produced by James Edge and Sonya Chenery 
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Recorded by James Edge
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Mixed by Tom Aitkenhead and James Edge
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Mastered by Ade Emsley at Table of Tone
(c) and (p) 2015 Slanting Mounted Head Records

Autumn's Fountain

Patrick Delamere – Lead Guitars, Bass, Lead Vocals

Oliver Cobbin – Rhythm Guitar, Production, Mixing

Adam Thraves – Drums, Production, Mixing

Jack Kenny - Keyboards

Written by: Patrick Delamere


It's a Heavy Life

Way it goes features on the debut LP My Songs About Life Mid Crisis by Reverse Family, which will be released on Record Store Day 2017.

My Songs About Life Mid Crisis 

Way it goes

Way It Goes

Click the Buy link to download the Growth EP

Human Music

The Perfect Pop Co Op 12" remix of Way it Goes, remixed by The Beautiful Wolf

PerfectPop - WAY IT GOES AT THE DISCO Master

From 'The Gathering' released 29th March via Cambrian Records.

Pre-order from here - https://tobyhay.bandcamp.com/album/the-gathering-2

The Gathering

Toby Hay - Mayfair At Rhayader 1927

You Made Your Bed EP

Lie With You

Ships

BETHAN LEES - Water & Wine

Israel Carter

Israel Carter- Flashback

Debut track by Barcelona/Dorset based dream pop duo Tiny Arrows

THE ANTIDOTE
Take me back to the shore
I don't need anything anymore
I'm a bird, we're the stars
and we feel everything with a beating heart

So far away, out on a limb
don't catch me, I'm falling

Take me back to the start
I don't need anything anymore
Never knew life was an art
I am the antidote, I am the spark

I am the antidote! I am the antidote!

Take me back to the start
I was a compass point without a star
Never knew life was an art
I am the antidote, I am the spark

Take me back to the shore
I don't need anything anymore...

The Antidote

DISTRACTIONS NO FX

Ever had that dream where an insect invades the ear and sets up home to mercilessly tease and torment thereon in? If so, a form of similar reality is about to be unleashed as the Reverse Family step forward to announce themselves with a sound which trespasses and festers in the psyche. The difference is that this is set to be the most welcome invasion of ears as it crawls with relish into the imagination.

Reverse Family is the solo project of Dermot Illogical, aided by a fluid band of collaborators from time to time, this debut offering is a lo-fi exploration into an experimental DIY web of sounds and flavours which is hard to pin down but certainly embraces everything from post punk and noise pop to indie and old school punk.  

The first song we came up against was Alchopoppers on Fast Food, a brief and gentle yet deviously engaging song which instantly entices thoughts of seventies bands like Swell Maps and The Shapes but with the melodic natures of The Freshies. It is captivating stuff even with a drop into calmer waters which does not quite connect with personal tastes. We are not sure of the album's track order but if this is to be the opener it provides a potent start though the brilliant Way It Goes is an even bigger pull. Carrying an early Adam and The Ants feel to its magnetic stroll, the song is pure addiction with a funk revelry bubbling under its pop punk surface, Dermot as vocally mischievous as the guitar led sounds around him. 

There is great variety to the songs too; Bit Slits for example flirting with the senses through keys which manage to sound like the brass flames of Essential Logic while guitar and vocals veer towards the Nikki Sudden school of discord blessed minimalistic seduction while Electronic 6 entangles portentous keys and winy guitars with fuzzy vocals for a Dalek I Love You/Artery scented melancholy. It is fair to say that Dermot wears influences openly yet each song develops its own distinct character under often familiar hues.

Hand of God has a darker and meatier nature to its predacious swing, contagious hooks and a great grumbling bassline aligning with melodic enterprise for a proposal which swiftly grips ears and appetite; a success just as easily won by the lively pop bounce of One Eyed, a seemingly early Television Personalities seeded encounter and the hypnotic I Can Sense Their Watching Eyes. This too has a flavour of Dirk Wears White Sox to it but with funky beats and another irresistible post punk guitar jangle in its off kilter dub teased shuffle, the track blossoming into another unique proposition within My Songs About Life Mid Crisis.

Other tracks in the mix are Business or Pleasure, a delicious song which sounds like Weezer soaping The Piranhas while recording it all in the bath, The Legend of Pierre with its haunting keys wrapped sultry croon, and Odd Mix Newgates, a seductive magnetic monotone tone spawned track surely inspired by Mark E. Smith.

The collection of tracks are completed by Higher Power with plaintive melodies and dour yet emotionally suggestive vocals and the outstanding May Number 10 Dream which again hints at bands like The Fall, Marc Riley and The Creepers, and The Mekons, as well as the criminally catchy Sods Law. Hips and feet beware as even in its low key nature it will have you swinging in an instant.

There are so many highlights offered by the Reverse Family songs; each track connecting with an ever eager hunger for punk fuelled, post punk spiced imagination. Plastic Punks epitomises this perfectly, its Fire Engines toned melodic jangle and Spizzenergi devilry sheer temptation again emerging as something specific to Reverse Family.

With a tongue in cheek lining to the lyrical reflection shaping songs which spreads into the music itself, Reverse Family is a beguiling adventure with a nod to the past and a grip on an imagination as fresh as it is, well quite simply a touch loco.

PerfectPop - WAY IT GOES AT THE DISCO Master

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