Alternative but eclectic - February's playlist will expand as new tracks are released throughout the month. Your new favourite band is probably here so you really should take the time to listen!

Feb 17 - New tracks for indie lovers

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 27th Feb: 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/batch231

*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 231

03 20 13

That long-awaited (well, for me anyway) fourth Meursault album is finally on the fairly immediate horizon. It will be released on CD and vinyl on the 27th February, will be called I Will Kill Again, and Klopfgeist is the first single from it.

After a relatively big rock sound on 2012’s Something For the Weakened collapsed in on itself to be channelled into the tense, darkly enigmatic characters of Supermoon, before being in turn shrugged off like a chrysalis as the reborn Meursault emerged, this song feels as emblematic of the new album as any could be.

It’s got that classic Meursault turn of phrase, an elusive narrative and a vague sense of foreboding - all common aesthetic threads which pull the album together.

Neil himself says this about the song:
“Frank Sinatra died in Los Angeles on May 14th, 1998. His final words were "I’m losing”. 
The rest is just ghosts and metronomes.”

UPCOMING LIVE DATES (full band shows):
3rd February (Celtic Connections) – The Hug and Pint, Glasgow (Sold Out)
25th February (Song, by Toad's Granfalloon) – Summerhall, Edinburgh (Tickets)
4th March - The Lexington, London (Tickets)

Some nice things people said about comeback EP Simple is Good:
"a remarkable return - literate and emotionally engrossing" – Clash
"Like questions from a child drilling through the hardest of hearts and demanding our self-reflection" 
- Gold Flake Paint
“It continues the epic and grand nature of the 2012 album Something For the Weakened, but somehow manages to feel thoughtful and graceful in nature.” - TVBomb

Meursault - Klopfgeist

RIP Records Introduces Volume 1:2

Released as part of the RIP Records Introduces Series
Pre-order the 12" Vinyl compilation here:
http://riprecords.bigcartel.com/product/rip-introduces-volume-one-12-vinyl-compilation

Facebook.com/recordinpeace
Twitter.com/riprecordings
www.recordinpeace.com

Matadors - Trumpet Of Conscience

A Lightbulb Mind, the new single of Perth outfit Our Man In Berlin touches on several themes but primarily discusses the methamphetamine addiction and related psychosis of a close family member of singer Haydn Mansell. A much more honest and organic offering than what has come before, A Lightbulb Mind is a driving, swirling, and cinematic slice of dream rock.

The band has had considerable success in achieving national airplay for their past 7 singles , widespread internet acclaim via top taste making blogs, and an ever expanding live reputation which has seen the band play countless festival stages both at home and abroad. But rather than wasting time listing all of that in detail for you to read OMiB would much rather you spend the next 3 minutes and 54 seconds of your life listening to the song. Enjoy!

A Lightbulb Mind

Byron Hare present Mary Efalump, as recorded in the kitchen of a Redditch semi.

Mary Efalump Single

Mary Efalump

Written by The Britanys in Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
Produced, Mixed & Mastered By Jonathan Schenke (a.k.a) 'The Fixer' - https://jonathanschenke.com/

Spotify- http://spoti.fi/2kpjCxr
iTunes- http://apple.co/2kx7gWw
Soundcloud- http://bit.ly/2k42ZpS

www.facebook.com/thebritanys/
www.instagram.com/thebritanys/
www.twitter.com/thebritanys

Take It All

"Let The Sun Shine" is the first solo track released by Dan Hughes.

Facebook: www.facebook.com/DanHughesUK
Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/DanHughesUK
Twitter: www.twitter.com/DanHughesUK

Let The Sun Shine

Annie Hardy "Rules" coming in April 2017 on Full Psycho/American Primitive Records (CD & Digital, US) Yeah Right! Records (vinyl, Canada) and Post/Pop Records (Cassette, UK)

Released by:
Full Psycho/American Primitive

Album release date:
7 April 2017

RULES (MP3)

Annie Hardy "Shadow Mode"

Intergalactic Number 5

Written and recorded only a week before release, Lion House is the new single from Si Connelly. His first new music to be released since the release of his debut album Youth // War // Joy on West One Music in 2016. Lion House marks the exciting beginning of a completely new artistic and prolific phase.
credits
Released: February 10, 2017 
Track Credits: 

Written by Si Connelly. 
Produced & Mixed by Si Connelly. 
Recorded at Lion House, Brighton, England. 
Mastering: Si Connelly. 
All instruments performed by Si Connelly. 

Cover Art by Emily Hunter (aged 3). 

In loving memory of John Connelly Snr. 

All rights owned by Dead Rabbit Recordings Co.

Lyrics:

Lion House
(Si Connelly)

Sitting on my own again
Talking to the animals 
Catdog and the Dinosaurs 
Twitching and a scratching
Avoiding eye contact

Built myself a lion house
So I can be king
Got myself stuck in a mousetrap
If you all drown I can sail out in a boat made of paper
And I can count on my fingers and when i run out I can count on yours

I wanna fly so high
Under the black sky
In a beautiful lion house

The captain and the king
They fell off the earth
They’d been living in a matchstick town
Ever since it burned 
Bodies turned to ivory 
Pure white attack
And the silence brought it all back    

I wanna fly so high
Under the black sky
In a beautiful lion house
In a beautiful lion house

Buy on Bandcamp: https://siconnellymusic.bandcamp.com/releases

Lion House

My Dead Space

Little Teapot

well i’m sitting behind my desk in washington dc

and everyone on cable news is yelling at me 

cuz there’s only one place that i wanna go 

that’s down underneath the florida sun in mar a lago 

So call up the tower and tell my wife and son 

have the taxpayers fuel of the air force one 

put in place the press embargo 

gotta be left alone to fun and sun in mar a lago 

Ma - A Lago I hope the ocean don’t swallow 

Like some some say they know if will some day 

Mar -A Lago I hope the ocean don’t swallow 

Like some say they know it will some day 


The senators and congressmen  telling me what to do 

How am I supposed to know if any of its true

Sure I like to get on the mic and gin up the crowd

But I'd rather be on the tee where those folks aren't allowed 

Ma - A Lago I hope the ocean don’t swallow 

Like some some say they know if will some day 

Mar -A Lago I hope the ocean don’t swallow 

Like some say they know it will some day 

And it makes me feel like I got a real big penis

Playing golf with retired baseball stars 

And it makes me feel like I got a real big penis

Everything is gold

Even the toilet bowls

Mar a lago!

And on Saturdaynight when Melanie's fast asleep

I tip toe to the only room where I really wanna be

Crawling to beautiful king size bed 

and snuggle in between my loves the Vanka and Jarred

And the Sunday comes and my boss tells me we gotta go back 

Home  to the haunted mansion where pretty soon I'm gonna crack 

But for now I guess I play my part in this puppet show

And keep my eye on the weekend where I can go to mar a lago

Trump Songs 

mar a lago

Chelzzz leaves no survivors on new single, 'Problem'.  (2017)

Legally released on 3/20/17 to all music sharing/streaming platforms.
https://itun.es/i67t7Bz
https://youtu.be/fz8M8v9cVdg
https://open.spotify.com/album/4LCQD070tVxLSI9dabDA0O
https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/chelzzz3
http://www.deezer.com/us/album/15785682
https://www.amazon.com/Problem-Explicit-Chelzzz/dp/B06XWPZW4N

Blog Posts for 'Problem':
http://emergingindiebands.com/chelzzz-problem-single-review/
http://www.my2know.com/chelzzz-problem/

Problem | Chelzzz

Our E.P. "Our Very First E.P." is available as a C.D. or to download on Bandcamp - https://sad-eyedpuffins.bandcamp.com/album/our-very-first-e-p

Intergalactic Number 5

Sad-Eyed Puffins