Thanks to everyone who came by Fresh On The Net at the weekend to check out  Listening Post 503 and tell us which tracks they liked best. Here, in alphabetical order, are our readers' top favourites. Our reviews are written by Fresh On The Net's Steve Harris - and you can read them at http://freshonthenet.co.uk/faves503

Fresh Faves: Batch 503

Lost Souls is an ode to the struggles of today’s generation. The lyrics tell a story of a sinking ship that’s lost at sea. The captain and his crew ignore the warning signs, even denying that there’s a storm, and proceed to eat caviar as the passengers are resigned to their fate as the ship is torn apart.

Despite the nihilistic picture painted, the song also celebrates the unity of the passengers. Coming together and supporting one another even at their end. The song was recorded at Blank Studios with Sam Grant from Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs producing/mixing/mastering the track.

Lost Souls

Whatever it is that we try to control, also controls us. This mystery is at the heart of "Monolithic", an atmospheric cyberpunk track that blends together elements of synthwave, industrial, and EDM.

Written, produced, and mixed by Jonny Fallout
Mastered by XENNON at XENNON Studios

Bandcamp: https://jonnyfallout.bandcamp.com/track/monolithic
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7zfxfRiB9UF2H88u7dW1LO?si=fd71467f7e71435e

Monolithic

A song about the struggles of trying to maintain a long-distance relationship with a 1980s synth pop inspired musical backdrop.

Angles

Wild Horse - Tangled

'Fishyman, Pt.1 (Flip Flop)’ and 'Fishyman, Pt.2 (Fishy Man)’ 

Written and performed by Gag Salon.
Recorded and produced by Chris McCrory.
Mastered by Sam Smith.
Artwork by Bette Blanchard.

Joseph Mumford - vocals, electric guitar, nylon string guitar, synth
Tom Dimmock - electric guitar, synth, mellotron, piano, backing vocals
Seb Bowden - bass guitar, percussion, backing vocals,
Ayden Spiller - drums, pig squeals

Also featuring 
Soren Bryce - violin, screams

Fishyman, Pt.1 (Flip Flop)

Anything Bad for Me

The idea for this song came to me in the summer of 2020 while I was sitting in a beautiful garden with nothing more but a book and a coffee. However, I only finished writing it in March 2022.

While the original idea for the song came to me in French, I spontaneously mixed English and French while writing the lyrics of the verses. Since most of the books I am reading are either in English or French, it makes perfect sense, though!

Un livre et un café

Un livre et un café (Album Version)

To The River

My song "Lucid Dreaming" is about dreams in which you know you are dreaming. You are aware that the events that are happening in your imagination are not really happening and more like a movie. But the dream feels alive and you can influence it like a video game. This rich textured soothing Track, with a storytelling David Axelrod Bass and Guitar, a dreamy Rhodes and Piano is the Soundtrack to this dream.

Lucid Dreaming (Single)

Lucid Dreaming

Music video for Always On at: https://youtu.be/b6qVGr903LM?si=8WdbdUSpL-IINy06

Battery Operated Orchestra’s new music video is well-timed with the horror season. Always On draws parallels between the preening mice of John Calhoun’s experiments in utopia and the effects of the insistent feed of social media.
This synthpop punch has been spiked. BOO’s trademark analogue oomph is there along with Brigitte’s dead-pan to increasingly hysteric vocals. The catchy whoops make you want to groove but in the back of your mind is the niggling feeling they could be screams of terror. It all builds to a whirling climax you can’t help but be swept up in.

The single will be available to stream or to buy with pre-orders of their fifth album Compulsory Games from Friday October 6th.

Visit booelectric.com for more information.

Always On

So High

Taken from the forthcoming album Cheers Love (released 03 Nov 2023).

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/passing-fad-single/1701613389
https://open.spotify.com/track/2hREuygdELMGYZXKQYjtWa?si=57f6dacaafed495b

Passing Fad - Single

Passing Fad

Honey does this light up the dark for you?

From the Sea Glass EP

Arizona

https://aprilfour.bandcamp.com/track/eden

eden

Free the Night is the seventh full-length album from Victory Kicks. Initially recorded over a series of late-night sessions during the height of the pandemic, it was reworked in the year or so that followed. It's ten songs are about love, loss and baseball set against the backdrop of the early 2020s.
credits
released November 17, 2023

Tracks 1-10 written, performed and recorded by John Sibley.

Additional guitars and synths on 'Echo the Dusk' by Sam Beard
Piano on 'All Shook' by Harriet Sibley

Unmanned Aerial Vinyl 2023. UAV-VKLP007

All rights reserved.

Free The Night

'Jupiter' is the second single from Pocket Sun's debut album 'Mirror in Blue Light'.
Released 1st December 2023.

~ Credits ~
Produced by Josh Best-Shaw at Small Hours Studio
Mastered by James Trevascus
Artwork by Gina Marie Tratt

Official music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLcXo753-CM

~ Video Credits ~
Alien played by Laurence Fazakerley-Buglass
Directed by Gina Marie Tratt & Laurence Fazakerley-Buglass
DOP & Editor - Gina Marie Tratt
Make Up & Assistant - Tarryn van Biljon

Jupiter

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Anything Bad for Me

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