Kathryn Joseph Releases New Single ‘the burning of us all’

Kathryn Joseph shares the hauntingly beautiful track ‘the burning of us all’ – the second single off her forthcoming studio album for you who are the wronged, due for release 22 April via Best & Fairest / Rock Action. 

Anger sears on ‘the burning of us all’, as Kathryn narrates the violation and abuse she has observed in a quiet yet impassioned reckoning: “The way they gaslit, swallowed it whole…The way they tried to make them hate the ones they loved”.

The new single is accompanied by a video directed by Harry Clark, featuring Jessie Roberts-Smith from the Scottish Dance Theatre Group.

for you who are the wronged is the much anticipated follow-up to 2018’s from when i wake the want is, and her 2014 debut bones you have thrown me and blood i’ve spilled, which won 2015’s Scottish Album of the Year award. If from when i wake… was written for love to return, this is where she fights tooth and claw to protect it. And though her sparrow-boned musical structures are as slight and sparse framed as their singer – they burn with a fearsome new certainty.

for you who are the wronged  is set for release April 22 via Best & Fairest / Rock Action

Recorded at The Lengths Studio in Fort William, with producer Lomond Campbell, the converted old school-house offered a week-long solace to let her focus solely on the music. It’s her first co-production credit, too – and given the heart-close nature of the subject, only fitting that she’d shape its execution. The sound is spacious, honouring the rawness of her original demos, written in early 2020. The subject matter is violation – of power, of love, of access – a pain that may not belong to her alone, but she strives to make sense of what’s being enacted on others. In crafting these songs, Joseph offers a window into these toxic patterns that she hopes could save someone.

“Partly, it feels like the only thing I can do in terms of saying it out loud,” Kathryn shares. “It’s like code. No-one will hear their name, or recognise themselves, but in years to come, they might. For me, I think maybe there’s someone who might not even realise that they’re being abused until they listen to these songs. The ones who are already – I know how strong they are. They’re in my life, and they’re surviving it.”

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