Keeley Forsyth shares video for new single ‘Wash’
KEELEY FORSYTH SHARES VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE ‘WASH’
NEW ALBUM LIMBS OUT 25 FEBRUARY VIA THE LEAF LABEL
UK TOUR INCLUDING THE BARBICAN’S MILTON COURT IN MARCH
“Nobody else is making music, so spectral, elegant and bruised, quite like this”
9/10 Loud and Quiet
“Another stunning album”
9/10 Uncut
“Remarkable”
4/5 Mojo
“A highly compelling listen that holds you rapt from start to finish”
Electronic Sound
Watch the video for ‘Wash’ here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zXIIGiDo-4
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Keeley Forsyth‘s second album Limbs will be released on 25 February via The Leaf Label. The album follows her 2020 debut Debris which was a breakout success, with features and prominent end of year placements from The Guardian, The Quietus, Loud and Quiet, The Line of Best Fit and more.Having already shared videos for singles ‘Bring Me Water‘ and ‘I Stand Alone‘, she today follows up with the final video ahead of the album’s release, this time for ‘Wash’. The track was produced in collaboration with Grammy Award-winning percussionist Evelyn Glennie. Where ‘I Stand Alone’ – the album’s closer – finds Forsyth standing in quiet defiance at a journey’s end, on ‘Wash’ she falters. She struggles to remain on her path as heartbeat-like throbs swell and drift away and she pleads “just let me fade”. The video is again produced in collaboration with Ross Downes and Neil Cain.
Speaking of the track and video Forsyth says:
“Evelyn’s work with the serpent cymbal, produced a unique, mournful, metallic sigh that colours the whole track. With the vocal, I wanted to open my throat and swallow that emotion. The lyrics came with this process, instinctive
and impulsive.”
“The video takes place in an absurdist purgatory, which exists with its own logic and where a confrontational high stakes game is playing out. This is directly in homage to the work of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett, where the protagonist is caught in a situation not fully understood or explainable.”
Keeley Forsyth’s 2020 debut album found an elemental voice ringing out from beneath the rubble. The success of Debris led to a transformation as the songs were brought to the stage. An innate performer, Forsyth found herself channeling something she hadn’t yet fully come to understand, and it was here that the voice found on Debris began to probe outwards and discover a physical form. It’s a form that fully takes shape on her second album Limbs, produced by Ross Downes and with previous collaborator Matthew Bourne brought in to, “bring some of the soil of Debris“.
Anyone who saw Keeley Forsyth perform after Debris can testify to the show’s power. In pin-drop silence, enraptured audiences watched as Forsyth inhabited a new body. Limbs is a record of reckoning with that physical body.Forsyth has a short run of UK dates this spring, which culminates with her biggest show yet at The Barbican’s Milton Court venue on 11 March. This year Keeley will also perform at Green Man Festival, Sea Change Festival and has been specially commissioned for a new piece for New Music Biennial. Dates and details below.
Photo credit: Sophie J Stafford
High-res images can be found here.
Pre-order Limbs here on CD and vinyl including limited indie and Bandcamp only editions:
keeleyforsyth.com/
Limited edition (500 signed and numbered copies) Dinked edition with alternative ‘inverse’ sleeve, 12-page photobook of stills from ‘Bring Me Water’ and printed inner sleeve is available from selected stores
2022 Tour dates:
4 Mar – Glasgow @ Glad Café
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6 Mar – Leeds @ Brudenell Social Club
10 Mar – Bristol @ Strange Brew
11 Mar – London @ The Barbican, Milton Court
21 Apr – Rotterdam, NL @ Motel Mozaique
22-24 April – Coventry @ New Music Biennial
26 May – Totnes @ Sea Change Festival
1-3 Jul – London @ Southbank Centre – New Music Biennial
18 Aug – Brecon Beacons @ Green Man Festival
Tickets are available here:
keeleyforsyth.com/live
Praise for Limbs:
“Nobody else is making music, so spectral, elegant and bruised, quite like this”
9/10 Loud and Quiet
“Another stunning album”
9/10 Uncut
“Remarkable”
4/5 Mojo
“A highly compelling listen that holds you rapt from start to finish”
Electronic Sound
“Stark beauty […] all vocal textures and doomy drones”
Evening Standard
“Hugely evocative, the song seems to offer a complete world in and of itself”
Clash
“Beguiling and darkly seductive; you don’t realise the full enrapturing effect of the song until it lets you go in final minutes”
Beats Per Minute
“Moodily bleak, but beautifully so”
The New Cue