Prima Queen, Cosmorat, Liv Walker, and a new Track Of The Week from Maddie Ashman.
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BBC Radio. BBC Radio. BBC. BBC. Right now, it's the BBC Music Introducing Mixtape with Emily Pilbeam. You're a dirty girl, silly girl. They just want a pretty girl. Laying on your back saying please can I get it girl. Bored kids, poor kids, existential crisis. I want an easy life and this is what I got to give like James Simpson.

I'm tying the jambies in I'm tying the jambies in I'm tying the jambies in I'm from stores and they're from stores And if you're from stores I don't give a Cross around my neck Fingers crossed behind my Will it even matter Hold my breath and cry I wanna pick your windows I don't wanna steal your cars I'm about my You're just standing I'm tying the jambies in I'm tying the jambies in I'm tying the jambies in I'm stores now I'm so so so I'm a hot skit

It's the sound of Cosmo Rat kicking things off on the BBC Introducing Mixtape on Six Music this week. That is called Stealing. And if you ask me, that's the song of the summer just dropped. Move over, Chapel Rowan. Move over, Charlie. Make room for Cosmo Rat. This now from the family Battenberg. I twist my spine and I

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Sterling, new one from the family Battenberg on Six Music. That is called Antita. They are a band from South Wales based in Cardiff. And I've heard a lot about the family Battenberg over the years. So many ace tunes from them. And that one has really kicked me into gear, into getting down to a live show for the family Battenberg.

They say that that track was written in just a day and is an anti-love song. They're going to be heading out on tour of the UK in November. If you want to find out where they're playing, just head to their Instagram to find out more. Hello, it is Emily Pilby and with you on Six Music. It is the BBC Introducing Mixtape. Hope you're doing well. I am here to get your week started with the best new music from the BBC Introducing uploader.

bbc.co.uk forward slash introducing is how you get your music to me if you want to get played right here on Six Music. In the next hour, I'm going to be replaying you my track of the week from last week that came from Formal Speedwear, a band from Stoke who I absolutely love. And I've got a brand new track of the week to play for you as well.

We're going to be hearing from some artists that we've played a lot on this show actually over the past year or so. Got new music from Prima Queen's Play For You from Love Cat as well. And I'm also going to introduce you to some brand new artists like this next one. It is a debut single from alt folk rock outfit Esther's Wife.

Esther's Wife are based in Glasgow. They are influenced by Wednesday, Wonder Horse and Big Thief. I think this is a very impressive debut single. I just wish it was longer than 1 minute 40. Send me more, please, Esther's Wife, bbc.co.uk forward slash introducing. This is Esther's Wife on Six Music and Holy Cow. MUSIC PLAYS

She said nothing but cry. She tears and she tears and she tears.

I have a friend who plays with butterflies But the wings seem to rot in her lover's eyes And I asked her if she noticed her knees were raw And she asked me if her ankle turned to salt And she tears and she tears it down She tears and she tears And she tears and she tears it down She tears it

I cannot bring the tension turning inside. Won't just believe in that.

As I start living it costs again, count me out, once again, me often done You wanna wrestle me, or I'll pull you half with the cut This is all for children to come, question, and not kill me wrong Get to me, ha, get your kids to me, ha It's like some brutal effect, some curiosity You have some here and there, it's your philosophy You get to watch, it is impairing, it's like turning out the light

You put a trail of alarm in someone You know this already but you're wasting your time Like in a vision, like out in the evening it's crying What is that you told me? Connecting, bumping in my eyes Invitation turning inside What took me leaving but

That is formal speedwear and wait, Hatchet gets a new hide. That is my track of the week from last week and I have not stopped listening to that since it came out. They've actually got a very limited run of cassettes available to pre-order of that single via Melodic Records. So limited that

By the time you're listening to this, whether you're listening back on BBC Sounds, it might all be gone. I believe there's a B-side to it as well, which is never going to be heard anywhere. So if there are some left, make sure you grab one. Really looking forward to hearing what's next from Formal Speed, where I will no doubt play it for you here on this show. It is the BBC Introducing Mixtape. It is Emily Pilbeam with you. And it's time for another track of the week for you. Six Music.

The BBC Introducing Mixtape, Track of the Week. And my Track of the Week this week comes from an act that I've been hearing a lot about of late. They've been supported very heavily by their local introducing team, BBC Introducing in Oxford and Berkshire. And they also cite Anthony Fantano, aka The Needle Drop, Jacob Collier and Caroline Polacek as fans of this artist.

I'm talking to you about avant-pop artist and composer Maddie Ashman. This new track from them, it's called Toffee. I think it is just a magical track, totally enchanting and very experimental and brave, I think. I would file this one next to Fiona Apple.

And Maddie says this track Toffee is a track that talks all about what it's like to feel and experience emotions after years of suppressing them. The triumph of tears, the confusion of feeling ungrounded yet so alive. The reality of overcoming mental health challenges is not that it's linear. We take two steps forward and one step back.

I really like this from Maddie Ashman. I think you can definitely hear that kind of triumph running through this track as well. So let's get it on, shall we? My track of the week this week on the Introducing Mixtape from Maddie Ashman, this is Toffee. ♪ Reverberate, forget my ♪ ♪ This dead feel ♪ ♪ Cause I feel like a stray ♪ ♪ Said I'll never know ♪ ♪ You say I kind of hate her ♪

I don't, maybe I don't. If he thought that you'd be swinger stuck in my teeth. Sugar swollen and small. Too precise. And I ran again. Oh, I know it felt so terrible. I'm so impressed by these tears. But with a fat surface.

I've come so far.

Smart track of the week for you this week on the Introducing Mixtape. That is Maddie Ashman and Toffee. I'll be playing that for you on Hugh Stevens' show on Tuesday tomorrow. So you can hear that about, I think it's just after 6pm and then you'll hear that on the Mixtape next week. I'm not with you next week. One of the other lovely BBC Introducing local radio presenters will be covering, but hopefully they'll play that again for you.

Right now, back to the playlist, and I've got a lush new tune to play for you on the mixtape, courtesy of Manchester-based artist Liv Walker. So this is the second single from Liv Walker's upcoming debut project, City Break EP. And this one, when I was listening to it in the uploader, it reminded me a little bit of Lily Allen, and that is no bad thing. It's Liv Walker, New Hands, writer's block on Six Music.

It's been a while since I opened my notepad. Only open it when I'm sad.

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Never trust, nobody never does. Wolf in the sheep, those predators. Stood with the beast in the coal and the seam and the scene and the very us.

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The body, the spirit, the mind.

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It's the latest one from Sheffield legend Franz von on the Introducing Mixtape on Six music. That is called Na Beg. Franz says on this tune, his main aim is to emphasise the importance of cultural pride, growth and to capture the juxtaposition of inner stillness against the external everyday hustle. That is from the upcoming album Take What You Want, which is dropping on the 20th of June. Really looking forward to hearing that record. Everything I've kind of heard from the album so far from Franz von has been amazing.

Absolutely excellent. And it's just like pure jubilation all the time whenever I hear anything from Franz von. So looking forward to that record coming out 20th of June, if you like the sound of that.

We are heading back up to Scotland now on the Introducing Mixtape for a tune to play for you from Pink Wafer. Working with Emily from Lancuna on this. This is a very tranquil song. They say the song encapsulates an obscure love story told from two different sides. This is Pink Wafer, Emily from Lancuna and Kitchen.

I'll be yours to keep. We can do all the boring stuff. You remind me the days of those.

Tonight I'll do something like spiking my own drink. Yeah, I wanna feel something different like a punch up in the kitchen. Instead I got a money friend. I prefer to win our I told, I said I can't pretend. I'm easy going, hearing easy loving. Car in the morning. Tonight I'll do something

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They said they knew the sickest pain.

I really, really like that. From Classic Trucks. That is called Oil on the Introducing Mixtape on Six Music. Classic Trucks is the alias of Joshua Jarman. Whenever I see the surname Jarman, my West Yorkshire head comes in and I think it's someone from the Cribs. It's not. It's the new solo project of the Langhamer singer who was born and bred on the banks of the River Avon, who is also actually apparently one half of local label Breakfast Records.

I have heard so much about Breakfast Records, obviously Get Down Services released some songs through them, Mumble Tide, who we played on the show last week, I think, Eads as well, apparently. So it's no wonder that that is such a great track and that I love it so much. Looking forward to

to hearing more from Classic Trucks hopefully on the introducing mixtape soon. Got another great single to play for you now from Prima Queen. This is from their debut album The Prize which is out now. This is Prima Queen and Meryl Streep. I tried not to cry, tried not to whine. There's just nothing worse than thinking and watching Meryl Streep just to keep you as if I could sleep. Are you still looking now that I'm not your girlfriend? I went to

I guess they'll just erase all the dates from the calendar. A wedding in the States, that new place for dinner. Cause we won't know what's going on with my kids. There was no emergency, the crush and the flames. We used to pair and still think we'd end up calling you. Crying on the phone, it's the habit of missing you. We should know what's going on with my friends. Feeling alone.

I'm moving on to emergency contact and giving you stuff I'm fine till it hits me like a brick in the chest I miss my best friend I'm moving on, what's going on with my friends? Only know I'm with you to get in my stomachs Returning to my old friends, feeling okay, it takes a long You're busy hiding on a clothesline, didn't think so perfect, didn't know you were here

Pain depends on the season. Now a different reason for the ones who we.

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It's the Kukamaras and Clothesline on Six Music. That is taken from their EP Laughing, which is out now. I really like that. Ace Little Indie tune, that reminded me a little bit in parts of the Libertines. They are going to be playing in London, Manchester and Sheffield in September, if you liked the sound of that.

Next up, I've got music to play for you from a feminist queer punk band from Belfast called Problem Patterns. I really rate this latest one from them. I've been trying to squeeze it in the show for a while, actually. So it features Matt Corvette on this, who is the singer of a band who I adore, but I cannot say on the radio. I would love to know how this partnership came about. This tune is a straight up no frills punk rock tune.

They say the track Sad Old Woman is about accepting the inevitable. The older women get, the more they're forced to maintain a certain image and decorum, lest they become grotesque or even worse, invisible. This is Problem Patterns and Sad Old Woman. Sad Old Woman!

Such a sad bear with my friends. You don't make any sense.

Please don't let this happen to you. A woman of a better use. Take it out on the new. Another side of a woman. Take it out on the man. I lose myself in fantasy. Because the sad old man is the one. It's not my energy. Because the sad old man is the woman.

My fears are bluffing, no hurt, no feeling, I'm still starving. My fears are bluffing, no hurt, no feeling, I'm still starving. My fears are bluffing, I'm still starving. Take what you want, take what you want, what you need, take what you want, what you need. My fears are bluffing, no hurt, no feeling, I'm still starving.

♪ My fears are buffing ♪ ♪ My head, my feelings, I'm still numb ♪ ♪ Take what you have, what you need ♪ ♪ Have what you need ♪

It is heavy lungs. Life's a buffet on Six Music. Dead nice to have heavy lungs back. That is from their second album, Caviar, which is out now. They've got a big tour planned across the UK in October. Make sure you get tickets now. Got a few more tunes to squeeze in before the end of the show. And this next one, I've been meaning to play this for you on the show for ages, is a debut single from noise rock band Alive.

from London. They're called Child 3. There's something very exciting about this tune. Kind of keeps me on edge a little bit. It's Child 3 on 6 Music and Give It To Me Now. Give it to me now. Give it to me now. Give it to me now. Give it to me now.

Give it to me now, come on, give it to me Escape in the place where I shall give it to me now Give it to me now, give it to me now, give it to me BBC Radio 6 Music The BBC Music Introducing Mixtape with Emily Pilbeam All up in stride, all nice places Because nobody can call your stewardess Open up your sweat, the key

It's all a dream, a turn, complete All my lipstick fits So come play all the rain round their necks Wine the key, it's all a dream My lipstick's high, fix your cough And when I am malfunctioning Promise that you'll call And visit me on Smithdown Road Hospital And when I finally give an in Break me down for Paul

And you can't give my eyes and limbs to the old junkyard Just keep my heart safe in a jar Keep my sweetheart safe in a jar Safe in a jar, safe in a jar, safe in a jar, safe in a jar And come, kiss off

It's Love Cat and Lipstick on Six Music. That is their fifth single, and I just think each single is sounding bigger and bolder than the last. Big things to come from that band, definitely. Playing a lot of festivals this summer, so if you are at a festival and they're on the line-up, go and check them out. Got a couple more tunes to squeeze in before the end of the show, and I really wanted to play this for you. A lovely tune from Ewan Blackman. This is called Girl. She got the

That's my girl.

Oh, it is a lovely little tune that, isn't it? Ewan Blackman and Girl on BBC introducing your penultimate track on the show this week. I am off on my holidays for the next couple of weeks, so we've got some lovely introducing presenters covering for me. So I'll see you in a couple of weeks. Going to sign out with this tune, which is a track I will absolutely be adding to my holiday playlist. The perfect song for the Barcelona sunshine. This is Gracie Conver and Ma. MUSIC

I don't need therapy. I just want to feel your body next to me. Live together in a house right by the sea. Boy, I always call you mine. We just need some time. Maybe no one has to know. Tell you where she's got to go. I like doing what I'm told. Is this what you want?

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