ECLECTIC PICKS - 2025

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 June 9th 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/batch573

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.

Full Inbox: Batch 573

Nina Simone meets The Black Keys in a jam with Portishead?
...maybe you can do a better job defining our sound 💕

Resolution

it's a twisty love song ❤️

"HE" features heavily my little Casio pt-82 and its hypnotic samba beats. Written, recorded and produced between London & Glasgow, this is the first of three tracks I'll be releasing this year.

Thanks for listening & hope you enjoy,

Rochelle x

Lyrics:

He is like hair
Soft, smooth & everywhere 
He is a tree
Rooted, tall & climbable on 

He holds me 
In a trance, while I dance
He eclipses all I see
He builds a bridge
Then runs from me ...

He wrote down my favourite quote
On a little yellow posit note
And placed it underneath my pillow
… low, low, low, low, low, low …

He wrote down my favourite quote
On a little yellow posit note
And placed it underneath me 

He’s beating on my heart like a 
Timp, timp, timp, timp, timp, ti
Timpani

He’s like sweetpea potpourri 
Living in my mind with a master key
Beating on my heart like a timpani
Yipee! Yipee!

He’s beating on my heart like a 
Timp, timp, timp, timp, timp, ti
Timpani

Oh, 
He’s beating on my heart like a 
Timp, timp, timp, timp, timp, ti
Timpani

WISH I NEVER STAYED

"Wha-Gwaan" - designed to be a wake up call response to the seemingly increasing presence of social injustice in the world today.  The hypnotic dub-funk groove is brought to the boiing point by the legendary Frank Benbini ,(Fun Loving Criminals/UB40/Uncle Frank), who makes a guest appearance on drums & hype vocals.

WHA-GWAAN! by Tomás Doncker, featuring Frank Benbini

Holding it down in Mexico

Snuck in the back with a borrowed name,
Sneakers clean but the soul’s in flames,
Snap a pic with a plastic smile,
Actin’ like I’ve been here a while.

Posted that Benz like it’s mine to keep,
But I’m crashin’ on couches, barely sleep.
Mirror’s cracked, but I strike a pose,
Talkin’ champagne dreams in secondhand clothes.

Fake It ‘Til I Make It

A heartfelt song about the need for a belief in love soldiering on, even when the world is a bin-fire

Soldiers

Im in Love With a Girl Who Works in Wetherspoons

'COMING UNDONE' is the latest track from THE KID AND I - a thundering, unforgiving rampage about the downward spiral of your life falling apart and trying to work out how to put the pieces back together again before it's too late. Inspired by the likes of Queens Of The Stone Age and IDLES, 'COMING UNDONE' this is THE KID AND I's heaviest offering to date. 

Im in Love With a Girl Who Works in Wetherspoons

To Bear Sir