Kathryn Joseph today releases her eagerly anticipated fourth album WE WERE MADE PREY., available to stream and buy in digital, CD and red vinyl 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 withproducer Lomond Campbell, recording took place in the remote Black Bay Studios on the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides last winter.
Listen to / buy WE WERE MADE PREY.
Joseph’s fourth album is both a reaction to and reprieve for the animal within. Eleven songs that accept her whole being, with all its hunger, lust and rage, and its devastating tenderness too. Through her hunt for answers to punishing choices, “the kind that can absolutely f*ck up your life,” the Glasgow-based singer/songwriter has come out the other side with something new to say.[1]
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).
Joseph has announced a full UK headline tour for the autumn, taking in 12 dates across England to follow her run of Scottish dates next month.
In between, she will return to the road in support of labelmates (and bosses) Mogwai for a run of European shows in August-September.
Lomond Campbell will be performing with Joseph at all shows.
Kathryn Joseph tour dates
05 June – Aberdeen Lemon Tree
06 June – Isle of Skye – Skye Gathering Hall
11 June – Glasgow St. Luke’s
12 July – Inverness Under Canvas Festival
02 Aug – Newport-on-Tay Lugnasadh Festival
25 Jul – Thirsk, North Yorkshire – Deer Shed Festival
09 Aug – Edinburgh – The Hub @ Edinburgh International Festival
24 Aug – Cumbria Krankenhaus Festival
31 Aug – The Hague, Paard (w/ Mogwai)
01 Sept – Nijmegen, Doonroosje (w/ Mogwai)
03 Sept -Malmo, Plan B (w/ Mogwai)
04 Sept – Gothenburg, Pustervik (w/ Mogwai)
06 Sept – Helsinki, House of Culture (w/ Mogwai)
08 Sept – Tallinn, Helitehas (w/ Mogwai)
09 Sept – Riga, Palladium (w/ Mogwai)
10 Sept – Vilnius, Kablys + Kultura (w/ Mogwai)
11 Sept – Warsaw, Progresja (w/ Mogwai)
13 Sept – Budapest, Reflektor Festival (w/ Mogwai)
14 Sept – Prague, Lucerna Music Bar (w/ Mogwai)
15 Sept – Vienna, Vienna Arena (w/ Mogwai)
16 Sept – Zagreb, Tvornica Kulture (w/ Mogwai)
18 Sept – Lausanne, Les Docks (w/ Mogwai)
19 Sept – Munich, Muffathalle (w/ Mogwai)
20 Sept – Cologne, Live Music Hall (w/ Mogwai)
16 Oct – York, The Crescent
17 Oct – Bristol, Strange Brew
20 Oct – Brighton, Green Door Store
21 Oct – Norwich, Norwich Arts Centre
22 Oct – Nottingham, Metronome
23 Oct – Coventry, The Tin Music & Arts
27 Oct – London, Omeara
28 Oct – Manchester, Deaf Institute
29 Oct – Sheffield, Sidney & Matilda
30 Oct – Birkenhead, Future Yard
01 Nov – Hebden Bridge, Trades Club
02 Nov – Newcastle, Cluny 2
Tickets are on sale now via kathrynjoseph.co.uk