October 2021 - best new alternative, punk and indie tracks

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 25th October: 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/batch423

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.

Christmas songs and the like are also not eligible for the Listening Post, although we will collect these into a playlist that will be published on 24 December.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 423

Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 423 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 Mark Toal - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves423

Fresh Faves: Batch 423

Indie/Rock Playlist

Anybody Else But Me

The debut album from bobsled team. 
Including the singles This Pink Moon, Drive and You're so Cool.
Available on limited edition coloured vinyl.

Hey Kid

Texis

An Acre Lost

Strangers

Helen Murray's debut release 'Thank You' was released on the 17th September 2021. 

Cork-born and Dublin based alternative r&b soul artist, songwriter, producer and vocalist Helen Murray is making waves with her debut release ‘Thank You’ since it’s release on the 17th September. On the day of the release she charted at No.1 on the iTunes charts. Helen has also received national and regional airplay on RedFm, 98Fm, RTE Pulse, RTE 2XM, WLRFm, and more.

For fans of: Lianne La Havas, Kaytranada, Jessie Ware, Laura Mvula, Nao, Erykah Badu, Solange.

Thank You

Ekta

The songs on Things That I Confuse pretty much wrote themselves in a frenzy. Still, they sound more Spunsugar than ever. It's still as timeless and nostalgic as it is fresh. The four songs consist of two more poplike tracks and two that have kept the more noisy aggressive sound that has become a staple of the band. Now there's an added layer of an icy lo-fi feel. References to giallo films and Japanese movie monsters work to tell stories of close relationships, trauma and regret that keeps one up at night. Every second is though trough, there's no unnecessary fluff. Every note serves a purpose on this EP.

Spunsugar - Hatchet

It's All Really Kind of Amazing

Big Man Says Slappydoo

Aliens

Swine Tax - Kestrel of Sticking Dreams (2021)

Music & lyrics by Swine Tax
Recorded & mixed by Chris Mcmanus, Newcastle upon Tyne
Produced by Swine Tax, Newcastle upon Tyne
Mastered by Jason Mitchell
Artwork by Chenzo & Hazel

Kestrel Of Sticking Dreams

Illusory Walls

Afraid to Die

Taken from the forthcoming album of the same name, out 21/01/22. Pre-order limited edition LP, CD here: https://orcd.co/archivematerial

Archive Material

Silverbacks - Archive Material

The Jazz Butcher – Time

My hair’s all wrong. My time ain’t long.
Fishy go to heaven, get along, get along.

I’m having too much fun to get anything done.
Leave me be. I’m not hurting anyone.
I took a long weekend in the psychedelic shack
And when you cross that bridge you ain’t never coming back.
I‘ve got scars and stripes and burns,
I‘ve got the law of diminishing returns.
I‘ve got a one-way ticket to a pit of Council lime
I’ve barely got a minute till I’m in it
But for you I’ve got time.
A little bit of time.

Luminous. Leguminous. Salubrious. Lugubrious.

Time’s running out. The money’s running out.
You don’t need me to tell you what it’s all about.
Time’s running out. The money’s running out.
Oh, baby!

A small boy who just watched his cousin being shot
Is being pushed down a mine coz we’ve got to have the lithium.
Forced labour, privatised jails.
Yeah – and all that that entails.
Tik tok. Never mind. You’re gonna live forever.
Yeah – in a razor wire dormitory,
Working on the long shift, doing what you’re told to,
Doing what you’re told to, 
Doing what we used to call time.
(It’s murder.)

Respectable. Bespectacled. Electable. Detestable.

Time’s running out. The money’s running out.
You don’t need me to tell you what it’s all about.
Time’s running out. The money’s running out.
Oh, baby!

I’ve overdone the underside and now I am undone.
There’s no one here to see, though, cos I don’t see anyone.
And if I hadn’t told you that, you never would have known,
Unless I told you secretly when we were all alone.
Things are running slow. Things are running low.
You can have one more but then we gotta go.
One more before the bottle. One more before the mast.
One more shot for Davy Jones, better make it fast.

Time’s running out. The money’s running out.
You don’t need me to tell you what it’s all about.
Time’s running out. The money’s running out.
Oh, baby!

The Jazz Butcher – Time

To Be Closer

To Be Closer (Acoustic)

Charlie IO

Blue Sky / Grey Heaven

False Positive

Marooned available to stream/buy everywhere here - https://ffm.to/okjrgma

Marooned

Upbeat afrocentric track showcasing the sounds from the Niger Delta area of Nigeria.

Language is Kalabari and the style of music is Highlife music.

Tamuno Bo ft Sensational Bamidele

Split 7" with Audacity is out now!

*ALL VINYL IS SOLD OUT*

Get it here: http://store.winkandspit.com/product/pangea-audacity-7

TOGETHER PANGEA is William Keegan, Danny Bengston, Erik Jimenez, Roland Cosio.

together PANGEA - "No Oz"

Peter Gabriels Dream

life is not a pony farm
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

contact / bookings: 
bookings@swinetax.com
swinetax@gmail.com