These Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend – and reviewed by Fresh On The Net’s CHRIS INGRAM this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here.

A word from Del: Hi everyone, welcome back to another week of faves! Thanks first and foremost to our fab readers for helping us to put it together, and to the artists for sharing your talents with us. As always, you can submit a track for consideration to my Islington Radio show drop me an email with a bio and audio file. Clean radio edits only!

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Over to you Chris!

Chris Ingram: Hello and thanks for reading this weeks reviews. In these wonderfully challenging times it’s always good to know a few things can be relied on. Wimbers on the tellybox. England being toasted at cricket. Folk submitting relevant and brilliant music and art to F>O>T>N. Huge thanks to Del, Neil and the team who keep this machine rolling. It’s a pleasure to be a part of something good and positive in a fractured place. Peace On!

ALORIC – Aerial View

This delicious piece comes from the prolific ALORIC. Sweeping all before them in a lyrical power storm “Dream a line through, caught in an ariel view” the refrain and hook which had my heart lurching at the gates.

Sat upon a racehorse readying to run against it all, leaping fences and crying into the winds. What. A. Voice. I’ll be adding a wee tick to my never ending list of brilliant stuff to get into then!

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AMELIA & THE HOUSEWIVES – Narcissist

With a name like Amelia And The Housewives and a song title like this I got exactly what it says on the tin here. Humourful lyrics, jangly guitars, scathing assessments of relationships past and present. There’s tons of gems stashed in this. Like a cake topped with hundreds and thousands.

My particular fave is the opening line “I should be jumping on your bones, but you left me in the rain outside of Waterstones”. Hahahah! Total classic. We’ve had those shabby fights with partners, miserable to the bone, soaking wet and you’d still kiss them then probably still shag them then hate yourself afterwards for being weak.

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BARBARA – Tolerant Nation

WOW! What’s this I hear? Like Bowie, meets Scissor Sisters with Elton joining in when we hear the words “SITUATION”. Whatever is being channelled here its’s fucking great.

There’s a dreamy opening, there’s snappy castanets, there’s just about everything you want when you need cheering up. “I want to raise your expectations”. Hahaha THEN 1.39 Prince jumps in with a sexy guitar solo. I’m laughing with joy listening to this and what a send up from the first two acts. Barbara You’d make a great bill for Fresh on the Net LIVE…

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FEED LA – FAST CASH (Up In Stratosphere)

Next up, taking things down a notch, as we enter the zone snappy drums, keys, trumpet, I’m whipped away to the smoky basement of a bar in Napoli from the film The Talented Mr Ripley. When the bass kicks in then you know you’re hitting the dance floor, tables are getting cleared and everyone is smiling. M

ixed and recorded in Berlin Bloc Studio with D.R. Gahn and J. Odemir on an underground label out of New York led by music producer Jeff Dynamite Feed LA have the minerals to batter any stage and I’d instantly see then on a Chai Wallahs if they come to the U.K.

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JAMES NUMBERE – Unstoppable

Unashamedly pop, funk and anthem sing along with “sticks and stones may break my bones but your words do no harm”. Obviously as an artist our friend James Numbere here has experienced the doubters and haters and has come through other side with smiles, love and defiance.

This self love empowerment just adds oomph to his unbridled energy and situates him perfectly for a tour, more regular airplay and a jaunt around the festival circuits.

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JUSTIN SCONZA – Broken Glass

Justin Sconza is another visitor from across the pond and this time hailing from Chicago. His succinct bio states he writes everything and records it at home on his four track. Power. Coming in at 1:54 it’s perfect for radio play, layered in details, nice self harmonies, tight lyrics.

A good shoe gaze old skool indie feel is the standout initial feels from this track and again pushing further into his work you too can hear further examples of his great work such as Lonely Monica and Your a Rocker.

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KATIE KEDDIE – Bad Guy

“Left the party early” is the haunting opening the this gentle finger picked track. Her voice is lush, like rich, like the moment you catch the grasses over hill on a summers day and it looks like a green sea. Her guitar the dancing dragonflies in the breeze. It’s stop a moment and take it in stuff.

A previous fave on here and no stranger to our audience, Katie Keddie has unsurprisingly had airplay and support from BBC in Nottingham where she hails from and as it’s a city I visit often i’ll hopefully catch her live there soon.

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RICHARD DAVIES – Cat On A Window Sill

This track from Richard Davies is aptly named as this pure musical piece sweeps its tale around like a snoozing cat waiting for its next opportunity to swipe. At a butterfly one minute at your head the next. All the while the sensual swishing of the saxophone. Hip swaying, magical and mystical. As she grins in the sun, half opening one eye you’ll find yourself turning this up on a relisten and I can see what it got the nod this week!

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THE MICRO BAND – Magical Animals

Is it me or does The Micro Band remind you of The Magic Numbers? The indie construction of the track with male and female lead vocals, set to drums and electric guitar. Jaunty, jangly, cleverly written “Everything seems transient, mythical and papery thin”.

Perfectly describes the thrust of the track and also the where and why not just within us but this world as a whole. The delivery is snappy and punchy too and really moves the song along at a gathering pace. A good feeling that we’ll here more from these guys soon. Hopefully names on festival posters in a town near you soon.

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ULA – SO KIND

Last but not least! ULA, “please be so kind to stop. Me from feeling breathless, every time I see your smile around”. This hook is the backbone of this painfully delightful tune in which the vocals tell a sharp, dagger to the heart tale of unrequited lust and love.

The emptiness and sadness and overwhelming loss of losing someone you love not to death but to ending of a relationship is in part a new torture. Especially seeing them around town or on the scene. A suitable ending to a grand old top 10 and very worthy of its place.

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PS from Del: If you’ve submitted a track that hasn’t been picked for the Listening Post, our team has definitely listened to it and there’s no need to send it again: feel free to send us an even stronger track another week. The same goes if you were picked for the Listening Post but didn’t feature in our Fresh Faves.

But if we’ve recently featured you in our Fresh Faves – please wait three months before sending us another track, so we have space to help other deserving artists… For more info see Robinson Has A Good Old Moan.