British singer-songwriter Katherine Priddy will release her sophomore album The Pendulum Swing on February 16 2024 - the follow-up to her highly acclaimed 2021 debut The Eternal Rocks Beneath, which announced Priddy as a singular new talent on the contemporary roots music scene.
She has already released the first single from the new album, First House on the Left. Speaking about the track and the wider themes on the album Priddy said: “Despite its soft and dreamy sound, this song provides the cornerstone around which the album and its themes orbit. It’s inspired by the little old house where I grew up and all the memories captured within those four walls - both for me and for all the other inhabitants who’ve lived there over the centuries.
"It might just be another terraced cottage to passers by, but to those who’ve called it home, it’s everything.
The album title The Pendulum Swing is taken from a line in this song and describes the urge to leave and the even stronger urge to return - something I’ve felt a lot in recent few years as I’ve tried to carve out a corner for myself elsewhere, but always found myself wandering back, craving the comfort and nostalgia of the past.
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"It also sums up this second album as a whole quite nicely - my songs have matured since my debut, seeing as most of those were written in my childhood, but despite moving forward and feeling the need to do something different with this second release, I still can't help but return to those fundamental, unchanging things at the root of it all: home, family, love.
"Overall, I wanted this song and the album to feel lived in, and this is captured in part by the ghostly atmospheres, mechanical clockwork sounds, creaking floorboards, indistinct whispers and old tape recordings of my family that are littered throughout. I want to invite the listener to come in, sit down and inhabit the album for a little while, and this song is right at the heart of that.”
Priddy will play The Stables in Milton Keynes on May 7, 2024 as part of a headline tour in support of The Pendulum Swing.
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