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elkyn has announced his debut album holy spirit social club and shared its lead single everything looks darker now.

Releasedvia Curation Records on 18th March 2022, holy spirit social club sees elkyn aka Joey Donnelly put his uncensored inner dialogue on paper, bravely airing the thoughts most wouldnt dare expose. Whether thats hurtful messages to ones self, vague and elusive memories or lingering lessons from childhood, its all here on holy spirit social club, unfiltered and searingly honest.

This sincerity is matched in the music. While the arrangements on holy spirit social club are far more expansive than those heard on 2020 EP beech, tender finger picks and elkyns distinctive half-whisper still remain at its heart. Though the pain is palpable, its impact – as youll hear on new single everything looks darker now – is meditative, enveloping the listener in a safe haven where you feel free to acknowledge the darker parts of yourself.

Speaking about the single, Donnelly said: This is about a rainy gig I played in Manchester. I invited someone and didnt expect them to show up and when they did I shied away from them for most of it. We had a big catch up over a cigarette outside but when I left I realised how much I missed them.

Rainy regret-tinged evenings, like this one, dominate holy spirit social club. last night concerns the final night he spent with a friend, considering the ensuing loneliness that awaits. While change finds him on the streets of Yorkshire, revisiting his family home and wondering whether he had fulfilled his fathers desire for him to become a man – a sore point that resurfaces again and again on holy spirit social club.

This unflinching honesty has seen elkyn become a streaming success in recent months, with the one-off singles that followed beech making it on to a number of Spotify editorial playlists. After a lockdown spent demoing, he entered Nave Studios with Producer Mark Gustafson, creating more complete songs than ever before. The process was so cathartic for Donnelly that he went on to name the album after the social club that once existed in the basement below the aforementioned studio.

Whilst elkyn isnt exactly kind to himself on holy spirit social club, it does see him lift a monumental weight from his shoulders. In elkyns words, its an interim into writing nicer songs and being nicer to myself. In creating holy spirit social club, he has faced demons that hes shied away from for too long, finding a way back to himself that previously felt impossible. Its only by sitting with your darkest moments that you can begin to glimpse the light – holy spirit social club is proof of that and a whole lot more.