Stark, minimal, ghostly, and extraordinarily powerful, this third album by the Scottish singer-songwriter concentrates unflinchingly on the ripples that emanate around abusive relationships, particularly giving voice to the voiceless. Joseph’s distinctively quivering, fragile voice, and with the barest keyboard accompaniment or the rare, low heartbeat drum on the harmed, make it all the more resonant. Perspectives move between abused, abuser and third party, and while there’s delicacy to the music, this makes the lyrics at times all the more shocking and hard-hitting: “The way they make you eat the shit out of their hand / as if this is all you’ve known and understand” and “The way they gas lit swallowed it whole / The way they smashed their faces into walls” on the burning of us all. Intense, vital work, recorded at Length’s Studio in the Scottish Highlands with musician and producer Lomond Campbell. Relentless, brave, uncompromising, heartbreaking. Out on Rock Action Records.
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