Those keeping a close ear on the indie/shoegaze scene over the past year will almost certainly have encountered KEELEY. The eponymously named band fronted by Keeley Moss have played a truckload of live dates, and shared stages with Echobelly and Terrorvision. On a great collection of recorded works, Moss and her band have created a musical legacy surrounding the murder of tourist Inga Maria Hauser, giving their work a more emotive and often cerebral quality than your average shoegaze act.
The first weeks of 2026 are set to give fans a treat when the band delivers a new album, ‘Girl On The Edge of The World’, in February, alongside a run of live dates.
More info can be found in the full press release which follows. You can also read a review of KEELEY’s 2024 album ‘Beautiful Mysterious’ here.
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Anglo-Irish dreamrock trio KEELEY, fronted by charismatic Dubliner Keeley Moss, are pleased to announce the release of their third full-length album ‘Girl On The Edge Of The World’. The album lands on February 20 via the Definitive Gaze label, and is the first to feature Keeley’s touring bandmates – bassist Lukey Foxtrot and drummer Andrew Paresi, who played on Morrissey’s first three solo albums. It’s also the first album to feature guest vocalists – Miki Berenyi (Lush, Piroshka, MB3) on “Big Brown Eyes” and Sice of The Boo Radleys on “Trains and Daydreams”. The album was produced by longtime KEELEY studio collaborator Alan Maguire at his Dublin studio, and features twelve new songs including the current single “Who Wants To See The World”.
‘Girl on the Edge of the World’ takes the shape of “a film for the ear” from a unique perspective, that of teenage German backpacker Inga Maria Hauser, whose murder in Northern Ireland in April 1988 on her first solo adventure away from her parents remains unsolved. Her case is a cause Moss has kept alive over the past decade in her long-running blog The Keeley Chronicles, on BBC TV’s Spotlight programme and in an episode of the BBC/Netflix documentary Murder in the Badlands. Regarded as an authority on the case, Inga’s short life and tragic demise has become the subject of KEELEY’s entire discography to date.
The album celebrates Inga’s mission to see the world and takes the listener on a vivid journey through the mists of time, creating sound pictures with words, music and in places, excerpts from Inga’s own diary and postcards, to create a deeply poignant and yet utterly vibrant musical memoir. A bubbling cauldron of Indie-Rock, Shoegaze, Dreampop, Post-Punk, Ambient Electronica and pastoral Psychedelia, ‘Girl on the Edge of the World’ is the most immersive and most alluring realisation yet of Moss’s singular songwriting vision. “This record is the first time we’ve managed to capture what I call “the sonic swirl” in our sound, the sound I’ve had in my head all along”, she says.
A new documentary about Keeley Moss and her involvement in the Inga Maria Hauser case is currently in production from the makers of the acclaimed film From Scotland With Love (2014).
The album’s limited edition sky-blue vinyl edition comes with a bonus 6-track 12” EP called ‘Lost Magic’ which further explores aspects of Inga Maria’s short life.
Album pre-order options can be found at this link: https://ffm.to/keeleygirl
“Who Wants To See The World” video: https://youtu.be/-Xpcuzvt2iM
Tracklisting
01. Hungry For The Prize
02. Crossing Lands
03. Trains and Daydreams (feat. Sice)
04. London Fields
05. London Underground
06. Big Brown Eyes (feat. Miki Berenyi)
07. Who Wants To See The World
08. Girl On The Edge Of The World
09. To Bring You Back
10. Fell In Love With A Ghost
11. The Movie Of our Yesterdays
12. Daydreams and Trains
On the live front, KEELEY have just wrapped up the year opening for Babyshambles and indie-pop legends The Primitives and play the following dates across the UK in support of the new album:
Fri Jan 9 NEWPORT Le Pub
Sat Jan 10 WINCHESTER University (supporting The Smyths)
Wed Feb 18 LONDON LVLS, Hackney Wick
Thurs Feb 19 COVENTRY Tin Music & Arts (co-headline with Atalhos)
Fri Feb 20 BRISTOL Exchange Basement
Sat Feb 21 BOURNEMOUTH The Bear Cave
Wed Feb 25 BRIGHTON The Rossi Bar
Thu Feb 26 HULL New Adelphi
Fri Feb 27 HUDDERSFIELD Parish Dive Bar
Sat Feb 28 GLASGOW Hug & Pint
Sun Mar 1 NEWCASTLE Cluny 2
Sat Mar 21 NORWICH Waterfront (supporting The Smyths)
KEELEY Online:
Official Site / Bandcamp / Facebook / Twitter / Instagram / YouTube / TikTok
Press release details courtesy of Definitive Gaze Management.
Live photo courtesy of Chris Hogge.