Sam Corcoran
First album you ever bought: Sam’s Town by The Killers. It had my name on it.
Album that made you love music: Definitely Maybe by Oasis. Love them or hate them, the Gallagher swagger made me realise that music was cool.
Shower song: Currently a mumbled mash-up of Kendrick Lamar’s ‘i‘ and ‘That Lady’ by The Isley Brothers.
Your music taste in a sentence: A smoothie of jazz, dreamy production, crunchy guitars and Bon Iver’s facial hair.
3 songs you’re hooked on: ‘Elevator Operator’ by Courtney Barnett, ‘Crazy Dream’ by Tom Misch, ‘Armageddon’ by Wayne Shorter.
First album you ever bought: Let Go by Avril Lavigne. No regrets.
Album that made you love music: Not so much an album, but watching School of Rock (over and over) was definitely a pivotal moment in the formation of my love of music.
Shower song: ‘Bloody Motherf***ing A**hole’ by Martha Wainwright, a much more beautiful song than its title would suggest.
Your music taste in a sentence: David Byrne and David Bowie’s imaginary collaboration, produced by AK and Jai Paul.
First album you ever bought: Green day’s American Idiot and Eminem’s Curtain Call also the day I heard my first swear word.
Album that made you love music: Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. Just draw dropping, and still as smooth today as it was in 1959.
Shower song: ‘Staying Alive’ by the Beegees or ‘Tired of Being Alone’ by Al Green – perfect acoustics for some shameless falsettos.
Your music taste in a sentence: If it sounds nice and isn’t produced by David Guetta then I like it.
3 songs you’re hooked on: ‘Birch Tree’ by Foals, ‘Wait for the Moment’ by Vulfpeck, ‘Bruh‘ by Lil Dicky.
Juliette Rowsell
First album you ever bought: The Trick to Life by The Hoosiers – 50p from Woolworths, still a modern classic.
Album that made you love music: I remember stumbling across ‘Wonderwall’ by Oasis. Twelve year old me was so astounded she cried. Yes, I’m cringing as much as you are.
Shower song: ‘Come and Get Your Love’ by Redbone and the entire Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack.
Your music taste in a sentence: The kind of music you want to listen to nostalgically on the top of a cliff with a bottle of wine
3 songs you’re hooked on: ‘No Woman’ by Whitney, ‘Moonage Daydream’ by David Bowie, ‘Somebody Else’ by The 1975.
All editors are also big fans of badly photo-shopped images, procrastinating all work in favour of music as well as listening to, discussing and living for music.
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(Images: Wikipedia, Sam Corcoran, Jemima Skala, Robert Cairns, Juliette Rowsell)