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Friday 18 October 2024

Keeley - Beautiful Mysterious

 


Two albums today that I've been waiting to tell you about for a while. We start with Keeley, a band centred around Keeley Moss, although Keeley is a band project with Lukey Foxtrot and Andrew Paresi. It is an absolutely stunning listen.

The beauty of the 31 Reviews in 31 Days feature is that it allows us to stretch out into different territory whilst still satisfying the boundaries of our growing followers. Beautiful Mysterious is a soundscape that covers Indie Pop, Dream Pop and Shoegaze. but isn't afraid to step outside those genres. 

This is more Electronic, but not beats and synth lines, more symphonic taking in Shoegaze and Electro. Moss is also a fine Guitarist and so you get unexpected riffs, Guitar Pop and Jangle. Vocally, it is outstanding gentle and harmonic.



It is also a concept album, but before you run for the hills, this isn't in any way Prog. Just as with the debut album, the subject is backpacker Inga Maria Hauser, a German brutally murdered in Northern Ireland's Ballypatrick Forest in 1988.

This isn't a subject picked at random, Moss is known as the authority on the case primarily through the Radio Show, The Keeley Chronicles. This does sound like dark stuff, but the album is exactly the opposite, instrumentally it is incredibly harmony led and that Vocal just melts you.



There is also individual variety, although this is an album to be listened to from start to finish. You Were The Beauty is almost Americana, Inga Maria's Dream is wonderful 80s Indie Pop and Galloway Princess steps into Classic Rock and Rocks accordingly.

Forever Froze is splendidly poppy with its killer riff and Scratches On Your Face builds and builds instrumentally the arrangement into something akin to the Alan Parsons Project and listen to that solo. The whole piece is memorising, awe inspiring and incredibly listenable.




You can listen to and buy the album here. It is available on Vinyl, CD and as a download.


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