Choices of the Grasshopper June

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 7th June: 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/batch409

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 409

Hey,  Rockers! 1st Song Music presents the new 2021 July Rock music playlist. Hope You All Enjoy It!

1st Song Music - Rock | July 2021

Jun 21

Maybe Your Heart's Not in It No More

Maybe Your Heart’s Not in It No More

Babylon EP

With You

Elegant Strangers

Forthcoming release from London band The Pylons, the first single of a new EP for 2021.

All enquiries - contact@thepylons.com

The Chase

I wrote and recorded each song from this EP and my last album in isolation at my home studio in real time, and as each song kinda follows the trajectory of everything that's happened in the past year. For Safety started a chapter that gave a glimpse of a hopeful, yet ironic and strange future where things are starting to wake up, but have morphed into all these odd new normals. In a way it's been nice to have all this time to reflect or cocoon in creatively, and part of me feels strange about waking up from that slumber. But as many silver linings as I slap on it, you'd have to be a world champion optimist to ignore that it's been a pretty dark world out there. A lifetime's worth of issues slingshot to earth in a single year. Pandemics, insurrection, the reality of social injustice, and on and on. Tons of alarms ringing nonstop and really loud.
Also as things start to feel a bit brighter around the corner, as things open back up and tensions have settled a bit, I can't help but notice that the world (or at least my world) feels pretty damn different than the last time I inhabited it. A lot has changed for me, much like everyone else probably. Things won't be that same, the once distant future is still pretty fuzzy and out of focus... but comparatively, I'm ok with this bottled optimism for now.

Monograms - For Safety

Azure Days - She Won't Come Again

The Haunted Youth - Coming Home - Fr 04-06-21

British Asian songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dewan-Dean Soomary returns with a new project that blends the snappy pop sensibility of indie disco with the bleak humour and biting social commentary of post-punk.

Teenage Sequence tells acid-tongued and relatable stories about the humiliations and alienations of modern life: the casual racism of the music industry or your crush, the endless series of hangovers that keep you stuck as an eternal kid, the despair of living in a world on the verge of destruction, the yearning when you fall in love despite all of this. Lush synthesisers, fuzzy guitars, and relentless 909 beats build a soundscape that is as sleek, pulsing, merciless, and ultimately as irresistible as London itself— demanding that the listener dance, even as it reminds them that the dance-floor is burning. 

Teenage Sequence’s debut single “All This Art” turns a scathing eye on the small indignities and hypocrisies of a music industry that doesn’t want face its own racial shortcomings— all the while poking fun at its self and sarcastically  sending up the warped relationship we all have to ourselves and our art. 
Clocking in at 6.29 of spoken word over a dance beat as bright, tart, and cutting as the song’s lyrics, “All This Art” disregards the rules of modern pop and alternative songwriting in favour of brutal honesty and bittersweet fun.
	- K.M Ferebee

All This Art

Scout

Show Up

Moonlight

Waiting Around for a New Me

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Do You Remember The Times

Story

Fine Little Rhythm

Believe Anything

Babs , releasing on June 11th 2021, is a song that takes you to a happy place. Depicting the scene of a music lover listening to old and new records with in their home, the song takes you to a moment of freedom and pleasure. Just imagine dancing in your room to one of your favourite albums and you'll understand! With ever present soft'n'sweet vocals 'Babs' leans towards a more pop infused electronic, hiphop production in which the duo hope to share some of their musical joy with the listener, and truly welcome in the UK summer time!

Babs

Dave & Lee - Singles Collection

You Been Branded

Second single from London based New Zealander Hemi Hemingway. Taken from the debut EP The Lonely Hunter out June 18 via PNKSLM Recordings on vinyl and digitally. Listen/buy: smarturl.it/hemihemingway

www.PNKSLM.com/hemi-hemingway

The Lonely Hunter

Burnin' Blue

‘I Might Have’ is the second single from A Place to Bury Strangers forthcoming EP, Hologram which will be released on their newly formed label, Dedstrange on July 16.  “I Might Have” is a fuzz-soaked sonic disaster in the best possible way. Past reflections collide with the brutality of a disintegrating world, stories of personal trauma, acceptance, and human failings emerge from the rubble of noise and destitute motorik rhythms. This is A Place To Bury Strangers at its most honest and unfiltered.   Hologram serves as an abstract mirror to the moment we live in and “I Might Have” smashes that mirror into a thousand pieces.

Hologram

I Might Have

A Place To Bury Strangers - I Might Have

Good Lovin Gone

The Pylons are a 5-piece indie band. Originally from Lincolnshire, the band now live in their house turned home studio in North West London, experimenting with complex harmonies, distorted guitars, synthesisers and sampling.