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If Cork singer-songwriter Mark Buckeridge evokes any other artist, it has to be perpetual musical kook Daniel Johnston, a man who has little or no time for complicated song structures and glossy production. Like Johnston, Buckeridge has found a better way to express himself.Accompanied only by the light tapping of bongos and some horror flick-style theremin (or sampled equivalent). Buckeridge announces in an impassioned, pitchy croon,’Mama told me to ground myself’, and, thanks to hear trenching delivery, it couldn’t sound any better if he was backed by the London Symphony Orchestra