KEELEY FORSYTH 'Limbs'

'Limbs' is the follow-up to composer, singer and actress KEELEY FORSYTH’s debut album 'Debris'. 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'. '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. “Save me from the chair where sadness lies,” 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 “Bring some of the soil of Debris” into 'Limbs'. The result is clearer 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.