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 8th November: 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/batch425

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.

Christmas songs and the like are also not eligible for the Listening Post, although we will collect these into a playlist that will be published on 24 December.

ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 425

A tennis ball in a sock against the garage door
means your sister’s going to leave you alone for a change.

Phew.

Your dad’s watching cricket in a roomful of smoke,
curtains tight against the sun and you’re not allowed in either 
but what you don’t know is that it’s because he’s hung over. 
All you know is he’s scary.

Your mum’s singing Tammy Wynette in the kitchen 
but something in her voice and the song 
is telling you not to go in there just yet. 

There’s a rattle of a magpie; 
you don’t know it’s a magpie, 
it’s just a bird you don’t even really hear.

Holding Space dust in your mouth makes your tongue go sore 
but you do it because you don’t want anyone to know it’s there. 
Pour some more.

You hold on tight to the rough hips of the tree
because you’re balancing on an orange and red striped beach ball.
You admire your toes: you look like a circus girl. 

It’s Saturday and the sun’s gotta burst soon 
and skin cancer hasn’t been invented yet.
You’ve got six whole weeks 
before you have to go back:
you’ll be in the circus by then.  

You might marry Mickey Dolenz.
Or Pete Duel. 
You’ve already got the hat.

Space Dust

a simple song lyrically about the wrench of letting go of something or someone.
Ready to play?

I Can't Let Go

Tim Smith's Cardiacs as an ambient power ballad? With Didier Malherbe from Gong?? My word, yes!

The leader of the starry skies is worthy of laudation! Tim commands love and respect from pondies near and far. The original version is a bit edgier than this one.

Dusters at Dawn features:
Chrissy Renker & Ysabelle Durant (vocals)
Didier Malherbe (sopilka, duduk)
Quiller Rees (keyboards)
Kath Sharman (cello) 
Raph Mizraki (cello, double bass, keyboards)
Jeremy Renals (arrangement, production, programming)

Chrissy Renker & Ysabelle Durant (vocals) are Wednesday’s Wolves. Their special talent can often be found at the coolest events in Oxfordshire.

Didier Malherbe (sopilka flute, duduk) is best known as a sax and flute virtuoso with prog-jazz-rock pioneers Gong. 
With skill, flair and soul he currently plays exotic wind instruments with Hadouk Quartet.

Kath Sharman (cello) and Raph Mizraki (cello, double bass, keyboards) 
are insanely talented musicians. 
Kath has played with the Adderbury Ensemble, and Raph played bass on Jamie Cullum’s first solo album

Quiller Rees (keyboards) and Jeremy Renals (arrangement, production, programming) formed the original Dusters at Dawn in 1985. 
The line up has included bassoon and sax, and Seeweed from Ozric Tentacles on keyboards.

We hope you plug in some headphones and enjoy this music.

Nurses Whispering Verses (Almost Perfect mix)

Expresso by PM Gong live 1980 at Berkeley, Boston MA - 1980 (on cassette)
Composed by Pierre Moerlen
Francois Causse - drums
Hansford Rowe - bass
Pierre Moerlen - vibes
Bon Lozaga - guitar

Expresso (live)

From the new abum LICK THE FUTURE'S LIPS out now 
www.thelittleunsaid.bandcamp.com

The Little Unsaid

Restless and celebratory music

'Bold and different' - The Guardian 

9/10 - ‘A stunning interpretation of contemporary chaos…a gorgeous whiplash of delirium and hazy reveries’ - The Line of Best Fit

★★★★★ ‘Mesmeric. Atmospheric. Totally beguiling’ - R’n’R (R2 Magazine) 

‘Entrancing… songwriting of a real rich quality, all held together by an intensity of approach, by a focus on the emotional weight music can carry’- Clash Magazine

We are pleased to bring you London/Aarhus-based band The Little Unsaid - BBC6 Music regulars and winners of the Steve Reid Foundation Award for Boundary-Pushing New Music – return with an album of raw, restless and celebratory music all brought together while in the limbo of lockdown life, plus an energised live show offering an injection of hope for 2021.

Acclaim for their previous album Atomise saw their sound likened to artists as diverse as Nick Cave (Line of Best Fit), Radiohead, Joni Mitchell and Roy Harper (The Guardian).

The new album LICK THE FUTURE'S LIPS came out in July on Reveal Records (Joan As Police Woman, Lau, Boo Hewerdine, Eddi Reader) and marries John Elliott’s crafted, melodic songwriting with far less conventional elements, through necessity of isolation – from the found sounds of a forest mixed into pounding, beats-heavy electronica to an exultant, life-affirming call-to-arms composed in John Elliott’s tiny South London flat during the claustrophobia of lockdown.

All bound by Elliott’s sometimes intimate, often soaring vocals and visceral, deeply personal lyrics together with string arrangements that recall Warren Ellis’s most heart-rending themes.

The Little Unsaid’s loyal live audience has been boosted by plays on BBC6 Music by the likes of Guy Garvey, Iggy Pop and Tom Robinson; known for shows which involve a rich emotional journey – in 2021 the band will focus on full-on performances and cathartic release, spotlighting straight-to-the-heart songwriting and the sampled elements of the album’s making and driven by excitement to get back on the road and share live music again.

THE LITTLE UNSAID - Act Of Vengeance

Lived

Wilcen & Psicell - Buried Secrets

The band Phoenix rose from the ashes of Argent in 1976 and immediately scored a major label deal with CBS. Their debut album was released to much critical fanfare, and they recorded their follow-up and finest record in 1977. Unfortunately, the musical landscape was changing. Disco was on the airwaves and punk was around the corner when CBS decided against releasing Phoenix’s second album.

The album ‘Out of the Sun’ was recorded at Trident Studios in 1977, and has been lying dormant since. A few months ago John Verity rediscovered the album and set about preparing it for release:

“Bob Henrit, Jim Rodford and I recorded and released our first Phoenix album in 1976 at Trident Studios in Central London and released on CBS Records. We toured extensively to promote the album, fitting in time between shows to write and demo new songs with the intention of getting into the studio fresh from playing live, whilst ‘match fit’, to put a follow-up album together.”
“Our timing couldn’t have been worse…There was a New Wave of ‘Punk’ music on the streets and overnight we were about as unfashionable as you could be on the UK music scene. CBS decided not to take up the option to release a new Phoenix album so these recordings were put on ice.”
“Our management company wanted us to take a different musical direction. Bob remembers this was known to us as “Boston-Foreigner-Styx” though this was very much like what we’d been doing with Argent. We had wanted to be the Worlds first ‘Power Trio’ and came up with one track that would have surprised the hell out of the guys who eventually did it first – it was ‘Day Tripper’ complete with thundering double bass drums and screaming guitars!”
“As a band we set about trying to come up with something new.There followed a period during which we did try new things, and released further singles and an album of new material, first on Rocket Records, then on Charisma Records. For a time, Phoenix became a four-piece, then Jim was offered the opportunity to join the Kinks and left with our blessing.”
“We continued as a 3-piece for a while but though I hadn’t realised at the time, without Jim Rodford the heart had gone from Phoenix. Something special can happen when certain groups of musicians get together, and I think that our ‘something special’ only truly happened with Jim in the lineup.
So, the second Phoenix album seemed to be lost forever but recently by a twist of fate I got the opportunity to look again at these recordings with a view to releasing them over 40 years after they were recorded.
To me they sound as fresh as the day they were recorded, with all of us at the top of our game.”

Out of the Sun

Winds of Change

Next Live Date London Old Blue Last 17th Nov 2021

WEAVING STRANDS OF INDIE, ROCK AND POST-PUNK INTO ONE JUGGERNAUT TRACK


“Punchy, guitar driven songwriting with shades of Foals angular energy, we're also hearing a dose of B-Town promise in their songwriting” - Clash Magazine

“A big indie banger” - Dork

"Addictive indie anthem" - Record Of The Day

"A soaring indie rock upheaval full of feverish energy and raw, radiant passion" - Atwood Magazine

"Continuing to generate buzz" - CLOUT


Rising anthemic indie quartet FLOWVERS have shared their new single 'Flowers' - listen here. 

A slow burner that builds up to an epic crescendo, the new single weaves strands of indie, rock and post-punk to create a colossal four minutes much akin to the sound of Talking Heads meeting Kings Of Leon in their more intricate moments. 

Explaining the track in more detail, the band elaborate, "'Flowers' combines all elements of FLOWVERS. past, present, and future. Weaving between guitar subtilty and sudden impact-wall of sound, with our intention being to create our most interesting and progressive track to date. The reoccurring critique of ‘not liking the way the flowers are going/ things are going’ only solidifies the emotions found in previous single ‘Far Away’."

Another juggernaut track from the four-piece, it follows on from previous meteoric single 'Far Away'. A song that oozes with the same frenetic energy once present during the 2012 B-Town indie scene, the mammoth single was praised by Clash Magazine, Dork, Record Of The Day, Atwood Magazineand CLOUT to name but a few.

Whilst many bands are still finding their feet in a post-pandemic music industry landscape, FLOWVERS have taken it in their stride, using lockdown to develop their sound, which has since presented them with some fruitful opportunities. Earlier this year the Portsmouth band appeared on Scruff Of The Neck TV on Twitch - as part of a mammoth weekender celebrating new bands from up and down the country - and released of their Old Chapel Demos EP, which included key single 'When It Comes To It' being added to the X-POSURE List on Radio X.

This summer they also played at the iconic Isle of Wight Festival, appearing on the This Feeling stage, sold out shows on a headline tour around the UK, had their music played on Soccer AM and appeared in the studio at talkSPORT Radio for an interview.  

FLOWVERS' growing hook-laden sound has seen them become regulars on BBC Introducing in the Solent as well as garnering support across the board on music blogs. They've amassed over one million streams on Spotify after featuring on their New Music Friday and Hot New Bands playlists, whilst live they have played shows with the likes of Swim Deep, JAWS, Black Honey, Another Sky and Coach Party.

Flowers

Flowers by FLOWVERS

Out Of My Hands

Gates

Summer Rain

Make A Wish

Time

Milagre Dos Peixes - Milton Nascimento
Giulia Guido - Vocals
Ivor Goldberg - Guitar, Programming
Recorded July 1988 - Golders Green, London
This recording was made using very basic equipment of the period:
Fostex 4 track cassette recorder
Yamaha QX5 sequencer
Roland TR626 drum machine
Synth - DX7 or similar
Guitars are played live
Mixed to high quality tape cassette.
Transfered to digital in 2020 and mastered by Freddy Williams

Milagre Dos Peixes

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London based artist producing alternative pop sounds. Influenced by many different and varied artists including The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Prefab Sprout, Stereolab, too many to mention but aim to combine as much into something a bit different.

Out Of My Hands

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