Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy

When writing the bio for the "difficult second album" you are supposed to repeat the trope

about having a lifetime to compose your debut LP and a few months to pen the follow-up.

Yet while the vinyl release of Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy's acclaimed debut album

World On Fire was less than a year ago, much of the record that follows quickly in its wake is

the product of the same prodigious gestation period.

Written and recorded in parallel to World On Fire, Cast Me Down is the other side of the