Spring 2019

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Choices of the Grasshopper May 2019

Any artist is welcome to send us a track via freshonthenet.co.uk anytime between Monday lunchtime and Thursday morning - and all our moderators, including Tom Robinson, will listen to every track. This is our full inbox from the week beginning Mon 6 May: from midday on Friday 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/batch324

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. You will be able to resubmit the track in future.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 324

New Indie June 2019

Real love

please support our debut single here: https://theartistunion.com/tracks/1fe64b

Written, recorded, and produced by Donald & Tiger in a basement in Echo Park, CA.

Mixed by Tony Lash & Isle&Fever
Mastered by Brian Lucey
Cover Art by Jenna Josepher & Ege Soyuer

Inquiries: isleandfever@gmail.com

Free Download

EP Sampler

Written, recorded, and produced by Donald & Tiger in a basement in Echo Park, CA.

please give some <3 on Hype Machine: http://hypem.com/track/2gvas/

add on spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/5xO65R3ZH9qIAsMLn8xE3h

Mixed by Tony Lash & Isle&Fever
Mastered by Brian Lucey
Cover Art by Jenna Josepher & Ege Soyuer

Inquiries: isleandfever@gmail.com
Vinyl EP Release on Stratford Ct this summer: https://isle-fever.bandcamp.com/

Dime Piece

Written, recorded, and produced by Donald & Tiger in a basement in Echo Park, CA.

Mixed by Tony Lash & isle&iever
Mastered by Brian Lucey
Track Art photographed and designed by:
Tramaine Townsend | insta: @misadventures

Inquiries: isleandfever@gmail.com

www.facebook.com/isleandfever/
islefever.com/

Keep On

On his debut mini-album, ​I’m Never Really Here​, ​darvid thor (The Cactus Channel, Frida, Karate Boogaloo) explores what it’s like to make music alone. After playing and writing in bands for over a decade, ​I’m Never Really Here​ is darvid’s first solo venture, and it finds real solace in the solitary.

These songs might seem just dreamy on first listen, with their meandering guitar lines and warm, woozy synthesisers, Thor’s voice at turns a light falsetto and a warm tenor but ​I’m Never Really Here handles material that’s sometimes heavy with a light touch. At times anxious and quietly anguished, tender and candid, these are songs about a growing-up, a breakup, and everything in between. There are traces of Darvid’s soul influences and undergrad jazz degree here, but most present are the wide array of indie and alternative acts that have been influencing his singing, playing, and production: catchy and understatedly complex, these songs both sparkle and stutter.

Darvid recorded ​I’m Never Really Here ​alone in his bedroom — but for some drum/percussion help from Cactus Channel bandmate Hudson Whitlock on lead single ​“Rest of Your Life” and drum production from housemate Max Dowling (Yelderbert, Tetrahedra) on ​“overgrown” — over the course of a year or so. Having spent most of his musical career as an integral member of The Cactus Channel and Frida, Thor saw a solo project as an exhilarating, if daunting opportunity to learn more about himself, as a musician and as a person.

His sweet melancholy of jangly guitars and warbled synthesizers have afforded support from ​Beach Fossils​, ​Danger Mouse​, ​Double J​, ​Triple J Unearthed and ​Indie Shuffle, to name a few. Live, Darvid expands his setup to a four-piece band including Lewis Coleman, Levi Heeringa & Hugh Rabinovici.

I'm Never Really Here

Can I Be?

We're Not Broken (Camino 84 Remix)

New single - Island Girl
by Teanna Bianca featuring Cross Blood

Island Girl ft Cross Blood (Prod Certi)

Cold head, hot sheets - big windows all I need
Deep breath, morning - the possibilities 
One day some sense might bless our heads, entropic and divine 
Locked in, big win - thrilled and thrown aside 
So bad at reacting - bleeding out the cause
We’ve been talking way too much, we’ve been acting way too tough
It’s slow, big snow - trickles in a row
Good news, half truths - just paint me blue and oak
I’ll put my mouth where my hand out is - slamming on the door
Slow kiss, hard miss, attracted to the glow 
So stop. Heard you said you never were one to fight or get mixed up 
But it’s been dragging on and on. Yes, we’re so bad … 
At reacting -  bleeding out the cause
We’ve been talking way too much
We’ve  been acting way to tough
We’ve been slighted, we’ve been stung
We’ve been warned and we’ve been wronged

Reacting

No Quit

Haunted Items #1 (Release Date: March 13, 2019)

Spotify: https://u.subpop.com/Haunted-1_Spotify 
Apple: https://u.subpop.com/Haunted-1_Apple
Sub Pop Mega Mart https://megamart.subpop.com/releases/frankie_cosmos/haunted_items_1

Frankie Cosmos: http://frankiecosmosband.com/ 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FrankieCosmos/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/frankiecosmos
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frankiecombos/?hl=en

Sub Pop Records: http://www.subpop.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/subpop
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/subpoprecords
SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/subpop
MegaMart: https://megamart.subpop.com/
Podcast: http://subpop.fm/

Frankie Cosmos - Dancing

A new single from Monteagle. 

Stream & Purchase Monteagle's debut album "Midnight noon" firetalkrecs.com/shop/monteagle

Monteagle is the solo moniker of Justin Giles Wilcox - best know as chief songwriter in Nassau and now defunct Tennessee band Moonlight Bride. The later of which had some early looks, collapsing just on the brink of break out success. Paste Magazine calling Wilcox’s delivery in a “Best of What’s Next” feature “tremulous, bare-souled vocals, which are as haunted and alluring as the caves that riddle the rocky hills of the band’s hometown.” Monteagle, named for a mountain inside those hills marks a re-birth for the now well seasoned indie rock vet. Expanding on the more ethereal, dreamy inclinations of past work into something closer to the history of those hills.

Monteagle - Master (Hidden Valley)

Written and performed by Where We Sleep (Lead guitars by Axel Ray)
Mixed and mastered by John Cranmer

The new EP, Experiments In The Dark EP is Available now:
https://wherewesleep.bandcamp.com/album/experiments-in-the-dark-ep

The Desert (featuring Axel Ray)

Fortune

Recorded at Premises Studios
Produced by Neil Goody
Mixed by Rich Cooper
Mastered by Robin Schmidt

Past Tense

Just Yours

Magnetic Pull

The Change It Brings
From Close Talker's forthcoming record 'How Do We Stay Here?', to be released August 30, 2019.

Under exclusive rights to Slow Weather and Sinnbus.

The Change It Brings

Annie I sold your namesake
You’ve fallen to a new school of thought
Everyone’s got their camera
Primed and poised for the money shot

All dressed up in your new clothes
Stand up front and don’t even dance
When I’m a person of interest maybe
You’ll give me a second glance

Well it’s not the mother’s milk that drives you mad
It’s the singing of the fashionable and bad while I
Go to sleep through the 
Light and the heat

You’ve got no taste or talent
Queen of the standing room
You took all Annie’s edges left her
Nice and round for you to consume

Well you know there’s one success that’s ironclad
It’s the singing of the fashionable and bad and now
No one cares for what
Isn’t theirs

It’s so cool to care now, Your heroes will let you down
I don’t have a lot to prove, You’ll soon be the new old news
I don’t know when why or how, But words cut me deep somehow
I drink in the afternoon, And dream of that silver spoon

Well if you look close enough at your sycophant circle jerking
Desperately trying to understand the numbers
Middle of the night what do people like
They just don’t like me I think that
I could be anybody, anybody that you want
Annie in my ears and nobody is on my 
Side you’re a pretty thing such a pretty thing
Drown my sorrows cough up my
Sins with the could-have-beens
Sins with the could-have-beens

Vocals, Guitars, Sax, Piano + Synths by Francesca Pidgeon
Drums + Percussion by Jack Mee
Bass by Aaron Collins-Wood
Trombone by Tim Chatterton
Screams by Gina Walters, Jon Horner + Owen Lamont
Mixed, Mastered + Engineered by Chris Mulligan

Ironclad

Bec Sandridge EYES WIDE

Vacation With Bond In South Of France Part 2

Really excited to share my new single with you all this week, hope you like it.

Stream: https://fanlink.to/BenjiLewis_Away

Socials:
www.facebook.com/benjilewismusic 
@benji-lewis-1 
twitter.com/MrBenjiLewis 
www.instagram.com/mrbenjilewis

Publicity:
http://www.mammalsounds.com

Away (Original)

Landslide

Feelin' Kinda Fragile

Fifth song off "Calendar", out on May 31st!
Artwork by Eli Wengrin
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And while my time goes by
I’m still here 
I float around
The sky is black and white
A summer in progress

A rainbow that curves space-time
An octagon fills my eyes
I wash my hands with vapor
I am looking for gators

I stupidly think I’m fine
The reason I’m still awake
And Shiva warns me
"Sam, I fear that you’re still alive”

While Asia is pretty vast
The bamboo tree we’ve just passed
Is a memory that will last
I feel like a chloroplast

On an hong kong hike
I walk with monkeys by my side
Come with me
Let’s go inside a cloud

And if I’ll ever get sad
I am special
Please don’t be mad
Forget Immanuel Kant
And bury me as a plant

On an hong kong hike
I walk with monkeys by my side
Come with me
Let’s go inside a cloud

Just Yours

Ponytails