Keeley is back with her third album Girl On The Edge Of The World that like her first two ep's and then albums Floating Above Everything Else and Beautiful Mysterious is dedicated to the search for and prosecution of the person who murdered Inga Maria Hauser on her first day in Ireland in April 1988, this forms part of Keeley's super extensive research into the still unsolved murder that can be found at https://thekeeleychronicles.wordpress.com/ it now has 99 chapters. She also contributed to the documentary Murder In the Badlands and BBC's Spotlight programme. This time around Keeley is joined by Lukey Foxtrot and Andrew Paresi and guest vocalists Miki Berenyi and Sice. The album was produced by Alan Maguire in his Dublin Studio.
The A-side is Part One The Magic Maze with Inga Maria Hauser leaving Dusseldorf by train again. Hungry For The Prize of adventures abroad inter railing across Europe of 1988 headed for England and her sad destiny, to become one of the longest unsolved murders in Irish history, the atmospheric meshing guitars swirls around you as she gets on her way.
Crossing Lands has a dark bassline and early wire style buzzing guitars, driving on her sense of adventure, snapshots of diaries from a girl with a taste for the world, who accidentally takes the wrongest turn of all. Some great guitar effects add colour to the fun she has exploring herself and Europe.
Trains And Daydreams featuring Sice from The Boo Radleys, while she sits daydreaming out a train window, going on a bold journey of discovery intoxicated by reverb heavy guitars swirls, stations fly by, dreams of greater days ahead.
London Fields is stripped back reflections on where she might be by tea-time, maybe wandering up Graham Road towards Dalston finding a chip shop with space invaders machines to play on. Big Brown Eye's Featuring Miki Berenyi leading her on through her journey in London, enjoying the last days of her far too short life, this has a down at heart pain of what's still to come.
The B-side is Part two The Tragic Phase sitting on a train looking around and all the people looking at you not knowing the tragic end that you're heading towards. Girl On The Edge Of The World sitting on that ferry heading into Larne to meet your fate, when all you really want is to see the world and enjoy discovering new places. She can feel the change in atmosphere as Ireland approaches, a slow dirge repeating She Went To Larne, if only she hadn't stepped off that ferry.
To Bring You Back she has arrived and walks down the stairs breathing the fresh Irish air, slow mysterious guitars for that man who speaks to her and what makes her get into his car never to return, if only we could answer that question to help To Bring You Back, she has journeyed 800 miles to get to this nadir.
Fell In Love With A Ghost is pretty much Keeley's journey in trying to unravel what happened after that car ride. The Movie Of Our Yesterdays a film of a momentous week that has the worst possible ending, over the searing searching guitar lines flows the pain of re-treading Inga's steps across Europe, breathing life back into her.
The album closes with Daydreams And Trains with a station announcement stating that Inga didn't get on the train to Dublin and asks if you saw her can you get in touch. She's left the world behind, when she should have had her whole life ahead of her, now Keeley's life is intertwined with hers, totally consumed by the need to get to the truth of your pointless tragic murder, on that April day in 1988 before the song drops out and Inga Maria Hauser sings part of Take Me Home Country Roads acapella a short coda that feels heartbreaking in the circumstances.
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