There’s no escaping the arcane aura of It Hit Me Like a Bullet, the most recent launch from the award-winning up to date Americana people duo, The Gillies. By shimmering organ tones that swell across the association and seraphically panoramic vocals, the one welcomes Americana Folks house on London’s streets. The Gillies – Susan Turner and Mark Evans – have lengthy been revered for weaving steel-strung and tenor guitars into haunting odes to like, loss, and tangled relationships. True to their fame for creating ‘music in your graveside’, they set uncooked feelings free with out straying into useless theatrics.
It Hit Me Like a Bullet is salvation in sound, an invite to have a tendency psychological wounds regardless of how uncooked. The imagery the cinematically intimate association conjures transcends the greater than a thousand phrases phenomenon, unchaining the soul, giving it permission to really feel as free because the breezy melodies throughout the monitor.
If you know the way it feels to search out your toes after life broadsides you with perpetually unravelling perplexity, discover your peace within the genuine euphony of It Hit Me Like a Bullet. The Gillies, whose earlier works like ‘6am’ earned accolades similar to Greatest Single within the GSMC Music Awards 2023 and choices for Fatea Journal’s showcase classes, proceed to affirm why their understated melodies and timeless themes resonate on each native and worldwide levels.
It Hit Me Like a Bullet is now obtainable to stream on all main platforms, together with Bandcamp.
Evaluation by Amelia Vandergast