Any artist is welcome to send us ONE track via https://soundcloud.com/groups/dropbox anytime between Monday lunchtime and Thursday morning - and all our moderators, including Tom Robinson, will listen to every track*. This is our full inbox from the week beginning 8 February 2016: from Friday you'll be able to hear our shortlist and pick your favourites on this week's Listening Post which will appear at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/batch185

*Note: we don't listen again to tunes we've already heard, and automatically block artists who send more than one track a week (our moderators can manage to work their way through 180 tunes overnight, but 360+ would be impossible!)

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 185

we're all in love with something that we can't see

Marc

Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground (BitFiter Cover)

The forthcoming new single 'Mesmerise' by Temples, taken from the band's eagerly anticipated debut album 'Sun Structures'.  The record is released by Heavenly Recordings on 10th February 2014 and 11th February in the US by Fat Possum.

The 12-track album was self-produced by the band’s James Bagshaw and mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer. The album will be available on CD, download and double vinyl.

Pre orders:

UK CD / LP: http://heavenlyemporium.greedbag.com/buy/sun-structures/

US iTunes: http://smarturl.it/templesitunes
US CD / LP: http://fatpossum.com/products/sun-structures/

https://www.facebook.com/templesofficial
http://templestheband.com/

Mesmerise

Temples - Mesmerise

N-Dimension (Original)

You hate my face Yerunda
Can't stand this place Yerunda
It's just things we say
I'll send you back Yerunda
You will attack Yerunda
It's just things we say
We'll never die Yerunda
Yet never cry Yerunda
It's just things we say
Everything transforms 
All minds will rise
We'll stand forever 
And love never dies
Can't tell a lie
I am not wise Yerunda
We're hypnotised Yerunda
It's just things we say

Yerunda

Teach me how to live 
'Coz I haven't got a clue
How on earth do you do it?
New age self-help guru
Coz everyones screwing me over
But other institutions are not like you
Just when I thought my life was over 
New age self-help guru
You showed me what to do-
Give all my money to you 
Yes one day I will be a millionaire 
All my dreams will come true
Soon I will have not one care
Thanks to a book or two
I'd like to thank you again 
For making me feel so Zen
I owe it all to you
New age self-help
You need my self-help
New age self-help guru
Teach me how to live 
'Coz I haven't got a clue 
How on earth do you do it?

New age self-help guru

This is one of my first songs from around 2006, silly but I liked the tune

Please Don't Play (Your games with me)

Steppin' out my house just brings me down
Don't wanna don't wanna go out now 
The more I see the more I frown
Don't wanna don't wanna go out now 
Thickos, sickos, grin in disguise
Don't wanna don't wanna go out now
I see you coming I have to hide 
Don't wanna don't wanna go outside
Though the sublime sun is out
Though everyone seems to be out
Though everywhere is full of life 
All I need is in my mind 
I'm quite happy inside
Go out have fun, I don't mind 
Don't wanna don't wanna go outside
All I need I have to find
Modern architecture makes me sick
Don't wanna don't wanna go outside
My pub now flats taking the mick
Don't wanna don't wanna go outside 
Going into town just brings me down
Don't wanna don't wanna go out now 
The more I see the more I frown
Don't wanna don't wanna go outside

Happy inside

Vlad was born he'll soon be dead
All the in between is just a freezing head
So he might as well get soused instead 
He can barely afford to keep his poor wife fed
Got just enough to drink bootleg
Warm your head go bootleg
Life's a struggle so get drunk instead
Eyes burn red bathtub bed
He can't afford Vodka so he drinks bootleg
The poison running through his veins
Makes him sick and batters out his brains 
He knows a cure that'll save the day 
Another bottle not much to pay
Not in money anyway
It's ok just one more day
It's disinfectant but it's sweet to taste 
Who said you need your organs anyway
He's got no job so he will obey
Oh winters come- He's no one 
Winters here - Freeze his tears
The bastards in authority
Know the extent of the inpurity 
They sit and watch the young men die 
'' It's their choice so they've no right to cry''
They sit and watch them die
It's alright dry your eyes 
Go and see the bootleg guy
He makes it better and you no longer mind 
If you live or die
Warm your head go bootleg 
Life's a struggle so get drunk instead 
Eyes burn red bathtub bed
He's got no life so he drinks-
He's got no life because he drinks bootleg. 



Go Bootleg

Dragon Age: Inquisition Theme "Epic Rock" Cover

Available for purchase from 5th February at http://www.clutchingatstraws.com/

This Table Changes Everything - Single 1

Contact: info@alistairsheerin.com

Words & Music by Alistair James
Recorded and mixed by Steve Metcalfe & Mark Plati
Copyright © 2015 Millbrand Music Ltd.
Runaway Records / Selrec International Ltd. 5065002113429
RCDSP 134

Have You Ever Been Low

2BaDa's music this year 2016, promises to bring more captivating, soul-moving and club banging debuts that will herald the arrival of a fresh sound.

Off the 2BaDa 1st studio album titled "This is E.A.T (Est A TakeOver), ALD Records presents to you "O Baby". 

@Mowille2BaDa @Dskillz2BaDa @Official2BaDa

Mowille - O Baby (prod. LcBeatz)

Counted in the strange  
I walked away alone 
To my sacred grove
Lost In mossy darkness climbing
The routes of old 
Thistle barb or scorn
Could not lacerate 
In my pantheon
Shackles of dominion long gone
The green-faced shadow man
You’re my only friend
The green-faced shadow man
Soon the fires go out 
Whispers from the Underworld
Their schools banality   
Dead to me
Counted in the strange 
I walked away alone 
In others shoes well worn
Waiting for the ship bound for dawn
The green faced shadow man
You’re my only friend

The Green-faced Shadow Man

Push me deep beneath your skin
Let me right inside your heart.

From upcoming EP
H O U R  G L A S S  H E A R T S 

<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/b8c2f4?soundcloud_ref=description'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

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H O U R G L A S S H E A R T S

Taken from the album 'Sailing Songs' out now via www.littlemono.bandcamp.com 

"I see you run"

Propeller

Fremantle Dockers Theme Song (POND cover)

Latest uploads on: The Cobbled Moth 2 -  "Cobbled Moth Regenerated" Soundcloud.com/thecobbledmoth2

Outsider songwriter cobbling lo-fi demos (because I don't know how not to). Achieved solo with a Tascam pocket studio, acoustic guitar, Telecaster, tambourine and bloody bongos...not all used on every track. Some Instrumentals. 

"Compliance is a deadly vice 
That makes you think you're safe
But the truths from which we hide
Become the horrors we face"  - The Cobbled Moth, from the song 'On the Outside' 2016.

Double translated as:
"Compliance is a deadly defect
This makes you think that you are safe
But the truths from which we hide
Become the horrors that we come across" Bulyznik Prays, or Cobbled Midge. 

All tracks for free download (unless I forgot to change permissions)
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The Cobbled Moth