Keeley Forsyth - Hand to Mouth - VINYL LP

The songs comprising Keeley Forsyth's debut, are, she states simply, Inchlike blocks of metal that drop from the skyInch. Minimal arrangements place that elemental voice front and centre. Nerves are quietly frayed over it's running time; an intimate document of personal change, we're held in limbo until the final note is left to ring. Debris explores the darker corners of domestic life, balancing the need to create with the responsibilities that come with a family, a partner and a career. Seismic ruptures behind closed doors. InchThere was a lot going on in my life that was heavy and hard,Inch she adds. InchSongs were made under that moment.Inch Born and raised in Oldham in the north-west of England, Forsyth first made her name as an actor. Her enigmatic voice is so indelible even she is sometimes provoked to refer to it as a third person, like the characters she's inhabited as an actor, this time populating songs sharing tales of the high and low tides, of freedom and entrapment, and of hard-won triumphs. InchThey've been in my mind for a while,Inch she concludes. InchI have sung them to my children, and at home alone, and making this album has been an opportunity for me to discover the voice and being who sings these songs. It has changed me, and will continue to. I recognise my life again.InchA1. DebrisA2. Black BullA3. It's Raining A4. Look To YourselfB1. LostB2. ButterflyB3. Large OakB4. Start Again

Keeley Forsyth's 2020 debut album found an elemental voice ringing out from beneath the rubble. Understated but devastating, Debris' success led to a transformation as the songs were brought to the stage. An innate performer, Forsyth found herself channelling 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.Anyone who saw Forsyth perform in the brief window after Debris was released and before shows ground to a halt can testify to the show's power. In pin-drop silence, enraptured audiences watched as Forsyth inhabited a new body. No stranger to portraying characters in her career as an actor, this was something different. Limbs is a record of reckoning with that change. After the initial purge of Debris, those feelings of trauma and fear remain but there's also a life to live. InchSave me from the chair where sadness lies,Inch she sings on opener 'Fires', wrestling the need to be creative within the routine of daily life. Where Debris was composed and recorded in close proximity to instrumentalist and arranger Matthew Bourne, Limbs deploys a more expansive palette. With Forsyth at the centre, collaborator Ross Downes acts as another limb, remotely producing the pulses and drones which feed back into the voice. Bourne this time is enlisted to InchBring some of the soil of DebrisInch into Limbs. The result is clear and more spacious. If Debris sounded like it was buried under the earth - Forsyth's voice repressed and breathless - Limbs brings some of that live presence.1. Fires2. Bring Me Water3. Limbs 4. Land Animal 5. Blindfolded 6. Wash7. Silence8. I Stand Alone

Dungen, torch bearers of Sweden's rich and fabled history of pastoral psychedelia, return with en är för mycket och tusen aldrig nog, the band's first full-length album since 2015's Allas Sak. Creating their own critical and fervent, fan-based lane for guitar-powered, melodic and magisterial rock 'n' roll with their 2004 break out album Ta Det Lugnt, Dungen have since left a staggering array of albums and a prodigious live presence in the embers of their burning wake. en är för mycket och tusen aldrig nog (English translation InchOne is too much and a thousand is not enoughInch) finds Dungen's core four members Gustav Ejstes, Reine Fiske, Mattias Gustavsson, and Johan Holmegard in pure form, their now decades deep collaboration in total focus and elevated to new heights unobstructed by the spirits that once haunted and shaped the band's music.