Tobi's Fresh Net Favs 2021

Choices Of The Grasshopper February 2021

INDIE/Feb 2021

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 1st March: 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/batch397

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 397

Mar 21

Eden is a Red Row

From my album 'October Man' released in October 2019.

October Man

Lyrics

I fall back into my teens
Whenever I get close but

You don’t feel like home
To me anymore
You don’t feel like home
But you did once and if time stood still

I’d wait for hours for a glimpse of those child like chills
But all the things i’ve said move further from my mouth

You don’t feel like home
To me anymore
You don’t feel like home
When I fall backwards

You’re no more than births and funerals
You’re no more than all I’ve been
Where there once was grudge there’s now peace and a sense of end
I’ll mourn your gradual death but cherish every breath

You don’t feel like home
To me anymore
You don’t feel like home
When I fall backwards
You don’t feel like home
To me any more
You don’t feel like home
But you did once

You Don't Feel Like Home

Here it is. My new single “OK” is available everywhere now.

Lyric video: http://bit.ly/GanderOKVideo

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Everything Will Be Ok Eventually

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Belongingness

Old Sea Brigade - "Day By Day" https://oldseabrigade.ffm.to/daybyday

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Lyrics:
Time and time again I think I’m falling through space and I wakeup in my bed just sweating in sheets
Remembering my name but it don’t sound the same 
Daylight come and save me from the 2am creeps

And I think of you growing old and it breaks my heart
And I think of you growing old and it breaks my heart

Hold me up again or I can count on the wall
Just a temporary panic that I can’t seem to beat
Stranger in the mirror his smile makes me shiver
He wears my features and grinds my teeth

And I think of you growing old and it breaks my heart
And I think of you growing old

Darkness it comes and puts me in place
I’m a prisoner babe you know I can’t escape
Take all you want take all you can take
But the shadow of age is every step of the way
And it’s day by day it’s all I can take of it
And it’s day by day its all I can chase

Time and time again I think I’ve pulled it together but something’s so familiar that’s unraveling me
I’ll forget my name every evenings the same
Frozen on my back just praying for sleep

And I think of you growing old and it breaks my heart
And I think of you growing old and it breaks my heart
And I think of you as the night grows cold and it breaks my heart
And I think of you growing old

Day By Day

Pacific Coast Highway

Today We're The Greatest

R U 4 Me?

Meltwater EP

Last Rites

Let It All Go

Luka - Past The Point Of No Return

Released on Wednesday 24th February via SAM Records

Bandit - Peppermints Don't Hide Everything

Ave Life

Helly Hansen 4

Pass On

‘Social Intercourse' EP arrives April 2021.

The Haunt
“Wish You Stayed”
(Anastasia Grace/Matt Good)

I’ve been away for a while,
Your heart was always my home.
Thought I’d never have to let you go,
But here I am now and I’m sitting alone.

Came back around and my hometown's broken,
Here on the ground, there’s a love that’s frozen,
When the words left your mouth, you were set in motion…

I wish you fucking stayed.

I left my life behind,
No city, place, day, and time.
Thought it was clear that you were mine,
And now everywhere I look I see the signs.

Came back around and my hometown's broken,
Here on the ground, there’s a love that’s frozen,
When the words left your mouth, you were set in motion…

I wish you fucking stayed.

Came back around and my hometown's broken,
Here on the ground, there’s a love that’s frozen,
When the words left your mouth, you were set in motion...

I wish you fucking stayed.

(Bridge)

I came back to see,
Nothing’s like it used to be,
All that’s left is you and me,
The rest is history. 

Came back around and my hometown's broken,
Here on the ground, there’s a love that’s frozen,
When the words left your mouth, you were set in motion…

I wish you would’ve stayed.

I wish you fucking stayed.

https://www.thehauntband.com

Wish You Stayed

The Haunt Wish You Stayed

Daydream

Pivotal Orbit

Pages Turn

Look what happened when Rope Store got back in the studio in 2020.

Because 2020's been a very 'different' year, this is a very different Rope Store!

Written, played & sung by Jason & Gemma.

Recorded, mixed & mastered at The Crunch, UK.

Isabella

Two brothers versus the machines. Clusters of Eyes debuted at Smugglers Festival 2018 and have since been inhabiting coastal Kent’s subterranean network of tunnels, honing their set of gritty electronica and robot-rock.

This latest track features guest vocals from Troy of punk/hardcore band The Long Knives.

Imagery of a dystopian post-Covid, post-Brexit landscape is set to an irrepressible groove - inspired in equal parts by The Fall’s ‘Blindness’ and Death In Vegas’ ‘Aisha’.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/QaII3ePbDtc

This Is Transformation (feat. Troy)

Pinky Ring

Big Bang

Pressure valve
In control of my doubt
Angels are dressing down
in the sky
Human touch
in the absence of love
And my blood, it is sound
I get by

Such a thought
to forget what I'm taught
No more pills to be popped
I'm alright
But I'm not blind
to what I cannot find
Though I try and I try
and I try

I won't grow old in golden light
And Babylon ain't worth the fight
I'll be happy to be fine.

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Written, performed, produced, and mixed by Dorvin Borman
Mastered by John War

Pressure Valve

The new album "Let Us Be Reckless" will be out everywhere on June 25, 2021!

Static in Verona is the work of Chicago musician Rob Merz, creating dreamy power pop weaved in an eclectic mixture of experimental, electronic and rock. A towering mass of sound built around uplifting, emotionally powerful choruses and epic arrangements.

All Static in Verona's music is available as a name-your-price (even free) downloads on Bandcamp at http://staticinverona.bandcamp.com and on all streaming and download platforms.

Let Us Be Reckless

5th March 2020

Darkwaters

Escaping from Tron straight into Miami Vice along a flickering neon highway.  Has had airplay on BBC Introducing in the West.

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Midnight highway
Ride that light ray
Run from the night wave
Born in a neon glow 
Backlit raceway
Now what you say?

Left through right brain
Make your own game
Straight from the mainframe
Born in a neon glow 
It’s our way out
It’s you and me now

Generator
Light the way

Spotlight full flight
Timing just right
Escape from the arclight
Born in a neon glow 
Midnight light ray
Meet me halfway

Hit like light wave
Trip all night, rave
Take what the night gave
Born in a neon glow 
It’s our way out
It’s you and me now

Generator
Light the way

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ALFONSE
Store: http://alfonse.bandcamp.com
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/alfonsemusic
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/alfonsemusic

Generator

Alfonse - Generator

A mellow but driving new wave pop hit, with lyrics about purpose, wasted days and drinking. #newwave #pop #indie #unsigned #charts #1975 #harmony #rock #synth #synthpop #anotherdayingodsowncountry

Manikin

Venn Smyth live gigs
3 May / 7.30pm / Pride's Got Talent Semifinals, Phoenix Art Club: https://phoenixartsclub.com/book/?instanceid=130001
12 May / 7pm / Babel Art House: https://www.outsavvy.com/event/14069/venn-smyth-hermes-gig-live-at-babel-art-house

This version of Sunrise was recorded in the garden in Scotland during the summer of 2020. It captures the sounds of the outdoors as well as giving a gentler take on the song, inviting you to put on your headphones and listen closely.

Download/stream here: https://ffm.to/sunrise-acoustic

Sunrise is a song about grief. In the original release, its poetic lyrics and meaningful message are set to electronic, uplifting eighties throwback sounds. This is a summer pop song for reflection and dancing in equal measure.

Download/stream here: https://ffm.to/vennsmyth-sunrise

Sunrise lyrics by Venn Smyth

I thought it was an ocean
I see it now a river
I know it comes in waves

It may last a lifetime
And time won’t cast a lifeline
But hold on

(I don’t) Don’t have answers
(I’ll wait) Wait however
Long it takes
Long it takes

For the sunrise
Some rise
More than the sun sets
Some things are said
Some things are set
Our sun will set

But we will sunrise
They say that some will rise
There will be sunsets
But we will get 
When all is said
Our day in the sun 

Matter, moments, memory
Sound and silence, senses
Weigh down your every move

(You swam) Swam through currents strong
(And ran) Ran into the storm
(You crept) Crept through grief and love
(In debt) Debt to those above

(I don’t) Don’t have answers
(I’ll wait) Wait however
Long it takes
Long it takes

For the sunrise
Some rise
More than the sun sets
Some things are said
Some things are set
Our sun will set

But we will sunrise
They say that some will rise
There will be sunsets
But we will get 
When all is said
Our day in the sun

For the sunrise
Some rise
More than the sun sets
Some things are said
Some things are set
Our sun will set

But we will sunrise
They say that some will rise
There will be sunsets
But we will get 
When all is said
Our day in the sun

Recorded and produced by Venn Smyth

Sunrise (Acoustic from the Garden in Scotland)

All The Colours Of You

"Wild Bird is a song which was inspired from a feeling of huge admiration for a quirky friend of mine" Eileen-singer-songwriter with Fishing4Compliments

Bandit - Peppermints Don't Hide Everything

CPW MGMT