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Soundtrack of Our Lives: Eilish Gilligan takes us through her fascinating musical influences, plus we review her epic EP ‘Hospital’

Melbourne’s Eilish Gilligan is a one person tour de force who has bloomed during the harsh (but ultimately very successful) lockdowns in Victoria. She has been releasing some stunning singles…

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Soundtrack of Our Lives: Tom Joshua

TOM JOSHUA is a young singer-songwriter from Stockton-on-Tees, who’s set a course to seduce us with sweet and emotive, well-sculpted guitar and piano-led songs such as the autumnal fragility of…

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Soundtracks of Our Lives: Elisa Ambrogio of Magik Markers

MAGIK MARKERS came hurtling at us from a Connecticut basement in 2001, full of fire and noise and dirt and excellence. Back then there were four of them: singer-guitarist Elisa…

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Album Review: Lisa Caruso release the highly impressive debut album ‘In Feelings’ and shares her favourite music.

The tracks on Lisa Caruso‘s new album ‘In Feelings’ provide a gloriously impassioned tableaux for emotion and pain: honestly expressed and rendered with a theatrical flourish and a hint of…

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Soundtracks of Our Lives: Mt. Doubt

EDINBURGH’S Mt. Doubt is the musical vision of Leo Bargery. The band have been picking up regular airplay on BBC Scotland and 6Music; has shared a stage with names such…

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Meet: We chat with Johnny Hunter and find out about wasted youth, putting on a show and the soundtrack of their lives. Plus tour news.

Last month I was highly impressed by the debut EP ‘Early Trauma’ from Sydney band Johnny Hunter – it’s a new new wave for our times. So impressed was I…

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Soundtrack of our Lives: Pixy Jones of El Goodo

YOU MAY not have taken a dive into an El Goodo album; that, I’m afraid, may be a flaw entirely laid at your own door. OK, they don’t work to…

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Soundtrack Of Our Lives: Paul Molloy

PAUL MOLLOY is something of a psychedelic pop gentleman around town. He wielded six strings in a later incarnation of The Zutons, who of course gave us that song for…

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FEATURE: Soundtracks of our Lives: Liela Moss

BEGINNING back in 2005 with the fine English psych-swamp rock charge of The Duke Spirit, Liela Moss has grown into being one of the UK’s most forthright and potent voices,…

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TOP TEN: Fair Mothers’ Kevin Allan picks the albums that made the difference

Aberdeenshire's Kevin Allan releases his second LP of this most universally fraught year today, August 7th. Valentine's Day brought us 'Separate Lives', which was necessarily championed by Stuart Maconie on his 6Music Freakzone. 'In Monochrome' is an absolute stunner, we find. Raw, chilled, unblinking in the face of life, Kevin makes promises no answers. But what he does do is communicate with you, proffer you emotional information; learn alongside him. 'In Monochrome' is unflinching and visionary; it's one of the essential albums of 2020, sayeth us here at BSM.

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