Kathryn Joseph

Kathryn 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).

WE WERE MADE PREY.

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.
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 fuck up your life,” the Glasgow-based singer/songwriter has come out the other side with something new to say.

"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