Singles submitted as part of the Lights And Lines #AlbumWritingClub 2023 where independent artists from around the world signed up to write an album or an EP each in just 1 month. 

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Each artist is given the option to submit a single as part of the competition and the public get to choose their favourite - the one with the most votes gets released on Lights And Lines!

Please don't judge anyone's work based on recording quality - We did not ask artists to master their projects for final release due to time restraints. Instead think about things like songwriting, instrumentation, creativity, and how it makes you feel 😀

#AlbumWritingClub2023 - Best Single (Public Vote)

An ever growing list of favourites from my musical rummaging

The Big Grey Playlist

Waves Of Serenity Sunset

One Small Mistake

This song is my 'single entry' for the Lights and Lines Album Writing Club.
Please listen to the end, the messages get more potent as the song progresses.
Part of the album titled 'The Product' an electro-folk protest album about the state of the country and my interpretation of the causes...

Lyrics:

This life of comfort, this life of life of opportunities,
What was the price of your big house in the country?

Should you ask for forgiveness,
And should you make amends?

How did you come to be so powerful?
How did things come to be so unequal?

Should you ask for forgiveness,
And should you make amends?
Should you ask for forgiveness,
And should you make amends?

Should you pay back the profits?
Should you recompense?
Should you give up the titles?
And should you start again,
With nothing, like we did, like we did?

Is it who you grew up with,
And where you went to school?
Are we the ones that deserve it?
Or are we just a tool?

Should we ask for forgiveness,
And should we make amends?

Reparations

The next album from Time. Space. Repeat. - the soundtrack to a utopian society, destroyed by hubris and unforeseen events. Everything has its consequence.

Bossa Never

(Music & Lyrics by Annika Elting
© 2 May 2023
E-guitar, Bass Ukulele, Vocals: Annika Jayne
Cover Art: Annika Jayne, picture taken from Canva

This is my SINGLE submission for the Album Writing Club of 2023. 

Here's the complete playlist containing all entries: https://on.soundcloud.com/GLd3t
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I guess it's true when they say "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned". I was very, very angry at someone, not because they rejected me, but because they were holding me back from making music, so much so that I was starting to lose myself. As scary as that was, it also made me realise that I need songwriting and recording like I need air to breathe. And in this song I make sure that I'm back and more determined than ever. It's like a lot of people say: With all the pain and misery they put me through, they only pushed me towards my destiny. I suppose I should thank them for that.  So instead of channeling my anger into something destructive, I channeled it into creativity.

In Moments Like These

I'm On Fire

I'm On Fire SINGLE ALBUM WRITING CLUB

This is my single submission for the 2023 Album Writing Club.

Here is the complete playlist of the entries: on.soundcloud.com/GLd3t

Please vote for your favorites (up to three) here: forms.gle/o9NTgKWpqWqKVx7x9

Dark horse, came from nothin’
Disregards whatever makes his life complete
Black sheep, started runnin’
Traveled far, searchin’ for something to beat
Black eye, hindered vision
Head aloft, forcing us to understand
Boxed ears, you never listen
Shouting off whoever wants to lend a hand

What a struggle when you’re always right
How difficult that seems
If only all of us would see the light
We could start building your dreams

Reelin’ mad, so pathetic
Debate is trash when winning is the only goal
Feelin’ bad, sympathetic
Watching as you spiral down a rabbit hole
Honor bound, keep on talkin’
Right or not, you’re acting like a total douche
Turn around, just start walkin’
Haven’t got the energy to deal with you

Can just imagine all the bridges burning and fences you’ve built up
Walls and chambers, battlements as you refuse the drawbridge lowered

Fair play that fateful Tuesday
Shot a dove and pushed away an olive branch
His way or the highway
Makes a peace sign with his fist and calls it righteousness
Can’t miss the looks and comments
I’ve been catchin’ all the salty vibes you’re sendin’ me
If this is how he treats us
Just imagine what he visits on his enemies

All the demons and the feral winds that you loose upon your home
Can maybe chalk it up to arrogance as to why you die alone

Scenes From an Empty Stage

Fences

A song about emerging from challenging times, in glorious fashion. It was inspired by a few visits to Birmingham and includes a few references to the city in its lyric - along with Edinburgh and Reims, which are perhaps associated more with opulence and glamour (even if it isn't always the truth.)

Distinctly Continental

Here's an early mix of a track, 'Teetering On The Edge', which will be on this year's - 2024 - album ('It's Nice To Be Niche'), due out in October. Is it a song for the Flat Earth Society? No, but it could be. Is it a song about falling over? No. Do I like the word, 'teetering'? Yes, I do. It's a great word! But also, sometimes it does feel as though we are all Teetering On The Edge.

Teetering On The Edge

SYLVIA

Surf rock influenced post punk tune duet about social anxiety and existential dread

Sometimes_Geography of the Moon

Sister Peyote

Lo-fi songs on synths. BlueSky @voltagepoetry.bsky.social Bandcamp: www.voltagepoetryproject.bandcamp.com

Distinctly Continental

Voltage Poetry Project