KATHRYN JOSEPH
Kathryn Joseph announces her fourth album WE WERE MADE PREY. due for release on 30 May 2025 via Rock Action Records.
WE WERE MADE PREY. dances on the knife-edge: of action versus inaction, of want versus wanting, of self-fulfilment versus shame. Continuing her creative partnership with for you who are the wronged producer Lomond Campbell, recording took place in the remote Black Bay Studio on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides last winter.
“What you hear on the record is not how I heard it at first,” she says. “The songs were angry, but they were angry in a small way. Until Lomond added all this beautiful noise, then all of a sudden they were angry in a much bigger way, in an exciting way, and so full of want. Everything he did was perfect. I’m so unbelievably lucky.”
Joseph’s pursuit of truth is the red thread that winds through each of her albums. It’s there among the agonising beauty of bones you have thrown me and blood i have spilled, her Scottish Album of the Year Award-winning debut. It’s there, too, in 2018’s from when i wake the want is, sewn into the primal grief and grasping of the songs. And it made its presence felt again in 2022’s for you who are the wronged, Joseph’s powerful exploration of abuse in all its twisted shapes and guises, acclaimed for its “luminous brand of minimalism” (Pitchfork) and as “an outright masterpiece of emptiness and full-to-bursting-ness at the same time” (The Quietus).
