This dreamy, creamy and altogether gleamy, as well as persuasively adroit concept album in two parts (Part One: The Magic Maze and Part Two: The Tragic Phase) once again finds the Dublin songstress, Keeley Moss on something of a musical mission. A mission where she primarily addresses the as yet, still unresolved demise of the German backpacking tourist, Inga Maria Hauser in Northern Ireland in 1988.
Talk about rebel with very much a cause.
Girl On The Edge Of The World is indeed the third and latest idiosyncratic instalment of a devout, similar persuasion; wherein Keeley not only poses the quintessential questions by way of each of its twelve tracks, but does so within the acute parameters of perennial design.
Prime reason being, it is immediately ironic – as well as apparent – that by listening to the very opening tracks of both parts of the album, ‘Hungry For The Prize’ and ‘Who Wants To See The World,’ that long-time partner in production, Alan Maguire, has once again been asked to step unto the breach. A situation where the squeezing of sparks is all the more brought to the collaborative fore, care of her touring bandmates, bassist, Lukey Foxtrot and drummer, Andrew Paresi (both of whom played on none other than Morrissey’s first three solo albums – which, all things ultimately considered, really ought not be held against them).
To be sure, Paresi’s more than inventive drumming foundation on such songs as ‘Fell In Love With A Ghost’ (now there’s a title) and ‘The Movie Of Our Yesterdays’ (and hey, there’s another), really does escalate both songs beyond the humdrum, philanthropic backdrop of merely going through ye motions.
An overtly distinctive quality, which, when aligned with Keeley’s wonderfully melodic, not to mention ethereal and very well considered, refined guitarchitecture, absolutely accounts for a mighty retinue of a classy album.
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