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For Us By Us is the first single from Webmoms' forthcoming EP of the same name.

Featuring Ghetto Orange & Lottievstheworld
Written and produced by Webmoms
Co-written & additional guitars by Will Eason
Mastered by Glimlip

This is made For Us, by Us!

Webmoms - For Us By Us

Written and Produced by Euan Blackman
Mixed by Tarek Musa @ Musa Studios
Mastered by Graeme Lynch @ 209 Mastering
Photo credit: Stu Price
Ripe Records 2024
With funding from Culture Liverpool/SIF

Lyrics:

Quarter life crisis
I don’t wanna grow old anyway
Cut my hair and I stain my shirt
All the darkness blocks the hurt

Is it always like this?
Struggling with the bills and microwave
Crush the bugs beneath my shoe
Make a wish that won’t prove true

‘Cause I am nothing to you
You’re just a child with eyes of blue
Sitting in a Metro ’95
Windows down keep the dream alive

Small town with nothing
Working 9-5 no extra pay
But I am proud of where I’m from
A little valley where no-one comes

I used to know her mother
She got forced to move out by the state
Corporate greed with a fancy bow
Take a memory, ruin a show

‘Cause I am nothing to you
You’re just a child with eyes of blue
Sitting in a Metro ’95
Windows down keep the dream alive
Oh alive

Oh I am nothing to you
You were my brother I never knew
Sitting in a Metro ’95
Windows down keep the dream alive

I am nothing to you
You’re just a child with eyes of blue
Sitting in a Metro ’95
Windows down keep the dream alive

NOTHING2U

The First Train Home

Vine Song

Can't Catch Me Now!

Dancing On Dynamite

This is the third chapter from my upcoming album, Hearts Get Started. 

This album is a collection of songs written over several years, some of them being my oldest. It feels a little like a puzzle, with each song being its own world and story. When you put them together, they are stepping stones along the way of my musical adventure. I like to think of it as a prequel to our first album Disco Lasers. It's all the music that got me to that point.

Hearts Get Started

I Think I Just Saved My Own Life

yeah i
i usually like sunny days
but lately 
when it's cloudier i'm feeling great
when the grey rolls in
my thoughts begin
to fall apart
this is how it starts

these clouds
are running through the sunny days
and lately
they just can't seem to stay away
when the rain falls in
i feel it on my skin
i couldn't ask for more
i couldn't ask for more

i really love to feel the rain

i couldn't ask for more

yeah i
i usually like sunny days
but lately 
when it's cloudier i'm feeling great
when the grey rolls in
my thoughts begin
to fall apart

i couldn't ask for more

cloudier

Side of the Moon

Hoping to spread a feeling of positivity and inspiration June Holland and friend/fellow artists Jack Ronan release their first collaboration "Happy Now".

Ready to boost your mood and bring a smile to your face? “Happy Now” is the perfect feel-good pop song you’ve been searching for. With vibrant melodies and a touch of jazzy flair, this song is about appreciating the present whilst staying hopeful for the future. The heartfelt lyrics urge us not to give up during tough times, encouraging us to look forward to the good things in life that may be just around the corner...

Happy Now

Happy Now (feat. Jack Ronan)

No Future

High And Wasted

High and Wasted (Radio Edit) [feat. Sock Drawer]

The Jojo Man Band - The Day

Max Bianco’s latest release ‘Sometimes’ superbly showcases his songwriting abilities in his own storytelling manner all set against a background of a haunting yet beautiful melody. The brilliance of the track is allowed to shine, through its sheer simplicity really allowing the vocals to take centre stage. Max’s voice is clear yet emotive and thought provoking and the strumming acoustic guitar is literally like the plucking of your heart strings.    


Max has said of the track:
“‘Sometimes’ is about life really and when the cards dealt don’t match up to anything, but how it's maybe worth taking that risk of going all in again and hoping for a better hand to be dealt next time.” 


‘Sometimes’ was written by Max Bianco and was recorded at The Albion Rooms in Margate with renowned, award winning, music engineer and technician Jason Stafford. Produced by Mark Pickering, head of ARU music department in Cambridge, the arrangements were worked on with musicians Fabian Bonner (double bass) and Sean O’Hanrahan (piano). Mark mixed ‘to the track’ and you can sense this with the space in the final master which allows the vulnerability of the lyrics to truly resonate with the listener.

Max Bianco  - Sometimes

Mirage

Any Trip

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Emmeline is navigating her own sonic aesthetic as a lyrical polymath, fierce experimentalist and storyteller.

Having grown up in a small village in West Yorkshire alongside her father, a poet and playwright, and her mother, who works in radio drama, she has always been fascinated by the power of words. 

At the age of 17, she begun entering spoken word competitions unbeknown to her family and friends, and soon won a national slam. 

Studying English at University, she met aspiring producers and beat-makers at parties and began to layer her lyrics over Soundcloud beats, experimenting by rewriting the words of her favourite songs, and soon amassed a block of demos. By November 2021, she clocked Fraser T Smith, long-time collaborator and producer to Kano, Stormzy, Dave and Ghetts, at a gig, introduced herself, and asked whether he had any advice for the music industry.
Fraser liked what he heard and arranged a meeting with Emmeline and his manager the following day, where they exchanged their creative influences, process and people they were inspired by. He sent Emmeline a beat, and she responded with lyrics within a matter of days. Since then, Emmeline and Fraser T Smith have created music together at a breakneck pace, leveling up each other's limitations at every turn.
 
Her sophomore EP 'Small-Town Girls and Soft Summer Nights' is out now with 70Hz Recordings!

Can't Catch Me Now!

Emmeline

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