~ new monthly playlist!! November 2020 ~

recently started up monthly playlists here... added to regularly, a mix of new tracks from my favourite artists and exciting new discoveries, mostly made via submissions to my music blog (http://www.coolmusicandthings.co.uk/) - a chance to share things that I enjoy but might not get round to writing a post about :)

for something a bit more heavily curated, check out the blog's main 2020 Spotify playlist which I update weekly: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3cUmjDhCtwBrilcJMCb4vq?si=oKSawPpcR1KLjrPLrW6jiw

acoustic/folk/chilled playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/47kVuG60PJokywkb74tBob?si=-sTHeYorTqWvFGqCmPvMZA

girls allowed: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3GNrMJ29veOfSwdybKq9pO?si=UIoUFUvfS1uuExlwDor3SQ

enjoy!

cool music and things: November 2020

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 7th December 2020: 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/batch389

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.

All Christmas tracks have been saved to a special playlist that will go out before the big day.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 389

This Is Sandtimer

Easy Listening

Collaboration with my friend, @vegandude1111

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Discography

Dream Sequence [Kendall Miles x I eat Plants for a living]

it's a fixed race, hey, I'll save my breath for the next

Listen on Spotify at: https://open.spotify.com/track/6023CVd4DiJf3x29rjmNcW
And all other stores via: https://song.link/gb/i/1176941952

Free download at: https://sandtimermusic.bandcamp.com/track/get-on-your-skates

This is 'Get On Your Skates', from our second EP, Mackerel, released December 1st, 2016

Robert Sword - Vocals, Guitar, Percussion
Simon Thomas - Vocals, Guitar, Bass 

Written by Robert Sword 
Produced and arranged by Robert Sword and Simon Thomas 
Mixed by Giles Thomas 
Mastered by Terry Waker at Tonalex Mastering

Mackerel

Get On Your Skates

Wildflower Blues

Little Black Bear (Blue Rooms Version)

From Ross: I wanted to write ‘The Day The World Went Away’ by NIN. I was reading White Noise by Don DeLillo so lots of the lyrics are inspired by that. The line ‘I can taste the bleach on your breath’ is about that scene in Mad Men where Don Draper comes home and washing his mouth out with Bleach to cover up the taste of the woman he’s been out with.

Marigold Moon

a day of the most peculiar kind

'209' by Sandtimer

Simon Thomas - Vocals, Guitar, Bass 
Robert Sword - Vocals, Guitar, Percussion, Piano 
Rachel Thomas - Vocals 
Sophie Sword - Additional vocals 

Written by Simon Thomas 
Produced and arranged by Robert Sword and Simon Thomas 
Mixed by Giles Thomas 
Mastered by Terry Waker at Tonalex Mastering 
Cover artwork by Alex Jackson 
Cover design by William Thomas

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Lyrics

A day of the most peculiar kind, 
I never did mind- I'm too far down the line. 
All my sorrow on the gate 
powering out this bad state. 

Gone back to the county line 
caught in a Peugeot 209 
His motivation is not yet called upon, 
he's a victim of his own crime. 

I came to the turning down the drive 
but never arrived, turned straight around. 
Cold feet, cold on the ground, 
footprints could never be found. 

Gone back to the county line 
caught in a Peugeot 209 
His motivation is not yet called upon, 
he's a victim of his own crime.

Peugeot 209

to lie on the waves and float on the ocean: the simplest of motions

'Dormant' by Sandtimer

Simon Thomas - Vocals, Guitar, Euphonium 
Robert Sword - Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Percussion 
Rachel Thomas - Vocals 

Written by Simon Thomas 
Produced and arranged by Robert Sword and Simon Thomas 
Mixed by Giles Thomas 
Mastered by Terry Waker at Tonalex Mastering 
Cover artwork by Simon Thomas 
Cover design by William Thomas

Dormant

even through the dark, dark, dark days

'What's On Your Mind' by Sandtimer

Robert Sword: Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Ukulele, Bass, Percussion 
Simon Thomas: Vocals, Guitar
Rachel Thomas: Vocals

Written by Robert Sword 
Produced & arranged by Robert Sword & Simon Thomas 
Mixed by Giles Thomas & Robert Sword
Mastered by Terry Waker at Tonalex Mastering
Cover artwork by Simon Thomas
Cover design by William Thomas
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Lyrics

Even through the dark, dark, dark days
there was never a doubt how this would end,
there was never an 'if', just a 'when'.
But now I've moved on some way
look back over all that time again-
is it a waste that time I've spent?
But it's already over, it's already gone.

Are we just slaves to a system we create?
Are we just slaves to a system?
'I guess I thought that my whole, whole, whole life
Look back and I wonder if it's just me-
am I the one who isn't free?'
But it's already over, it's already gone.

Are we just slaves to a system we create?
Are we just slaves to a system?
I guess we just move back, back, back and forth
between the extremities of thought:
are we the captors or the caught?
But it's already over, it's already gone.
It's already over, it's already gone.

What's On Your Mind

Cannot Be, Whatsoever

No Plans

did he sell his soul so he could buy it back, somewhere down the track

'Three Cars' by Sandtimer
Stream/purchase: https://song.link/gb/i/1522202368
Bandcamp: https://sandtimermusic.bandcamp.com/album/three-cars-single

Mastered by Terry Waker at Tonalex Mastering

Cover artwork by Simon Thomas, Photini Knoyle and William Thomas

Three Cars

Stream 'Just' 
ffm.to/blackstar-just

'The Bends' Out Dec 11th on Color Study
ffm.to/-thebends

Can't get the stink off
He's been hanging around for days
Comes like a comet
Suckered you but not your friends

One day he'll get to you
And teach you how to be a holy cow

You do it to yourself, you do
And that's what really hurts
Is you do it to yourself, just you
You and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself

Don't get my sympathy, hanging out the fifteenth floor
You've changed the locks three times
He still comes reeling through the door
One day I'll get to you
And teach you how to get to purest hell

You do it to yourself you do
And that's what really hurts
Is you do it to yourself, just you
You and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself

You do it to yourself you do
And that's what really hurts
Is you do it to yourself just you
You and no-one else
You do it to yourself
You do it to yourself

Just

Vanilla (Stairwell Version)

As the World Caves In

As the World Caves In (Acoustic)

July

July (Bedroom Session)

'Yongo / 四五' by Sandtimer

Stream/purchase: https://song.link/gb/i/1538748025
Bandcamp: https://sandtimermusic.bandcamp.com/album/yongo-canadian-boating-song
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sandtimermusic

Mastered by Terry Waker at Tonalex Mastering

Cover artwork by Simon Thomas, Photini Knoyle and William Thomas

Yongo / Canadian Boating Song

Yongo / 四五

Named after one of many watercourses I explored growing up in West Lancs.... I often wonder who Jane was, if anyone..... a resurrected oldie.

Runnel and Cut

Fine Jane (2020)

Moving reckless, low and deep
I lost somebody I thought I'd keep
Close your secrets over me
No rehearsal, no retreat
So problematic, so incomplete
The flesh is willing, the spirit is weak
It's too expensive for something so cheap
Moving reckless, moving deep

Manifest good life and no danger
You don't recognise I'm no stranger
My life is outside it left with her, it's left with her

Moving reckless, low and deep
I lost somebody I thought I'd keep
Close your secrets over me
No rehearsal, no retreat
So problematic, so incomplete
Sirens crying themselves to sleep
It's too aggressive for something so weak
Moving reckless, moving deep

You don't recognise I'm no stranger
My life is outside it left with her, it's left with her

Moving Reckless (Single Edit)

(Take me back to) Honolulu

‘All That you Dream’ is about encouraging someone to follow their dreams and passions, regardless of any pitfalls that life throws at them along the way.  This is a song about hope and a reminder that anything you want is possible if you follow your heart and keep heading for the stars.

All That You Dream

All That U Dream - BexX Feat. Lady Nade

have more faith in humanity

Listen to and follow us on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/2gT0XcBApcekilU3OI01Ys
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