Includes all tracks selected for the weekly Eclectic Picks Playlist on Freshonthenet in 2022.  

Part 1 - https://soundcloud.com/signalcommittee/sets/new-641413272
Part 2 - https://soundcloud.com/signalcommittee/sets/eclectic-picks-2022-part-2-of

ECLECTIC PICKS - 2022 (Part 1) (Freshonthenet)

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 19th September 2022: 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/batch459

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 459

A Very flakebelly Playlist

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A Very flakebelly Playlist

i remember meeting lauren
i remember meeting ivy
i remember meeting amy, then tara
i remember the first show i saw here
and war pigs in the lecture hall
play that champagne supernova solo again
i'll kill you

all in the wrong order
i remember cleaning up glass
smashing it too
no good mornings
and a reading of this tao lin poem
bring me my wine

i left myself in the river
i left myself in the river

i'm in a good place

i'm thinking of a colour
i'm thinking of the nice things
in the river

'Tower of Babel' was born of humming birds and the three years of viscous river ooze dripping from our mouths. a boschian tale of queer fertility, a line under everything, a nervous glimpse of something scurrying under the bed. all this and more explored throughout its monumental twenty minute runtime. this album stumbles naked from noise rock to hyperfolk, always completely delirious, vomiting darkwave and a kind of minimalism onto your lawn.

the first single is called 'manta ray'. something horrible has washed up on the shore, in your room, at the club, in this dream. in this dream i am running towards some glimmer of moonlight, hollow and completely out of my mind.

i am trying to break through to you, the listener; i want nothing more than to be the swirling vortex of feedback and pop sensibilities that you need me to be. this album is a part of that, i think. i hope there is something for you, no matter how brief. thank you.

in the river

Inertia

Touch

6e titre de l'album à paraître en septembre 2022 
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Touch

Download

Sweet

I Need You To Understand

Write Off

flakebelly // life is such a beautiful thing

https://songwhip.com/flakebelly/behaviours
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My advice to a new soul

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Behaviours

Life is Such a Beautiful Thing

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Life Is Such A Beautiful Thing

Born in the basement of our shop front converted flat 477 AKA BEACH HQ, Zebras Flying is a freshly baked loaf of indie rock served up from our gentle hands to your kind earmouths. It is as direct as it is abstract, as simple as it is nonsensical and above all, the sound of two friends rocking out in their living room and singing about zebras flying and geese turning into handheld devices. Finished last week and released this week, this track has something for the whole family to enjoy! Preach the Beach xxx

Zebras Flying Across The Beach

The Boy In The Diving Bell: A Sonic Exploration of Fragmented Consciousness

Flakebelly's The Boy In The Diving Bell is a profoundly introspective and boldly experimental opus, an ambitious project - conceived as the first part of a sequence of three interconnected albums - that interrogates the essence of memory, perception, and identity. At its core, the album is a collision of acoustic alt-folk and fractured psychedelia, with each element twisted and torn apart, as though pulled through a sonic wormhole.
 
Time itself becomes elastic here - warped, twisted, and shattered through live manipulations of a 1960's reel to reel tape machine, which is treated not merely as a recording device but as an instrument in its own right. Squelches, blurples & the occasional soul-rending screech, are coaxed from its mechanics by playing with the physical tape and manipulating the play, stop, rewind, and fast-forward dials in real-time. These live performances, recorded directly to the track, create ghostly echoes, cascading loops and unpredictable textures.

The album’s tracks weave between surreal brevity and expansive, hypnotic soundscapes. Ambient interludes of manipulated field recordings - wind through trees, mountain burns - are bent and layered into uncanny textures, creating what feel like "postcards from the inside out." These moments are punctuated by flourishes of finger-picked, lifelorn laments, their plaintive tones stretched into kaleidoscopic abstractions.

As a tapestry of alt-folk, lo-fi grunge, and experimental psychedelic sound design, The Boy In The Diving Bell is a singularity where time and sound collapse into pure expression. It resonates as a deeply immersive experience, a journey through the upside down, where acoustic sincerity is continually deconstructed and reassembled into something new.

This is not just music through the eye of a needle, it is a meditation on perception, a voyage through warped temporalities, and a bold reimagining of what music can become when pushed to the outermost limits. Flakebelly invites the listener to lose themselves in this fragmented, dreamlike world, where every note is both a memory and a revelation.

The Boy In The Diving Bell

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At The Prow Of The Lifeboat

A Spy In The Ointment

Rotten

Newspaper Stairs

All About Her

Available to purchase here: https://seadogmusic.bandcamp.com/
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/cabin-fever-blues/1436207300

Seadog - Shell Shocked

Men In Black_ Electronic/ Punk

Indie, Acoustic & Psychedelic music from The Western Isles of Scotland.

Hidden away in the windswept landscapes of the Outer Hebrides, flakebelly shapes songs that wander between psychedelic indie rock, folk-jazz, and the quiet strangeness of the everyday. Acoustic warmth, blues-stained guitars, jazz-streaked piano, and dreamlike textures fold into each other, creating music that drifts between clarity and haze.

His track In Parks Of Tall Trees found its way to Tom Robinson’s BBC 6 Music Introducing Mixtape, a small ripple in what has become a steady tide of restless ideas. From first picking up a guitar in the late 90s and stumbling through those formative songs in the early 2000s - many of which later resurfaced on Apprentice Green - flakebelly’s path has been one of constant diversion and reinvention. The early singles collections - The Orkney Tapes (2022) and The Christmas Morning Outcome (2023) - were restless, experimental documents of sound-searching, sketchbooks where ideas were tested, broken apart, and pieced together again in the pursuit of a voice. Those experiments fed directly into the indie-folk EP Behaviours (2022), the rough-edged Lo Fidelity (2024), and the kaleidoscopic album Apprentice Green (2024), described by SNACK Magazine as “like being Alice in Wonderland, transported through a maze of moments in flakebelly’s imagination.”

Now comes The Boy In The Diving Bell - out now - a 17-track reckoning with past ghosts, unfinished business, and the fragments of memory that refuse to settle. It is a psych alt-folk soup of acoustic laments, fractured tape loops, and warped dreamscapes. Much of the sound was dragged through the teeth of a battered 1960s reel-to-reel, used not as a recorder but as an instrument - reels halted, jolted, rewound, coaxed into blurples, screeches, and ghostly echoes. Mistakes are left in, first takes are preferred, imperfections celebrated. The result is an antidote to the sterilised sheen of digital perfection and the creeping spread of AI-reproduced music: deliberately irregular, defiantly human.

The Boy In The Diving Bell is only the beginning - the first of three interconnected albums, the demos for which are already written. Yet even as that arc unfolds, flakebelly has begun detouring into a very different landscape: a new project built from vinyl samples, drum loops, and dirty guitars driven through vintage outboard gear, cassette recorders, and battered mixers. It is dark, abrasive, and deliberately uncomfortable - sound pushed to the point of collapse, distorted tape glued together with transformer saturation, live mixes through old delay units, dials twisted until frequencies scream. If The Diving Bell trilogy is haunted by memory, this parallel work dives into raw sound destruction and the strange beauty of degradation.

True to his solitary instincts, flakebelly writes, records, and produces everything from his home studio. The result is music that feels lived-in and handmade - always shifting, never fixed, and forever searching for new shapes in the sound.

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"Extensive and wildly eclectic sonic adventures" - Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

"flakebelly is ultimately the sort of the artist we need more of – a genuine weirdo-auteur carving his own path purely for the love of the game." - Lewis Wade, Is This Music?

"Refreshingly individual and very likeable" - Neil March, Trust The Doc Media