Last week saw the release of South London troubadour Loz Keystone’s debut LP (and deeply moving exploration of loss and longing), To Feel Love. Speaking on the gothic, grief-stricken record, Keystone said “I started writing To Feel Love in the final weeks of my Dads life in Summer 2014 following a 2 year battle with lung cancer. The recording process didn’t start until just over a year later and the interim period had been a semi-conscious mess of intoxicated late nights and meaningless one-night-stands. Recorded in my bedroom in South London, To Feel Love became a document of losing someone, the effects of that loss and the places and ways in which we look for comfort.” Though the whole record makes for a compelling (and often chilling) listen, we’ve developed a particular affinity for album highlight ‘Nothing Wrong’, which builds on the stark austerity of previous singles ‘How Is It’ and ‘Livid’ before shifting into an inebriated groove that somehow captures the disorientation of Keystone’s subject matter all the more vividly. Be sure to check out Keystone’s show at Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club this Wednesday. -KJ