Katey Morley – Hearts & Heads & Thoughts & 
Deeds
EP
Release Date: Out Now
It’s great to have Toronto’s
Katey Morley back on the scene and her new five track EP, ‘Hearts & Heads
& Thoughts & Deeds’, is a welcome tonic indeed. The new collection
starts with ‘Afterglow’ and an ominously thudding beat augmented by the low
piano tones which feels like Alanis doing Abba with Feist giving production
tips from the booth. ‘The Guy Who Breaks Things’ has a more dramatic vibe with
those low slung guitar notes and Morley’s emotion filled voice creating images
of a stand off outside a church in the Mid-West.
There is a sombre tenderness
behind the melody and lyrics of ‘Little Man’ which, when paired with the
country guitars, makes for an incredibly heart wrenching tune full of pathos. ‘Carolina
Home’, by contrast, has a dark and windswept sense to the delivery of lines
like “I lost my daddy in the war, I lost my home to America” as Morley sings of
someone at the end of their tether and the start of a long road. The EP
finishes up on ‘Fits & Starts’, a piano and vocal track that has hints of
Alanis again, the Indigo Girls and Tori Amos in terms of the simplicity of the
arrangement but the incredible power of the song itself. The real winner on
this EP is song-writing and Katey Morley is an absolute master of the art so do
yourself a favour and get some of this in your life.
More information: https://www.facebook.com/kateymorleymusic