Keeley - Beautiful Mysterious - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2018 . Years solidifies the point Sarah Shook & The Disarmers have moved from getting people's attention to commanding it. The bands' new album-with it's sharpened songwriting, unique perspective, deepened sound and roll-up-your-sleeves attitude-will grab you by the collar and put a defiant finger to your chest. It is resolute, blunt, and unflinching.

Girl on the Edge of the World, the third full-length album from Anglo-Irish dreamrock trio KEELEY, is the most eclectic and most expansive Inchsonic odysseyInch yet from Dublin-born singer-guitarist-composer Keeley Moss and her cast of collaborators - producer Alan Maguire, bassist Lukey Foxtrot and former Morrissey drummer Andrew Paresi. Also featured are two very special guests on backing vocals - Shoegaze and Britpop royalty Miki Berenyi (rich, Piroshka, MB3) and Sice (The Boo Radleys), both of whom KEELEY has supported on tour in the UK during the past year.A bubbling cauldron of Indie-Rock, Shoegaze, Dreampop, Post-Punk, Ambient Electronica and pastoral Psychedelia, Girl on the Edge of the World is the most immersive and most alluring realisation yet of Moss's singular songwriting vision. The limited edition 2xLP comes in a gatefold jacket pressed on sky-blue vinyl, housed in a 4-colour inner jacket and featuring a 6-track bonus 12Inch called InchLost MagicInch featuring four amazing non-album tracks and two solo-electric versions of songs from KEELEY's 2023 acclaimed debut InchFloating Above Everything ElseInch. The CD edition features the 12-track album in a gatefold digipak that comes with a 4-colour folded lyric insert. KEELEY undertake their first full-length headline tour of the UK in February and March in support of the album. The band has become a favourite on the UK live circuit having opened for Desperate Journalist, The Boo Radleys, Miki Berenyi Trio, Echobelly, Terrorvision, The Primitives, Northside, Inspiral Carpets, House Of All, The Woodentops, and pre-eminent Smiths tribute band The Smyths.

Vivian Girls Memory - During their initial run as a band, Vivian Girls were a band of outsiders for outsiders. The ones who loved The Wipers as much as Burt Bacharach as much as The Shangri-Las. They were the band that made the punks feel like they could sing harmonies and pop fans could get in touch with their anger. Cassie Ramone's lyrics alternated between love, loss and rage. They were heart-on-their-sleeves romantics in one breath and a spiraling explosion of feedback in the next. After their third album - 2011's Share the Joy - the members of Vivian Girls parted ways and the band who had known each other since they were teenagers, went about the business of living. Katy Goodman and Ali Koehler both moved to Los Angeles, continued making music (La Sera for Goodman, Best Coast and Upset for Koehler) and started families. The trio began playing together again during the spring of 2018 and by October Memory was recorded with producer Rob Barbarto (Kevin Morby, The Fall). Memory is an album filled with personal reflections on toxic relationships, the false promise of new love, mental health struggles, and finding ways to accept oneself amidst it all. Fittingly, the sonic textures of the album match this sense of desperation and longing. It's a loud, snarling journey and there's a sense of streamlined direction and intensity to the performances it sounds like a band returning to a core idea of itself.