Kaleidoscopic Soul Cats

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 8th February: 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/batch394

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.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 394

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Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 394 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 Chris Ingram - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves394

Fresh Faves: Batch 394

http://boomkat.com/downloads/834219-gang-colours-why-didn-t-you-call-dave-aju-kelpe-mixes

Gang Colours - Why Didn't You Call  (Kelpe Remix) - Out Now

"Boys Life" from Best Blues out October 16, 2015 on Jagjaguwar

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"Boys Life" from Best Blues out October 16, 2015 on Jagjaguwar

Best Blues

Boys Life

Small Black - "Boys Life"

Lost bullets find their way to little hearts 
big dreams of classes and all their parts
Shots fired, little lungs run out of air 
they’ll be good if they survive, they swear 
Their school bleeds from all corners
each week they welcome new mourners
Stray bullets, shots fired, the war on drugs 
little dreamers between cops and thugs
Corpses that never got to grow full size
Too much pigment for politicians to empathize 
Their education lost to the drug trade 
Their lives lost to bullets that strayed
Battles on the news between vain fixes
Ignored by those worshiping crucifixes

The day life stopped in the shanty town
days, weeks, months, it comes back around
Build walls here to keep them out
little girls sold there to the local talent scout
The bricks are designed to keep you in
Freedom up to the choice of your guillotine 
Those bellow gave up hope long ago
Those above maintain the status quo

This year he had single digit geography lessons
But he can name tons of vicious weapons
Conditioned to find life a normality 
with the constant threat of senseless brutality
born to brown parents with empty pockets
1% indifferent as living-cost skyrockets
Legal pharmaceuticals profiting from the sick
Those trying to decriminalize seen as lunatics
Exclusion begins with a lack of arithmetic
Inclusion is stalled by insidious politics
They stare at the same sky but their roofs are different
Watch them die on a new t.v., their suffering insignificant
Favelas periodically suffer a disease outbreak
Not enough think about which side to take

The day life stopped in the shanty town
days, weeks, months, it comes back around
Build walls here to keep them out
little girls sold there to the local talent scout
The bricks are designed to keep you in
Freedom up to the choice of your guillotine 
Those bellow gave up hope long ago
Those above maintain the status quo

Deferred Hope

I wrote this song thinking about things I wish I could forget. With all my music, I want to capture a feeling and create a little universe.

lyric video: https://youtu.be/X80KAShPLYg

littleuniverses

Those Things

Magdapio Falls

Written, performed and produced by Thomas McConnell
Mixed by Liam Narrie
Mastered by Oli Morgan at Abbey Road Studios

Released Feb 20th 2020 from the upcoming Welcome To Novelty Island... EP (March 2020)

Lyrics
I've landed in the high street
and it’s insanely noisy 
2 billion strangers scrambling
for dopamine injecting
they’re screaming from the windows
Their deafening opinions 
The lucky get attention
Ignored jump to the pavement

A herd of sheep are covered
In articles for grown ups
bleating "the most important...
thing that you’ll read this morning”  
A looming billboard reading 
inspiring quotes and feelings
They flock below, agreeing 
and then they start repeating

A flight of aqua pigeons 
Appear above and flashing
Their cameras catch the mayhem 
A trillion frames per second
the world’s heaviest person
eats anorexic kittens
It's for a live transmission
to all the homes in Britain

Windows

Paper planets hanging by a thread
and aluminium comets flutter overhead

There's a reason
for the mission
there’s a problem
in the heavens

The cuts are causing cracks around the galaxy 
they’re jeopardising our solar security 
and i find myself eternally orbiting 
the stars are melting down and I can see the strings 

and the satellite is blaring down
a supersonic wall of sound 
shaking all of us around
saturn alarms are ringing out

ooooh, saturn alarms
ooooh, saturn alarms

lego rocket dangles from a star 
by galaxies of sequins on a backdrop far

in the distance 
where I'm searching 
the horizon
has gone missing 

now that I’m free from the pull of gravity
and all sorts of purple is surrounding me
I terminate the contract with the autocrat
escaping before the milky-way’s collapse 

and the satellite is blaring down
a supersonic wall of sound 
shaking all of us around
saturn alarms are ringing out

Saturn Alarms

ALTAR

Don't Panic

Inside Out

from propeller (inner workings), released December 4, 2020 
https://hungersleeprecords.bandcamp.com/album/propeller-inner-workings

An unplugged version of The Cage from GRICE'S album Propeller featuring the late (magnificent) Raphael Ravenscroft on sax.  

The album cover and track artwork images are also early incarnations of the Propeller CD artwork. (original artwork courtesy of British artist Elizabeth McAlpine)

GRICE: lead vocals, electric guitar, horn arrangements. 
Raphael Ravenscroft: saxophone. 
Joe Breban: drums 
Jerri Hart: trumpet 
Ondrej Pochyly: acoustic and electric violin 

Album cover images originally from 'Quintet’ courtesy of Elizabeth McAlpine. 
Cover designs: GRICE 

Recorded at Sound Gallery Studios, UK 
Engineered by Duncan Chave & GRICE 
Mastered by Duncan Chave 
Composed, arranged and produced by GRICE 

www.gricemusic.co.uk 

© 2020 GRICE 
℗ 2020 Hungersleep Records

Propeller (inner workings)

The Cage (Bird Cage mix)

Watch the official music video here: https://youtu.be/PXCFfkEkDz0 

‘Round We Go’ is the second single in a series of new offerings from the duo’s upcoming full-length album, set to be released later in 2021.

Press photos, press release and promo material: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1g3HTWZq3hWwW-pHBLKfDBmErLhKFxHLf 

Radio Edit, publisher info and lyrics:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zPCDaB3_vDePSlK5hJhyG_AVnBTsn7Hk 

Lyrics by Emma de Goede & Gerry Matthee
Music by Gerry Matthee
Produced by Gerry Matthee
Mixed and mastered by Dane Taylor
Cover artwork by Alecia van Aarde (Studio A)

#Synthpop #Dreampop #Newwave

Round We Go

"Little Alien" by Butterjunk - Track 1 on the 'Normalised EP'
Release Date: 25 January 2021

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Little Alien

Butterjunk - Little Alien

Ava de Bara creates music at the intersection of mysticism and realism, tension and release.

She was created as a way to transcend inner identifiers and freely express, tearing at limitations built by genre, sexuality, locality, the self…

Spacey, genre-less, bold, and with a lot of guts, Ava will take you through compositions that unite the contemporary pop world with crowned jewels from the past – already situating herself in the grand archive. Listen carefully.

“Ava de Bara’s breakout single “Fame” marks the beginning of her musical journey through genre-less time and space. This song sonically represents a complicated relationship that may be inevitable. Its tension and release, built by strings, poolside rhythms, swelling harmonies, and dusty guitars, is the mirage you want to bathe in at the beginning of this new year. Ava has been reborn, and so have you.”

www.avadebara.com/

Ava De Bara - Fame

Can We Stay

"‘The Surface’ is about when you start doubting your path, you have to take action”, says the Icelandic singer-songwriter about his debut single, which will be released on 18 February via his imprint, Raun Music.

Encapsulating the highly relatable, yet bitter irony of losing one’s youthful spirits, ‘The Surface’ is when the uncertainty of the path chosen and the dreams that have been put on hold catches up with you. For most people, it leads to no action. But those who find courage, use it as a source of inspiration to rediscover old dreams, be impulsive and get out of the comfort zone. The theme relates back to the songwriters own personal experience of finally nurturing his creative side by writing music after years of focus on his technology startup.

The track is accompanied by a music video, which features Prime's Viking star, Ragga Ragnars. She says: “When I first heard the song and heard the storyline of the music video, I immediately got excited to jump into the freezing cold Atlantic Ocean. [...] I feel like 'The Surface' is a great reminder to those people who feel stuck or lost, that it’s more than okay to let loose and live. I had a blast (and quite frankly, a freeze) shooting the music video."

UNRELEASED

The Surface

Grungey DIY alt-rock track with Laura on vocals and guitars and Paul on bass, synths and drums.

I found my peace in the middle of a war
became the beast but forgot what for
smashed through the ceiling which was also a floor
feeding the plant but killing the soil
Bleach it and start again
Been awful civilised
Being awful civilised
Been awful c*^%$
I cut my teeth as a professional whore
on my knees I can see much more
saving yourself is killing us all
Bleach it and start again
Been awful civilised
Being awful civilised
Been awful c*^%$

Voices In a Hurricane

Bleach it

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