Keeley Forsyth - Photograph

The Leaf Label

£10
~~£12.58~~

Genre: Singer-Songwriter
Format: 12” + DL
Catalogue No.: DOCK74
B/C: 843190057467
SALE: 27 Nov 21

- The second release from composer, singer and actor Keeley Forsyth.
- Debut album Debris was released in January to huge acclaim, and we’re expecting a strong showing in the end of year lists.
- For fans of Nico, Scott Walker, Aldous Harding, Karen Dalton, Susanna & The Magical Orchestra, Jenny Hval, PJ Harvey, Cat Power, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Fever Ray.
- Pressing of 500 copies

Keeley Forsyth follows up her critically lauded debut album, Debris, with the Photograph EP. Across four tracks the domestic tensions remain, albeit taking a more introspective view. Forsyth’s striking vocals are cocooned within otherworldly synthesisers- they transport her words across continents before snapping back to the room. The walls closing in .There’s an aching sense of detachment, which resonates with the circumstances in which it was written.

“I always work from home,” Forsyth explains. “This time, the isolation had a new influence on my lyrical ideas. I was contemplating the idea of homesickness within the home; when life is lived on the domestic grid, in rooms and in tasks. I was looking to reframe the day, to give sound to the picture.”

Photograph takes two steps on from Debris’ electronic closer ‘Start Again’. Continuing the fruitful working relationship with composer Matthew Bourne and bringing Trestle Records’ Ross Downes into the fray, it hints at the vast possibilities open to Forsyth on her next album, and also brings the late period Scott Walker comparisons into focus, with traditional song structures giving way to something more expansive. Cloaked in darkness but seeking surreal beauty and art in the debris of modern life.

The track ‘Photograph’ is released digitally on September 30th and is accompanied by a startling video directed by Ross Downes
Forsyth has toured with Julian Cope and Ben Watt, and will return to the stage in 2021 – including a Queen Elizabeth Hall show with Watt
Previous single ‘Start Again’ found its way onto the BBC 6 Music playlist
Forsyth will return to the stage in 2021
Support from Mary Anne Hobbs, Maxine Peake, John Doran, Laura Barton, Stuart Maconie and Late Junction

12”
A1. Photograph
A2. Unravelling
B1. Glass
B2. Stab

On Debris:

“[Forsyth’s] album Debris is one of the most remarkable in years”
The Sunday Times

“Debris is an astonishing debut, not just for the power of the songs, but for the journey they trace”
8/10 Uncut

“A shivery descendent of Scott Walker’s Tilt, a more unsettling older sister of Aldous Harding’s Designer”
The Guardian

“This deeply melancholic brand of haunting, sparse folk is as intoxicating as it is unsettling”
4/5 Q

“An arid and beautiful debut”
7.6 Pitchfork

“Reminiscent of Nico, or Karen Dalton, Beth Gibbons at the edges - leaving the deepest impression”
4/5 Mojo

“This really is breathtakingly good”
Electronic Sound

“Melancholic, contemplative and deeply devastating… If more debuts in 2020 are this good it’ll be a fine year”
8/10 Loud & Quiet

“Otherworldly: think Karen Dalton, Nico or Anohni”
8/10 Long Live Vinyl

“A brooding, melancholic listen”
the Quietus

“It may be only January, but Debris gives the overwhelming impression that one of the defining releases of 2020 may already be upon us”
9/10 Music OMH

“Debris can join Nick Cave’s last two albums as the soundtrack to your loneliest moments, the hand you will want to grasp when you come apart, a voice that will touch your sadness and change your world tonight”
9/10 God Is In The TV