Dublin Based dreamy indie act Keeley have released two ep's that I was sent as a package, so I am reviewing them together. The Ep's are produced by Alan Maguire and are dedicated to the memory of Ingrid-Maria Hauser the murdered German backpacker whose Murder remains unsolved more than 30 years since that fatal day in 1988. Keeley has been writing about Ingrid-Maria Hauser's murder in 1988 since 2016 on her website The Keeley Chronicles
https://thekeeleychronicles.wordpress.com/
Brave warrior Ep by Keeley
This ep opens with The Glitter And The Glue a pretty straight forward indie rock song with a dark lyrical undertow as she's stuck in the gutter looking for a way out and also looking at the events that led to Ingrid-Maria Hauser's tragic demise.
Last Words is a musical blog post of a traveler and backpacker on the road just arriving in Ireland looking for a place to stay, an experience many of us had, while travelling back then, this has a haunted edge to it, hoping the hotel or hostel or B & B will be clean and safe. There is a taut sense of foreboding in the swooshing guitars and drums towards the end.
Never Here Always There is a song that wonders what was said that sparked off the killer, this slow reflective song of love for the victim and hope that somehow her memory can be kept alive and finally her murder can be solved.
You Never Made It This Far is a song from Dublin for a traveler who was heading there, along the road on her trip when tragedy struck, she didn't get to see Dublin or live her life to the full as she had been doing. This is a moving tribute and this certainly makes me want to read more than the one episode of The Keeley Chronicles I've read so far.
Echo Everywhere by Keeley
This second ep opens with The Glitter And The Glue (Tipler remix) about a messy relationship that's falling apart at the seams, as she's down in the gutter looking for a way back, over some cool indie guitars That on Paul Tipler's re-mix sound brighter than on the original mix on the first EP. This will work as a sing along to get the crowd shouting "what a life what a mess" back at Keeley as the search for who Killed Ingrid-Maria Hauser Goes on.
Never O'Clock has a psychedelic indie feel as we find out why it's Never O'Clock and all the ways life has failed her, it has a quite dreamy quality as Ingrid trip has come to a tragic end and she will never get to have the experiences she was meant to have in Dublin or anywhere else.
London Sunrise is slower like your sitting watching the sunrise, unlike how I usually see the London Sunrise while driving into work, this has a quite sun dappled early summer feel to it, as Keeley sings about inter-railing and other rites of passage, that in the case of Ingrid-Maria Hauser ended in tragedy when she left London for Dublin. Life is good and everything is going well she may not even be 19 years old yet, but she's on her first big adventure and life is opening out before her.
This ep closes with Echoes Everywhere a slow dreamy song to chill out and feel a bit blissed out too as you listen out for the echoes you feel and hear from the object of your desires as the music slowly rises and falls and you realize that Ingrid-Maria never got to realize her dreams, a life cut short in Northern Ireland.
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