Recorded with her musical accomplice Alan McGuire, this four tracks mark the return of Irish artist Keeley
Opening with a Tipler remix of her previous EP track ‘Glitter and the Glue’, it maybe emphasises the guitar and includes some breakdowns in the middle – again it reminds BM of Johnny Marr at his (solo) best, and the vocals are glorious as well – “what a mess” indeed! It packs so much into 2mins 30s as well…
Next up is ‘Never O’Clock’, a mid-tempo track which also has some great pastoral guitar lines and is just gorgeous… it’s another song about Keeley’s inspiration, the missing woman Inga Maria Hauser, well it could well be… The instrumentation is complex and recalls maybe Lush at their most melodic…
Third of four is ‘To a London Sunrise’, meandering and the strummed guitar lines have some echoes of The Cure, or something, but really Keeley just owns these songs, they are so well-realised and the influences are just not important – the word BM is maybe looking for here is evocative, of memories, of past lives and the fact she can evoke (!) these emotions on her first couple of releases is just incredible!
The last tune is also the longest, and is again slower in pace – the treated vocal is quite low in register and echoes down the years. Again there is that hint of shoegaze but good god this is can’t really be placed in any genre – hugely impressive!
So overall another resoundingly good release by Keeley and BM really hopes that she can make it to Scottish shores for live dates, sure this would go down very well on this side of the Irish Sea…