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Podcast: Sunburnt Country Music
Episode: Billie Rose: Slaying ghosts, making killer songs
Description: Over the past couple of years Queensland artist Billie Rose has been releasing alluring, swirling, sometimes mystical singles including ‘Can’t Bring Back the Dead’ and ‘Black Dress’. Her latest is ‘Slaying Ghosts’ and it’s also the name of the EP that captures those single releases and marks the conclusion of that creative chapter in her life.Themes unintentionally emerged amongst the tracks, give that the others are ‘Heartbreak Subway Train’ and ‘Label Me a Killer’ – themes of darkness and death (as ‘subway’ could be seen to suggest darkness) that are only reinforced by Billie’s voice with its lightness and cla...