We are debuting the new video for ‘Hungry For The Prize’, the new single from Anglo-Irish trio KEELEY, fronted by force of nature Dubliner Keeley Moss. The video was filmed and directed by Glasgow-based photographer and film-maker Laura Meek using vintage VHS film techniques to capture the kinetic travel theme of the song’s narrative. The track is evocative and cinematic, cycling with a swirling psychedelic backdrop, it’s a heavy layered atmosphere breathed to life by Moss’s vocals that reverberate with redolent loss, tenacity and experience. Watch it below.
It’s the second single from their forthcoming third full-length album Girl On The Edge Of The World, which comes out February 20th via the Definitive Gaze label, and is the first to feature Keeley’s touring bandmates – bassist Lukey Foxtrot and drummer Andrew Paresi, who played on Morrissey’s first three solo albums. It’s also the first album to feature guest vocalists – Miki Berenyi (Lush, Piroshka, MB3) on ‘Big Brown Eyes’ and Sice of The Boo Radleys on ‘Trains and Daydreams’. The album was produced by longtime KEELEY studio collaborator Alan Maguire at his Dublin studio, and features 12 new songs.
Girl on the Edge of the World takes the shape of “a film for the ear” from a unique perspective, that of teenage German backpacker Inga Maria Hauser, whose murder in Northern Ireland in April 1988 on her first solo adventure away from her parents remains unsolved. Her case is a cause Moss has kept alive over the past decade in her long-running blog The Keeley Chronicles, on BBC TV’s Spotlight programme and in an episode of the BBC/Netflix documentary Murder in the Badlands. Regarded as an authority on the case, Inga’s short life and tragic demise have become the subject of KEELEY’s entire discography to date.
A swirling and cinematic sonic tapestry laden with an undertone of melancholia, ‘Girl on the Edge of the World’ is immersive and evocative; it’s the most consistent realisation yet of Moss’s singular songwriting vision. “This record is the first time we’ve managed to capture what I call “the sonic swirl” in our sound, the sound I’ve had in my head all along,” she says.
A new documentary about Keeley Moss and her involvement in the Inga Maria Hauser case is currently in production from the makers of the acclaimed film From Scotland With Love (2014).
The album’s limited edition sky-blue vinyl edition comes with a bonus 6-track 12” EP called ‘Lost Magic’ which further explores aspects of Inga Maria’s short life.
Album pre-order options can be found at this link: https://ffm.to/keeleygirl
ON TOUR
Wed Feb 18 LONDON LVLS, Hackney (Headline show)
Thurs Feb 19 COVENTRY Tin Music & Arts (Co-Headline show)
Fri Feb 20 BRISTOL Exchange Basement (Headline show)
Sat Feb 21 BOURNEMOUTH The Bear Cave (Headline show)
Wed Feb 25 BRIGHTON The Rossi Bar (Headline show)
Thu Feb 26 HULL New Adelphi (Headline show)
Fri Feb 27 HUDDERSFIELD Amped (Headline show)
Sat Feb 28 GLASGOW Hug & Pint (Headline show)
Sun Mar 1 NEWCASTLE Cluny 2 (Headline show)
Sat Mar 21 NORWICH Waterfront (Supporting The Smyths)
Sat Apr 18 FOLKESTONE The Quarterhouse (Supporting The Smyths)
Thu Apr 30 TODMORDEN The Golden Lion (Headline show)
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