Tracks which have been played around the world in the last three years on 100s of radio stations and playlists.

VanRay - The Singles.

April 2022 Discoveries.

Many people simply want to hear and enjoy some great new music without having to waste time searching for hours. These Musical Discoveries collections aim to fulfil those needs. At least, we hope so! :)

This playlist is a compilation of the favourite musical discoveries of the Wud Records team from everything they heard at SoundCloud during April 2022.

Tracks have been arranged according to the number of plays at the precise moment of publishing, starting with the fewest. Tracks that are early in playlists tend to receive more plays than later tracks, and we feel that the ones with fewer plays need the best chance of exposure.

This playlist is extremely eclectic, so if the track you are playing isn't quite doing it for you, try the next one. It will probably be completely different.

If you enjoyed listening to something here, please give it a like and a repost. Follow the artist. Give them a shoutout on social media. Check out some of their other tracks. Buy something from them and your support will help them to keep going. Doing any of this will help raise their profile. At the very least you might make their day. :)

Sharing is very, very important !!

Sharing is a massive help for independent artists. They don’t have big corporations and mainstream media saturating every channel with their product. Every independent share counts.

Giving something a ‘like’ is nice, but sharing exposes the artist to your followers. This means that anybody in your community can see and click on what you shared. They can potentially enjoy it as well. It enables somebody new to discover the artist and become their newest fan. You create the chance for that to happen.

If you happen to be on this playlist, please share, and give us a shoutout on your social media feeds - because if we spot it, it gives us another opportunity to repost you and big you up. Please listen to as many tracks by the other great bands as you can, and... enjoy!

See also:
* this playlist at Wud Records: http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/musical-discoveries/april-2022-musical-discoveries
* all Musical Discoveries compilations: http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/musical-discoveries/
* news about this playlist: http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/wud-records-april-2022-musical-discoveries

Downloads help us! :)

April 2022 Discoveries

Doowadu for a Bwabber

As The Century's Defined

Hole In The Fence

Gallows Humour

Elephant

Cloud 9

Verdigris

Ultraviolet Communication's Sophomore album 'Paper Tiger'

Ape & Essence

START 33 1/3 Too Soon was their self produced/distributed EP through their own label GO NOW records. Doing their own promotion they were able get on over a 150 college radio stations top 10, reporting medium to heavy airplay -- 8000 units sold independently. It has been re-mastered with 2 un-released songs

Open Doors

Recorded this Michael Nesmith-penned track back in '04 with my old duo, the short-lived Lucky Spider.

Demos 9-04-04

Different Drum by Lucky Spider

In the darkness, I still see you
Senses sharpened, I can feel you close
But I think you might be better off if I just eased up; you’ve had enough
Of this catch and release, whoa

My pulse is racing, heart is thumping in my chest
And I’m debased but jumping headlong in this mess
But I think you might be better off if I slunk away into the night
Accepted defeat

And I don’t know what to do 
Can’t keep these instincts at bay
But my hounded love for you has turned a hunter into prey

 
Want, then rue ooh, ooh 
Don’t crawl inside my heart, I don’t have any room for you
Want, then rue ooh, ooh 
I’m only stalking you so you can spill my blood 
I am the rougarou


In the dark you cut a figure
Your scent grows weaker and your shadow grows bigger
And for one year and one day I’ve followed, wincing at the pain I’ve swallowed
To stay on your heels

And I don’t know what to do 
I just can’t keep away
But my hopeless love for for you has put my hunger on display

Want, then rue ooh, ooh 
Don’t crawl inside my heart, I don’t have any room for you.
Want, then rue ooh, ooh 
But I’m only stalking you so I can devour  you: I am the rougarou


(guitar solo / musical interlude)


And I don’t know what to do
I just don’t know myself
My only hope for you is that you love somebody else
Want, then rue ooh, ooh 
Don’t crawl inside my heart, I don’t have any room for you 
Want, then rue ooh, ooh 
But I’m only stalking you so you’ll be just like me 
I am the rougarou
Rue ooh, ooh
But I’m only stalking you so I can devour you
I am the rougarou
Rue ooh, ooh
Rue ooh, ooh

Rougarou

This song was composed with imagination as follows: after you walk through ice mountains, you are welcomed by thousands of penguins in an open space. You greet them and walk around with them.

keywords: short, pop, icy, mc-909, 145BPM, progressive, original, sequencer

Penguin

Lyrics:

Autumn sings of  tangerines      
lulls me to an old dream
enriched by the noon’s light 
her eyes rend under my skin

My chest caved in the quake
All through the quiet fallout of fate
Our notebook’s empty spaces
slowly filled with whirling traces

Lost to the war led
By the curls in her head
Breath again into existence
by her bracelets and pendants

Stone after stone
how our castle stood tall
Too close loomed the edge
And the long fall


Like thieves came the night
Days on end without a light
I died there was nothing there
A cold dock, the boatman's fare

Torn where it bleeds the most
Half a shadow half a ghost
This shell the mirror sees
Is it really me?

Like thieves came the night
Days on end without a light
Do the stars still shine above
upholding my right to be loved

Has the devil lost his book
I’m good for every drink i took
I hold your hand, storm your dream
Feel my love, come to me


Across this barren land
a single flower steals the scene
We brought something back 
Beyond all earthly things

And how quickly the sand falls
Down through the hourglass
The shores, such beautiful lies
Too soon the river is passed

stumbled out of this fever dream
On a raft battered by the storm
She showed me we never grow old
She showed me love will keep us warm

And I wrote songs
about her bright quintessence
with all the notes I hear
when listening in her... 
presence

Aika

The Stars Still Shine

From the new album 'Caricature' out now as download or limited edition CD from our bandcamp page.
thecounteracts.bandcamp.com/album/caricature

Life Is Unreal

She reads all day...not wanting to know the world around her. Her comfort is in the books, how they feel and the people she gets to know hiding inside them...
Real life scares her and she escapes as much as she can into her 'black and white world' where her true colours exist.
www.johnnycaddell.com
© Caddell 2017

PENGUIN GIRL...Demo

Night driving (city-life)

Stompin' Last Night On The Barbary Coast (master)

VANRAY, aka Pete Long, is a solo acoustic artist based in West Yorkshire, recording and performing original material and covers at venues across the UK and beyond.
The driving force behind indie band Moonpump and the alternative electroacoustic act Fie! Fie! Fie!, VanRay has been prolific in terms of penning tunes, with many of the tracks featuring on radio stations around the world.
A typical live set features cover versions as diverse as Soft Cell, Bob Marley, Pixies, Rag N Bone Man, James, Neil Young, John Martyn, The Cure, Blondie, Nirvana, Green Day, AC/DC, TLC, and many more..
The release of the new album AS THE CENTURY'S DEFINED and the EPs The First Circle, Stoplines & Byways, A Stones Throw Away and To The Dark Earth in 2021/22/23 has seen tons of worldwide airplay and exciting opportunities for VANRAY.