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Oo, interesting.

BJSC 84 // Five Iron Frenzy - Into Your Veins: Interestingly enough I first heard of FIF through the Relient K (current entry plug) 'joke' song "Five Iron Frenzy Is Either Dead Or Dying" from "The Bird And The Bee Sides", as a tribute for them during FIF's huge hiatus (it looked like they'd broken up for good I think, FIF were originally a late 90s band and reformed recently), but that was a couple of years before I found "Into Your Veins" which I just found on Youtube - I clicked on the link because I recognised the band name then fell in love with the song.

BJSC 85 // Said The Sky (Feat. Missio) - Nostalgia: Found Said The Sky on soundcloud, they just popped up in my stream (I think someone reposted it idk) with an interesting remix of Owl City's "Fireflies", I really liked it so I looked through a few more STS tracks and it turned out a lot of them were available for free download, Nostalgia just happened to be one of those and I loved the build on it. It's probably one of the more mellow of Said The Sky's discography.

BJSC 86 // Bears Den - Above The Clouds Of Pompeii: I used to share music with one of my previous housemates last year and the year before and "Islands" by Bear's Den happened to be one of them. This is just one of the tracks that really stood out to me.

BJSC 87 // Imperial Leisure - Man On The Street: A couple of years ago I went to see a concert by Backbeat Soundsystem, another somewhat similar artist (more party reggae ska than hip hop ska though, I was actually torn between entering them and IP for this one) and Imperial Leisure were performing at the same gig, not as a support, more of a joint headliner. They were pretty great so I got the album and picked out Man On The Street because I thought it packed a punch, perhaps I should've tried "Untouchable" but idk if it would've done a lot better.

BJSC 88 // Relient K - Cat: I've been following RK for years! I originally heard of them through a few sources- suggestions on Last.fm because I listened to a bit of punk at the time, such as Paramore (who RK have supported before oo), Green Day, Blink 182 and a few others. I also heard of them through Matt Thiessen's songwriting credits, particularly for his work with Adam Young. I got addicted to their Christmas album (that one's a hell of a lot of fun to listen to haha) then got hooked on each of their other albums one at a time, they're legit one of my favourite artists ever. "Cat" is from their newest album "Air For Free", only released late July and it grabbed me on first listen. The cat/dog debate did influence me slightly in my decision but I probably would've entered it anyway, it's legit one of my favourites from their new album. I almost entered it last month but I already had Imperial Leisure and I wanted to be sure about it since it's so new.
I was almost put off entering them because I thought it might be a little cheap with the spin off entry and their moderate success in the US album charts plus I've ocassionally stanned them on here already but I figured most people wouldn't know them so that's the main thing.

BJSC 89// Sœur - Pass Out: I saw Sœur live in August last year playing an acoustic(ish) set with two acoustic guitars (in drop D of course) and drums. They were playing at Bristol balloon fiesta which I went to with my Dad (who lives in Bristol), was a good day, lots of live music and otherwise was a massive fair. The songs sounded incredibly well written so I decided to look them up online when I got home and found that "Pass Out" was the only single (and song) that they'd released, so I got it immediately, loved it and sent it straight to BJSC! Since then they've released a second single "No Fire" and an EP - "What Separates Us", some of those tracks I prefer to Pass Out so if you liked that definitely check out their other songs! Definitely happy this was my first Q.

BJSC 90// Fireflight - Unbreakable: I found Fireflight through YouTube trawling, they seemed somewhat familiar and I think I may have come across them briefly before, I ended up really liking Unbreakable and sent that.

BJSC 91// Copeland - No One Really Wins: About 2 years ago a YouTuber I liked recommended "You Have My Attention" by Copeland, I fell in love with it instantly and bought the album, released back in 2005. It took a while but eventually I got around to giving the rest of the album a third, forth and fifth listen and amongst others "No One Really Wins" stood out as a banging rock track, with the chorus building each time (just drums first time, staccato guitar the second time and all out on the third go). I love Aaron's voice, I think his falsetto is really exceptional and his normal range and tone is also very impressive. I was really pleased it qualified tho it should've done much better in the final. xx

BJSC 92// HONNE - Loves The Jobs You Hate: Can't actually remember how I found this, but I'd had it in my iTunes for pretty much exactly a year when I entered it and this track was my fave. It was definitely an iTunes purchase as well so maybe I got it after I heard a song or two on YouTube. I don't know them from their previous BJSC entry because I don't even know that song that well even now.

BJSC 93// Breanne Düren - Dear Adelaide: It took me ages to decide which song from this EP to send, I settled on Dear Adelaide because I thought it'd have the widest appeal (possibly), I've known Breanne for years from her previous solo work and her collabs with Swimming With Dolphins and Owl City, but Gem is a relatively new EP (2015).

BJSC 94// Port Blue - Up Ship!: I've known this track for years, it struck me on first listen back in 2012, so much so that I played it on repeat around 100 times in the first few days of hearing it. A beautiful, beautiful piano track. Port Blue is another alias of Adam Young aka Owl City, however Up Ship! and most of his other Port Blue work was done either before Owl City's creation or just after (before Fireflies blew up).

BJSC 95// Nu:Tone (Feat. Lea Lea) - Tides: Last fm trawl for this one which in turn lead to a YouTube trawl, after going through several "similar artists" I found Nu:Tone, saw this as the top track (still very small, only a few tens of thousands on YouTube) and really liked the atmospheric sound to it!