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CMU Approved
Approved: Tess Roby
By Andy Malt | Published on Tuesday 17 April 2018
Following her debut single, ‘Ballad 5’, last year, Tess Roby has announced that she will release her debut album, ‘Beacon’, on 4 May. Along with this news comes dazzling new single ‘Catalyst’.
The album is named after a beacon in Lancashire, a watch tower built in 1798 by Sir William Ashurst to warn of a French invasion in the lead up to the Napoleonic War. Situated near where Roby’s late father grew up, it became an inspiration for the record, written and recorded after his death using synths and drum machines that were found in his recording studio.
“Throughout my life I have felt the pull to return to [the beacon]”, she says. “I’m beckoned by father’s roots and by the sullen landscape of fields leading to the coast. All the while [recording the album] the beacon remained effervescent in my mind. Visions of it ablaze on the hilltop, standing motionless while I searched for understanding”.
Watch the video for ‘Catalyst’ here:
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