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 29 January, 2024 : 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/batchxxx

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.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 516

hell

Losing Your Touch

Go stream it everywhere - hypeddit.com/twinwilliam/enjoytheride

ENJOY THE RIDE

P.I.N.N. (A.I. Disorder Mix)

Everything's Pink

From darkness and loss hangovers were left behind for folktronica duo Hangover Square for peace, sobriety and time to rewire. The new single 'Gone', is due for release 25th February 2024.

In the last year the duo became sober and bounced back from two close friends suicides and Victoria’s own depression. Confronted with so much existential angst. Last year became a springboard for change going back to their roots of electronica and acoustic sounds.

 "We're doing what we love best, creating sad, romantic, cinematic music". The electronics are an integral part of the band both on the recordings and live. Not to replace musicians but to be a musician in their own right. Expect the feel of a Wim Wenders film with Bjork popping up to provide musical interludes. 

Gone lyrically started from the sense of disappearing completely as a person, but then finding there are people who are there for you. It starts with a single voice building as hope returns with the multilayered voices and instruments wrapping around you at the end.

They host gigs in venues as diverse as a graveyards, gothic churches and cinemas. This is two people sounding like a 40 piece ensemble. Reach out and listen with us whilst we take you on a journey to Hangover Square.

Two years in the making the second album ‘Rewire’ follows on from the success of ‘Painting With An Open Heart’. Due for release 28th April 2024.

Rewire

Gone Radio Edit

Soul-stirring Americana, a cinematic take on folk-blues that is a balm for the broken hearted and a swoon-inspiring delight for the lovers.

From darkness and loss,  hangovers were left behind for the peace of sobriety for duo Victoria Bourne and Chris Harper. In the last year the duo became sober and bounced back from two close friends suicides and Victoria’s own depression. Confronted with so much existential angst. Last year became a springboard for change going back to their roots of electronica and acoustic sounds.

“We’re doing what we love best, creating sad, romantic, cinematic music”

The electronics are an integral part of the band both on the recordings and live. Not to replace musicians but to be a musician in their own right. 

They host gigs in venues as diverse as a graveyards, gothic churches and cinemas. This is two people sounding like a 40 piece ensemble.

Reach out and listen with us whilst we take you on a journey to Hangover Square. 

They are two highly experienced professional musicians who have been played widely across the radio including having been playlisted on BBC Radio 2, they have toured extensively across the UK and in Europe.

“It’s an album that meshes electronica and acoustic instruments seamlessly, creating an intricate soundscape for Bourne’s expressive vocals”
– Louder Than War

“I’m very excited to have discovered Hangover Square’s music. Their second album is a triumph of the personal and the experimental, delivering a journey in which one can easily become lost. The mix of Americana and electronica on display is simply stunning” 
– York Calling

'Absolutely stunning, I’ve played them numerous times over and over again’ -- Rick Stuart Roots and Fusion

“…this is hugely accomplished…an impressive calling card…a hangover most definitely worth nursing…” Folk Radio