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Jan '23 Mixtape

Jan/Feb 2023

january 2023 mixtape

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 16 Jan 2023: 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/batch473

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.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 473

hello, it's me again
i know you didn't want to see me but pretend
with your eyes wide awake at night
face is getting thinner it's just not right
but you know
you're responsible for this

i'm back again
all i ever wanted was a friend

but I know it's hard
as you feel my flying through your mind like crystal shards
with your chest tight, awake at night
breath is getting quicker it's fight or flight
and you know
you're responsible for this

i'm back again
all i ever wanted was a friend

hello old friend
i know you want me gone but this will never end
with your eyes wide awake at night
face is getting thinner it's just not right
is it chemical?
you're responsible

i'm back again
all i ever wanted was a friend

hello old friend
so we meet again

Hello Friend

Anywhere / Everywhere

Keeping Me Up All Night

Giving The World Away

The Rhythm

Preach

2009

Gigi's Recovery

Return My Head

Being Funny In A Foreign Language

Looking For Somebody (To Love)

"Looking Around"
Written, performed, produced, and directed by Benjamin Michael Leit
Background vocals by Elizabeth Hart Ely
Drums by Benjamin Cole Grummon
Mix/master by Avi Abrams
Additional vocals by Kenneth "Cookie" Boosin
"Leit Smiley" designed by Juliet Davidson
Cover photography by Benjamin Michael Leit

Looking Around

Modernise

Modernise - Radio Edit

Wonderland

See, I'm Sorry

Loveless

Stalemate

Lyrics:

walked out the door
lied on the floor
it drags on alone
but I feel at home

Nicotine always in my bloodstream
Nicotine always in my bloodstream
Nicotine always in my bloodstream
makes it's way to my heat, I feel so fine

pure bliss everyday
burnt my lips in every way
I hiss and I cry
I need you in my life

Nicotine always in my bloodstream
Nicotine always in my bloodstream
Nicotine always in my bloodstream
heart, mind, soul, body, take my lungs

choking myself
choking myself
choking myself
choking myself

Nicotine

stop - wait a minute
i know it's over but we're living in it
some things take a while to leave
if i escape, whenever that may be
i'll meet you under the church that leans
and i'll tell you
yeah i'll tell you

i like it when you're around

so, take me back to the start
before the days of the skipping heart
the city life is a work of art
but now i'm bursting into tiny parts
go, figure out what you need
i'll meet you here in a year or three
and i'll tell you
yeah i'll tell you

i like it when you're around

why is my head so loud
when it won't even make a sound?
why is my head so loud
when it won't even make a sound?
is there a way you can tell me what this is all about?
why is my head so loud?
i like it when you’re

i like it when you're around

written by stay lunar
mixed by alex quinn
mastered by robin schmidt (24-96 mastering)

I Like It When You're Around

New album "I Want to Open" comes out in Summer 2023

Call your mother up and ask her how to make that dish from your childhood
And I will scrounge the neighborhood
For wild herbs that taste as good as your memory
If you'll let me

And I've been the one to wash your feet in the bathtub of the apartment
I will keep the water warm
And we will sleep the whole night through this sickness
And be in another place

It'll take more, take more, take more, take more
It'll take more than this to be good

Getting tired of waking up in the same bed we went to sleep in
The world is foaming at the mouth
And dreaming's the only way to leave the bedroom
And be in another place

It'll take more, take more, take more, take more
Will it take more than this to be good?
credits

Take More

Don't Talk

Taken from the upcoming EP, 'Come Alive'.

Artwork: Iris Legendre 
https://www.irislegendre.com/

Co-production: Mark Gage

Lyrics: 
Close-knit, detailed, what’s entailed?  Asking for a pardon now 
Desperate, taken, dizzy, shaken “Undone loving”, who had said?

“Don’t forget this time in the future,  You’ll be laughing, on the verge of a tear,  I’ll be elsewhere” 
“Don’t forget this time in the future,  You’ll be wishing, I were near”

Open, honest and transparent . A picture showing muck and grime.  Desperate, taken, dizzy, shaken  “Undone loving”, who had said?

Laughter

Featuring voice recordings of my cousin Sean, who passed away last year. 

Mixed & mastered by Conor Amos

Cholly - Winter Scarf

Written, recorded, produced and mixed by me
Artwork by Chanida Areewatanasombat (@chubby.nida)

Lyrics:
I don't wanna go to the party
I would rather sit inside my bedroom
And try, and try, and try not to think of you

I'm not gonna pretend you were sorry
Wouldn't make the pain feel better anyways
So I'll try, I'll try, I'll try to move on

Thought I could be loved until I met you
You did things to me you said you'd never do
I just wanna take back all the love I gave to you

Thought I was in love 
I was jumping through hoops
Trying to please you
How I wish I knew
I just wanna take back all of me I gave to you

I can't believe that I cared so much about what you thought of me
Starving just to hear you call me baby
Didn't think you'd love to see me fall
I wish I never met you at all

How could one be so evil
Almost lost faith in people after your grand upheaval
And it's so confusing cause I, cause I, cause I
I hate you, I love you
It sucks that I still do

Thought I could be loved until I met you
You did things to me you said you'd never do
I just wanna take back all the love I gave to you

Thought I was in love
I was jumping through hoops
Trying to please you
How I wish I knew
I just wanna take back all of me I gave to you

I Just Wanna

New single version of "Headlock" from debut Things That Go's eponymous debut album (out now !). Album available here - https://thingsthatgo.bandcamp.com/album/things-that-go

Things That Go

Headlock (Single Edit)

Powerful story of a special moment... Super expressive sax from Steve Peck!

MARI feat. St3v3L33

From the Ursa Minor EP marsicans.ffm.to/ursaminorep

5th Day Of Spring

listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7jXCcmyqmPE5yxLvS2u0qD

• lyrics •

your life got away from you
so i'll dream of all the things you need to get you through
it's not all vitamin D and summer breeze
they say the bad things come in threes
this is not your fight

now i'm holding you back
holding you back
holding
from your indecision
your indecision

i want to run away with you
escape from all the light-polluted city hue
i'll tell you things i'd like you to know
the world doesn't spin as the TV shows
this is not your fight

now i'm holding you back
holding you back
holding
from your indecision
it's your decision

the red lights are turning green
but you're flickering in a colour in-between

from your indecision
this is your decision
from your indecision
it's your decision

i'm holding you back
holding you back
holding

Not Your Fight

sad songs on small stages

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6kqPs71d5mSIQ5XYc4VRpK?si=vnq1tSEcTXuJ60_ojUjz_A