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new album WE WERE MADE PREY. out now

 headline tour of the UK starts in Scotland next week

 + EU dates supporting Mogwai

 

“WE WERE MADE PREY. makes a loud sound out of Joseph’s intimate, eldritch songs, with producer Lomond Campbell adding big synth licks to her electric piano patterns” – 4*, The Scotsman

“Seething electronic undercurrents dredge depths of barely concealed rage” – 8/10, Uncut

“Joseph’s most entrancing release, a project that puts her Hobbesian vision and poetic leanings on full and unadulterated display” – 8/10, The Line of Best Fit

“The evolution in Joseph’s work is restless and searching” – 4*, The Skinny

“Brutal and beautiful by equal measure, Campbell’s sonic wizardry enriches the stark magic of Joseph’s songwriting like never before… her most distinguished triumph to date” – 5*, NARC

“We Were Made Prey is an intense, haunting listen. It’s Kathryn Joseph’s finest album to date and hints at even more exciting things to come” – 4.5*, Music OMH

 

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 with producer 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).^[1]

 

 

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