Fires
England’s Keeley Forsyth returns with the latest album Limbs.
“Going to a church // Where sadness lies.”
Forsyth’s lyrics evoke without determining their subject matter in too fine detail. The result is a kind of brooding ambiguity, which might become ponderous in another artist’s hands, but Forsyth holds the line with skill. Her vocals are cutting, a scalpel drawn over the bare flesh of strings, synth, and samples.
Shades of Scott Walker in his dark & dreary mode. Shades of Druid ritual. In our highlighted track “Fires” Forsyth throws us into a world that repels as it compels, like a nightmare from which we can’t wake.
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