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When better joy launched late last year, her vivid alt-pop songs brought comparisons to The Cure and The Smiths, but that wasn’t the whole story. Cheshire-born Bria Keely has a voice as colourful as Debbie Harry – a voice that needs to be up front and centre – and a knack for effortless storytelling that owes as much to Phoebe Bridgers or Olivia Dean as to any of her beloved guitar bands.
After a feverish period of creative maturing, she delivers a full-length debut full of personality and off-the-cuff lyrical ease. Heading Into Blue was produced by the legendary Mike Hedges (The Cure, Manic Street Preachers) and features guitar by Travis’s Andy Dunlop. “I might not know myself completely yet,” says the 27 year-old, “but with this music, I’ve landed organically on something that feels completely me”.
Heading Into Blue marks an internal sea change for her: the process of making the album itself taught her to trust her own choices, live with her decisions and simply tell the truth in her songs. In writing and recording the album, she felt something change fundamentally – creative choices came quick and fast. She felt a strong affinity with Hedges, who was adamant that her voice should be brought forward in the mix, and who even understood her unusual sense of musical synaesthesia (“My go-to sound is a kind of pinky purple”), as she strove to paint in brighter and brighter colours.
Ringing, complex riffs winding around Bria’s vocals, dancing bass lines, vibrant and characterful drumming and vulnerable lyrics: this is the sound of better joy.
Bio provided by artist:
When better joy launched late last year, her vivid alt-pop songs brought comparisons to The Cure and The Smiths, but that wasn't the whole story. Cheshire-born Bria Keely has a voice as colourful as Debbie Harry - a voice that needs to be up front and centre - and a knack for effortless storytelling that owes as much to Phoebe Bridgers or Olivia Dean as to any of her beloved guitar bands.
After a feverish period of creative maturing, she delivers a full-length debut full of personality and off-the-cuff lyrical ease. Heading Into Blue was produced by the legendary Mike Hedges (The Cure, Manic Street Preachers) and features guitar by Travis’s Andy Dunlop. “I might not know myself completely yet," says the 27 year-old, "but with this music, I’ve landed organically on something that feels completely me”.
Heading Into Blue marks an internal sea change for her: the process of making the album itself taught her to trust her own choices, live with her decisions and simply tell the truth in her songs. In writing and recording the album, she felt something change fundamentally - creative choices came quick and fast. She felt a strong affinity with Hedges, who was adamant that her voice should be brought forward in the mix, and who even understood her unusual sense of musical synaesthesia (“My go-to sound is a kind of pinky purple”), as she strove to paint in brighter and brighter colours.
Ringing, complex riffs winding around Bria's vocals, dancing bass lines, vibrant and characterful drumming and vulnerable lyrics: this is the sound of better joy.