The Hollow, by Keeley Forsyth

The Hollow

by Keeley Forsyth

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martin sainty This is just stunning. Haunting, beautiful, out there, unique. Everything that’s right about music. Bring on the release of the LP!!!!

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releases May 10, 2024

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1.	Answer
2.	The Hollow
3.	Come And See
4.	Eve
5.	Turning (feat. Colin Stetson) 02:43 video	buy track
6.	A Shift
7.	Slush
8.	Drag Me Down
9.	Do I Breathe
10.	In The Corner
11.	Horse 03:25 video	buy track
12.	Creature

about

The bleak and foreboding landscape surrounding Keeley's North Yorkshire home seems to inhabit her third LP, 'The Hollow'. The moors, visible from her studio window, impact upon a music that feels made of these places: windswept, rain-soaked and blinking through the low-lit landscape. The album's title derives from discovering a long-abandoned mining shaft whilst out walking - the past lurking within and haunting the present we now occupy. A connection to time that places us within it, facing what is gone and what may come. But also, perhaps that time has no concern as to whether we're here or not.

Keeley's unique elemental voice again sits centrally within this world-building. Her cathartic reflections are exorcisms in song. We hear an artist making sense of her life, willing to expose vulnerability without ever appearing weak. Working again with producer Ross Downes, the LP features Matthew Bourne and Colin Stetson, Forsyth sought to expand both her voice and music. Taking aspects of sacred music, minimalist post-classical, dark ambient, film and theatre soundtracks, she layers her vocals into chamber choirs, applies pitch shifts and other digital processing, moves from clear articulate intention to mumbled numb utterances.

Composer Mihály Vig's score to Bela Tarr’s film 'The Turin Horse' is reimagined as a pressurised outpouring, recasting the everyday within a mythical light of survival and hope. On ‘A Shift’, Mal Finch's protest song ‘We Are Women, We Are Strong ‘, originally sung by wives and daughters in support of the '80s miner’s strikes, is recontextualised in solidarity for an experience of creative labour.

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releases May 10, 2024

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Keeley Forsyth Harrogate, UK

Keeley Forsyth is a composer, singer and actor from Oldham in the north-west of England.

shows

Apr 25

The Lantern, Bristol Beacon

Bristol, UK
May 23

Ica London

London, UK
Jun 8

Muzeum Historii Polski

Warsaw, Poland
Aug 30

Kulturbrauerei

Berlin, Germany

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