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 13th October 2025: 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/batch585

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.

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.

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03/08/25

The Best Kind of Hubris; My Own

"Home Ain’t on the Map"is not just an instrumental piece it is a meditation on the very idea of what "home"means.
In a world where borders, belonging, and roots are constantly shifting, Max Marginal expresses through two guitars a universal truth: *home is not always a place you can point to on a map.
The rhythm guitar embodies the road, the journey, the passage of time  steady, persistent, always moving forward.
The melodic guitar, on the other hand, represents "the inner voice" searching, questioning, sometimes colliding with silence. Together, they weave a dialogue without words, like two souls wandering in search of a place that is not physical but "emotional and spiritual".
Through this composition, Max Marginal explores:
he **loneliness** of those who cannot find their place,
the **displacement** of those who live far from their homeland,
but also the **freedom** of building a home out of fleeting moments, emotions, and invisible bonds.
"Home Ain’t on the Map" questions the very essence of exile: what if home is not a destination, but a feeling? What if true refuge lies not in the land beneath our feet, but in "the music itself "?
By removing words, Max Marginal allows the listener to own the journey. Each person can project their memories, wanderings, and hopes into the vibrating strings. It is both an escape and a return — an invitation to get lost in order to be found.

Home Ain’t on the Map

Tidal Wave is about that flood of emotion when you let yourself feel fully, even if it crashes in all at once. The temporary drowning that can lead to clarity.
This project came together as I let go, as I let the wave take me where it needed to. I was trying to be honest, learning not to hide from what hurts.
Written, produced & mixed entirely by me. 

Drive Me Home

Little King is September's release in our attempt to release a track a month for a year. The sun's gone in and the leaves are turning. Is this reflected in the music - probably not, but it has some other early Autumnal feelings going on. Sit back, get your Autumn knitwear on, stick a log on the fire and enjoy. FREE DOWNLOAD from Bandcamp (follow 'Buy' Link)

Little King

Give the robot your face (Radio edit)

Highrise

The SPR3 was formed by two University of Utah students back in 2003. They met in a creative writing class. Had shared interests (Adbusters, Negativland, Strangers With Candy, etc) and soon started publishing a zine. Forming a band was the obvious next step. The SPR3 first distributed their music to the public in a CD that was included in the 12th issue of their zine. The zine was known as "Chiaroscuro" and the CD was known as "The CD of the Absurd." The 39th and last issue of the zine was published in 2013, but they never stopped making music. They launched their official website and released their first cassette tape ("Rhythm & Booze") in 2021. 

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