Description
Elkyn - Holy Spirit Social Club
(Curation Records)
*LP comes with free Elkyn tote bag*
Tracklisting
Change
Found The Back of The TV Remote
Fell
I Was Never in It
Talon
Everything Looks Darker Now
Change (reprise)
If Youre Still Leaving
Last Night
I Dont Know the Way from Here
This Is the End
It Figures
elkyn's debut album ‘holy spirit social club’ is out now on Curation Records. ‘holy spirit
social club’ sees elkyn aka Joey Donnelly put his uncensored inner dialogue on
paper, bravely airing the thoughts most wouldn’t dare expose. Whether that’s hurtful
messages to one’s self, vague and elusive memories or lingering lessons from
childhood, it’s all here on ‘holy spirit social club’, unfiltered and searingly honest.
This sincerity is matched in the music. While the arrangements on ‘holy spirit social
club’ are far more expansive than those heard on 2020 EP ‘beech’, tender finger
picks and elkyn’s distinctive half-whisper still remain at its heart. Though the pain is
palpable, its impact is meditative, enveloping the listener in a safe haven where you
feel free to acknowledge the darker parts of yourself.
Rainy regret-tinged evenings, dominate ‘holy spirit social club’. ‘last night’ concerns
the final night he spent with a friend, considering the ensuing loneliness that awaits.
While ‘everything looks darker now’ recounts a rainy night in Manchester when he
shied away from an old friend.
This unflinching honesty has seen elkyn become a streaming success in recent
months, with the one-off singles that followed ‘beech’ making it on to a number of
Spotify editorial playlists. After a lockdown spent demoing, he entered Nave Studios
with Producer Mark Gustafson, creating more complete songs than ever before. The
process was so cathartic for Donnelly that he went on to name the album after the
social club that once existed in the basement below the aforementioned studio.
Whilst elkyn isn’t exactly kind to himself on ‘holy spirit social club’, it does see him lift
a monumental weight from his shoulders. In elkyn’s words, it’s “an interim into writing
nicer songs and being nicer to myself”. In creating ‘holy spirit social club’, he has
faced demons that he’s shied away from for too long, finding a way back to himself
that previously felt impossible. It’s only by sitting with your darkest moments that you
can begin to glimpse the light - ‘holy spirit social club’ is proof of that and a whole lot
more.
Something special. An intimate and relatable album. Record Collector
Elliott Smith, Bon Iver introspection. Recommended for dreamers. Shindig!
Wistful, sometimes dreamy, sparkly folk. Recommended. Americana UK
A vulnerable and radiantly raw experience. Atwood Magazine
Shadows of Elliott Smith, solo Neil Halstead, and Rehearsals-era Damian Jurado loom large. Raven Sings The Blues
Blissful indie-folk. Still Listening
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