Kathryn Joseph
Intimate, fearlessly frank and with a fathoms-deep emotional resonance, Joseph’s highly individual expression was first heard on 2015’s Bones You Have Thrown Me And Blood I’ve Spilled which bagged her the Scottish Album of the Year award. Her follow up From When I Wake The Want Is, is of an equally devastating, understated intensity in terms of her heavily rhythmic piano work, striking vocals and vivid lyrics, but with a newly muscular edge and textured depth.
made and lost her
grey eyed daughter
my bones want her
salt mouth water
know I know you
are loved and show her
by this leaving
you are still born
breathing.
made and taught her
grey eyed daughter
my heart bleeds her
out and feeds her
darkness grown
in love not shown
by this leaving
you are still born
breathing.