Eilish Gilligan is a songwriter and feelings-feeler from Melbourne.

There is an athleticism to Eilish’s performance – you can tell there’s craft there, a certain training and sense of discipline that’s hard to cultivate without years of work. There is power in her vocals, but restraint, too; She knows that an emotional gutting is done better with a whisper than with a yell. Her masterful sense of control brings to mind Bat For Lashes & Kate Bush – like both those iconic pop auteurs, Eilish has a keen sense of how deeply devastating a lone voice and some synths can be.

New single ‘The Feeling’ flexes a different muscle, pushing the latent unease of ‘Here’ into overdrive. While her 2016 singles lived on the ocean floor, ‘The Feeling’ finally breaks the surface of the water. It is Eilish’s version of a pop hit, breakneck production given nuance by her haunting vocal. Her 2016 singles placed her voice in the back of your mind, but ‘The Feeling’ finds Eilish branding her name onto the skin of Australian pop music.