KEELEY, fronted by Dublin-born singer-guitarist-composer Keeley Moss have released their acclaimed third album, Girl On The Edge Of The World – a concept album of brilliant post punk shoegaze built around the story of Inga Maria Hauser, the German backpacker whose murder in Northern Ireland in April 1988 remains unsolved. The atmospheric song cycle explores the story on many levels and draws you into an emotional vortex.
KEELEY follow Floating Above Everything Else and Beautiful Mysterious with a “a film for the ear,” again influenced by Inga Maria Hauser, the German backpacker whose murder in Northern Ireland in April 1988 remains unsolved.
On the new album KEELEY writes from the teen’s perspective as documents what would turn out to be the final week of her life across a dozen tracks. A true story which Moss has mapped out with painstaking research into Inga’s movements and by retracing her steps in meticulous detail.
When asked about her muse and the singer explains, “I’ve often been asked why I choose to write about only one subject, and one that might seem macabre to the uninitiated, but to me, Inga’s story is full of hope, vitality, beauty, mystery and poignancy. I felt a burning compulsion to make it my mission in life to memorialise her short life any way I could, and I approach each song from a different angle every time. It’s an endless source of inspiration to me. I suppose I could write in a conventional way about love, angst and the like, but that’s not me. I don’t have relationships, I don’t have holidays, pets or even a TV. Music is everything to me, it’s the greatest thing in the world, and the visionary vessel through which I connect to my muse and facilitate the flow of songs that provide a vehicle for her voice”. The album itself is a step on sonically from the previous albums, the time spent on the road both headlining and supporting various artists obviously paying dividends. The soundscapes cover many genres from Indie Rock to Post Punk, calling at Shoegaze, Dreampop and a dash of Ambient Electronica along the way.
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