Raw and ferocity are words that have always described Jehnny Beth’s music.
From Savages to her solo work the painful intensity she wrings out of her music marries trauma and survival with a stark, artistic clarity. Seeking answers through reinvention.
Beth sets the visceral tone here again beginning with a scream. A declaration announcing she’s back, and clearly she’s not here to offer comfort. “We learn to breathe with a broken rib,” she asserts on the opening track “Broken Rib”, a metaphor that’s as physical as it is emotional. It defines the album’s core with immediate defiance. This feels like a restart and a continuation, evoking the bruising energy of her audacious Savages sound but more focussed, reflecting…