These Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and reviewed by Fresh On The Net Editor Benji Tranter this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. APEX JOE MUSIC - I'm Ready To Die Apex Joe describes himself as an entertainer from London. He is a rapper/producer, and also creates & directs his own video productions. The…
Read MoreThese Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and reviewed by Fresh On The Net's Benji Tranter this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. ANNA PANCALDI - Brother Let's begin this week's Fresh Faves with Anna Pancaldi's moving piano ballad Brother. Pancaldi uses simplicity to her advantage here. 1 vocal + 1 piano +…
Read MoreAnother year is almost over, and yet the fantastic contributions to FOTN have not dried up! Nay, indeed the flow of creativity from our contributors, even through the darkest of months, is as strong as ever. And the pick of this week's crop, as chosen by our readers, is reviewed by Fresh On The Net's Benji Tranter. You can hear all these tracks in a…
Read MoreThis week's free downloadable BBC Introducing Mixtape features tunes from the BBC Introducing Uploader by IDLES, NILUFER YANYA, ARCHIVIST, MAVRICK, BRIDIE JACKSON & THE ARBOUR, TEN FÉ, ROBOCOBRA QUARTET, AMETHYSTS, BEWARE! BEWARE!, WOOD BURNING SAVAGES, LAIL ARAD, BEATY HEART, ANIMAL NOISE, TOM LOW, BAD SOUNDS, GOAN DOGS, WIVES OF FARMERS, DAN SHEARS and LAISH handpicked by Tom Robinson. The BBC Introducing Mixtape is a 60…
Read MoreThese most freshest of Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and they are reviewed here by Fresh On The Net's Benji Tranter this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. HONEY STRETTON - The Thrill Of Loneliness Honey Stretton’s new track, entitled The Thrill Of Loneliness, made for a totally soothing and entrancing start…
Read MoreThese Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and reviewed by Fresh On The Net's resident launderette enthusiast Benji Tranter this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. BEST BOY GRIP – Fukushima First up is Fukushima, a slick, cool pop-rock track seemingly chronicling a first hand account of the aftermath of the 2011 nuclear…
Read MoreThese Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and reviewed by musician Benji Tranter this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. BONES GARAGE - Birthmarks Tel Aviv quintet Bones Garage "marry post-punk aesthetics with surf-rock accentuations," in their own words. Their debut single Birthmarks takes its time to get going, but once it does, it…
Read MoreThese Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and reviewed by Fresh On The Net's Benji Tranter this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. ANGHARAD DRAKE - Sword You could almost say that Sword sounds half a world away. Oh wait… This Australian songwriter “combines gentle folk melodies with insightful lyrics” in her own…
Read MoreThese Fresh Faves were picked by our readers over the weekend - and reviewed by Fresh On The Net's BENJI TRANTER this week. You can hear all these tracks in a single Soundcloud playlist here. AMETHYSTS – Wreckers Wreckers is dripping with cave-like reverb - shades of The XX and London Grammar here. Amethysts are led through said cave by the light of a delicate…
Read MoreWelcome to Fresh Faves Batch 158. Our moderators listened to all tracks submitted to our inbox last week, and Listening Post readers voted for their top five favourites over the weekend. The result is these Fresh Faves and, dear readers, this week please welcome Goldsmiths Music Graduate and new Fresh On The Net recruit Benji Tranter to review them for us. You can hear all…
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