This EP came together from conversations that we had at rehearsals about growing up. Reaching adulthood is a painful affair at times & we all take turns leaning on each other. This is our coming-of-age EP with songs for the pivotal moments of this strange and wonderful life. Newfound freedom is glorious but trimmed with a little darkness that we must all grapple with throughout our lives. Coming face to face with being a woman in this world, finding love for the first time, becoming ourselves and learning how to deal with the heavy stuff. We’ve packed it all in and hope it makes you feel something 💛

Sugarcoat

Mix May 2023

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 15th May 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/batch488

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 488

Never Given A Chance

Something Good

Lakehouse is a very special song to us and the most emotionally raw on the EP. It’s an ode to the paradox of fearing vulnerability whilst longing for connection. Sometimes the words are just too heavy to say out loud.

Lakehouse

We wrote this about a boy who never quite made piece with adult hood. Its an ode to the child within us all who doesn't want to grow up.

Lost Boy

We wrote this in response to the barrage of news stories about violence against women. It leaves a bitter taste and an ever-present tingle of fear when stepping out the door in the dark. Maybe you feel it too?

A lot of the footage in this video was filmed at the Manchester Walk for Women, 2023. Thanks to all you lovely folk who agreed to be in it!

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Sugar Coat

How About It?

Shelter Me From The Storm

LYRICS
Grace of a swan forever
Faces unknown, I'll piece them together
In my mind, I'm always looking down
It seems time

To taste the light and watch all of us now
You take a knife and open up this town
I didn’t know you’d seen another face that I didn’t show
And still you looked misplaced

Eyes of ghost remember
We tore it in hope to keep it together
In my mind, I always look around
To find time in every other sound
Take it or leave, this place is a river
It's up to to my knees and pulling me quicker
In my mind, how hard that I’ve tried to conceal her

To taste the light and watch all of us now
You take a knife and open up this town
I didn’t know you’d seen another face that I didn’t show
And still you looked misplaced and left behind

You’ve been running in place all night

We cut it down to the fucking bone
We never thought, but we should’ve known
What others saw, but I can’t see
It was supposed to me

Taste the Light

Taste The Light

For Hungrier Hearts

I Need You

On The Walk From The Picturehouse

Slab

Space Between

End of line
no more singing lullabies to adults
Never take the time
I don’t want to be alive

Fed the mind
underlying, underlining trauma
Never had the time
No more ‘it will be alright’

Feeling like a lion behind bars
watching as our lives are going under
Handsome boys obsessing with their cars
while pretty girls are yearning for the summer

Felt my spine
As I took the fall from Jacob’s ladder
Never had the time
Didn’t want to be in a fight

Hate my kind
Hating all the violence in our karma
Yet I lie
Acting like a frightened child

Feeling like a lion behind bars
watching as our lives are going under
Handsome boys obsessing with their cars
while pretty girls are yearning for the summer

I’d rather dream of life on Mars

Everything is under no control
Everything is under no control
Everything is under no control

Hurricane

Written by Ste Fisher, Tom Hammond and Sam Perry
Produced by Ste Fisher, Tom Hammond, Samuel Newham, Sam Perry and Harry Vernon
Mixing and additional production by Hugo Meredith-Hardy
Mastering by Kane Whitelam

© 2023 Love vs Fear
℗ 2023 Love vs Fear

Heir EP

Feel Like Myself (When I Am With You)

MOTHLOOP_WE BUILT THIS MACHINE

Indie-folk girlband from Manchester ☂️

Lost Boy

The Deep Blue