Neon Hitch - Eleutheromaniac (2015)

In May 2014 Neon Hitch announced via a live chat that after almost four years she had parted ways with Warner Bros. Records, and that her 'Beg, Borrow & Steal' album had been scrapped. She also announced that she would be releasing a new album titled 'Eleutheromaniac', and that her mixtapes, 'Happy Neon' and '301 To Paradise' would be released to digital retailers on 20 May 2014. On 4 August 2015 she issued a new single, 'Yard Sale', which she said represented her moving forward and letting go of her past, with the yard sale being symbolic of her selling all her past belongings. In January 2015 she released 'Sparks' as the first single from 'Eleutheromaniac', and in March she released her EP '24:00' for free, as a surprise release, and which she'd recorded in 24 hours. The EP was followed in April by the digital release of 'Eleutheromaniac', the title track of her debut album, and in August by a new song titled 'Pussy PowR', which was made available on YouTube and for free download. In May 2016 she announced the official name of her debut album would be 'Anarchy', which was a different project than the previously mentioned 'Eleutheromaniac', and that this would be released on 22 July 2016. It was preceded by the lead single 'Please', and when the album appeared it did not include any of her previously released material, although it did include a remixed version of 'Freedom' from the 'Eleutheromaniac' sessions. With the scrapping of a second set of songs, Hitch finally released her debut album six years after first signing a record deal, and so to rescue all the work that she'd done up to that point, here is the scrapped 'Eleutheromaniac' album from 2015.   

Track listing

01 Yard Sale 
02 Freedom
03 Sparks 

04 Wall St. 

05 Fresh Out The Box

06 Warner Blvd.

07 London (feat. Jon Bellion) 

08 Eleutheromaniac 
06 Like Fruit
10 Salt & Honey
11 No Angels

12 Colors

13 I'm Doing Me

Neon Hitch - Beg, Borrow & Steal (2011)

Neon Hitch was born on 25 May 1986 in Kingston upon Thames, before moving at a young age to the countryside of Nottingham, and she resented her parents for her birth name of Neon, and wanted to change it to something more conventional, but eventually decided to keep it. When their house burned down, her mother bought a caravan to live in, and they grew up in a Romani community travelling around Europe, and consequently she never attended school. By the age of four she was travelling and performing with the Archaos circus, and by the time she was in her teens she was trained as a trapeze artist, fire swinger and stilt walker, and had performed across Europe. She'd begun writing poetry when she was 10, which led to her writing lyrics, and a boyfriend noticed that she could sing and encouraged her to carry on with her singing. In 2010 she was signed to Warner Bros. Records by Kara DioGuardi, and she began recording her debut album, 'Beg, Borrow & Steal', in March with Benny Blanco. In January 2011 she released the promotional single 'Get Over U', co-written by singer Sia, for free, and then to digital retailers in February. This was followed by 'Silly Girl', 'Bad Dog' and 'Poisoned With Love', and she also released a series of covers and mash-up covers of songs by other artists, including Wiz Khalifa's 'On My Level', Waka Flocka Flame's 'No Hands' and Kreayshawn's 'Gucci Gucci'. 

During 2012 she released the official lead single of 'Beg, Borrow & Steal, 'Fuck U Betta', followed by 'Gold', co-written by singer Bruno Mars, and both songs peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Songs chart. In January 2013 she announced her next release would be the EP 'Happy Neon', which was released for free through Billboard.com on 14 January. On 12 November 2013 she was featured on campus.ie, where she revealed that she and her team had completely scrapped the 'Beg, Borrow & Steal' album because she said she "felt there was not enough of my soul in it", and she discussed the release of a mixtape called '301 To Paradise' in early 2014, saying that the mixtape was a very good preview of what was going to come out on her brand new debut album to be released later that year. The six-tracker was released on 3 January 2014, and it was produced and co-written by NYC-based hip-hop group and songwriting duo Kinetics & One Love, and features two verses from rapper Kinetics. With the demise of 'Beg, Borrow & Steal', Hitch started work on new material for her debut album, but enough tracks had either been released as singles or leaked online to piece it back together, and so here is Neon Hitch's abandoned first album 'Beg, Borrow & Steal' from 2011. 

Track listing

01 Intro (Beg, Borrow & Steal)
02 Hello 
03 Bad Dog 
04 Silly Girl 
05 Fuck U Betta 
06 Poisoned With Love 
07 Picasso
08 Gold (feat. Tyga) 
09 Get Over U 
10 My Hand
11 I'm Doing Me

12 U + Me
13 Zombie (I Just Wanna Dance)
14 Dare U 2 Love Me