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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 373

By The River

Fuzzy organ surf psych with an apocalypse now twist!
Available on our mini LP on vinyl and cd from fuelledby.bigcartel.com/category/palooka-5

CACTUS BLOSSOM HEART

Fuzzy organ surf psych with an apocalypse now twist!
Title track from the min EP Rough Magic.
Available on vinyl and cd from https://fuelledby.bigcartel.com/category/palooka-5

ROUGH MAGIC

YEAR OF THE RAT

Fuzzy organ surf psych with an apocalypse now twist!
Available on our mini LP on vinyl and cd from https://fuelledby.bigcartel.com/category/palooka-5

DEBBIE DON'T SURF

flimsy diatribe.

With some of my new songs I’ve tried to write the lyrics first, which is a foreign process to me.  This one is about how having a child changes your perspective on things.  Since becoming a father I’ve been able to let go of a lot of things that bothered me, focussing on a bright future with my own family.

I wanted to try something different musically, so I ordered a bouzouki.  I’d never played one before so I thought it would be an interesting challenge.  We went to Devon last summer on our first family holiday and I decided to pack my latest acquisition.  During our time away I learnt to play my new instrument and wrote two songs on it.  I wanted some extra ambience for the recording, so I ordered a Gazouki (a bouzouki with a guitar body).

The music moves in some unexpected directions and parts of it remind me of ‘Grace’ by Jeff Buckley.  With this in mind, I wrote a cool ‘Jeff-style’ cello line, which is executed to perfection by Louise Dearsley.  The track also features some mighty harmonies from Roisin O’Hagan.

The artwork was designed by the wonderfully talented Alex Hutchinson, with some direction from me.  Alex used various lyrics from the song to put together a collage that represents the spirit of the track.

A Place We Knew

Drive you Around is the first single from the mini LP Ultra Marine due out June 2020.

Drive You Around

Pulse is the second single by Derby based band Mount Famine. Released on 17/07/20 it tells the story of a sweaty night in an illegal Latin speak-easy. A bloodbath of nasty Hawaiian shirts, cheap rum, even cheaper aftershave and a dance floor slick in desperation, ‘Pulse' is Northern storytelling at it’s yearning best that has been described "the sound of The Killers, New Order and Blossoms getting off with each other.."

Pulse

HEY ALL!
I have just released my first EP called 'Confident' available on all platforms :) This is one of the songs from my EP called  'With My Roller Skates' 
Link is in my bio 
It's a great way to express yourself and to have fun with friends and family during this strange time we are in.
I'm so excited I get to share my music with all of you! thank you for the support it really means alot
Dont forget to like & share!! and enjoy this song :)

Confident

With My Rollerskates

Missy Mouse Trap Premaster V1

The story of a clown, discovering the sad truth about his life...

Circus 2020

Ultra Marine

PALOOKA 5 - Ultra Marine - 04 - PALOOKA 5 - P5 Radio (Surfbeat Radio)

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Palooka 5 play 1960s tinged ‘sci-fi surf music’, think B52s with a ‘bad vibrations’ modern twist. Signed to the ‘Spinout Nuggets’ record label their three LPs have received spins from BBC Radio 6 Music Dj Gideon Coe and Deb Grant, plus tons of USA airplay on SIRUS XM from Drew Carey and Little Stevens (yes im’ from The Sopranos!) Underground Garage Show. 
 They are also the brains behind the wackiest club night in the South West ‘Club Kongo Presents’. Palooka 5 tick all the boxes for that curl shootin’ shape throwing surf hoodang in space you’ve always dreamed of!

Missy Mouse Trap Premaster V1

Palooka 5

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