Former Celebration bassist and vocalist Katrina Ford has announced her debut album, H.E.A.R.T., which stands for Heart Ember Abuse Resin Trend. It’s set for release on November 1 and includes the previously released single ‘Dundalk Dungeon’, as well as the just-unveiled ‘Cry Wolf’. Check it out and find the album cover and tracklist below.
“‘Cry Wolf’ gives voice to things we feel we must keep quiet about to not be considered alarmist or too sensitive,” Ford explained in a statement. “The base emotion of fear and the feeling of pain is primal. The synth trills exponentially raise the feeling of threat over the arc of the song and fortitude of standing amidst real or imagined danger. For me it was the internalized battle of chronic pain, with endometriosis and how it makes me feel like an animal. After years of drugs and treatments, even having body parts removed, there was still no cure.”
H.E.A.R.T. follows Ford’s 2022 debut solo EP. “Edges, the line, the start and the finish, there was no clearly defined beginning or ending to the making of this album,” Ford reflected. “My work as an artist is a run on sentence. I light many fires and some I carry out the door, so to speak. Some of these songs were written years ago and some were finished this year. They all have the mark of pandemic.”
“When locked in and locked down along with the whole world, I became fascinated with portals, windows and thresholds,” she added. “Always wistfully looking out, seeing beauty in the wind rustling the trees and the clouds clocking despite the unfolding global tragedies. In the physical world there was a heightened awareness of entry and exits. Contrastingly my inner world became more smeared. The thin veils of meditation, astral travel and dreams mixed with waking life. I’d be working on a song one night and later that week I’d finish writing a melody in an out of body journey or in my sleep.”
H.E.A.R.T. Cover Artwork:
H.E.A.R.T. Tracklist:
1. Dundalk Dungeon
2. Cry Wolf
3. Ready Or Not
4. Tinder Nest
5. No Canyon
6. World On A Wire
7. Killing It
8. Horses
9. Eagle And Dove
10. Adonai