Katherine Priddy - The Pendulum Swing *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 5th December 2025
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

British singer-songwriter Katherine Priddy is to release her much-anticipated sophomore album The Pendulum Swing via Cooking Vinyl. This follows her highly acclaimed 2021 debut The Eternal Rocks Beneath, which announced Priddy as a singular new talent on the contemporary roots music scene. Speaking about the single, "First House On The Left", and the wider themes on the album Priddy commented: “Despite its soft and dreamy sound, this song provides the cornerstone around which the album and its themes orbit." The album title The Pendulum Swing is taken from a line in this song and describes the urge to leave and the even stronger urge to return. It also sums up this second album as a whole nicely - "despite moving forward and feeling the need to do something different with this second release, I still can't help but return to those fundamental, unchanging things at the root of it all: home, family, love." Once again recorded in Birmingham by producer Simon J Weaver, guest musicians comprise John Smith (lead guitar), Harry Fausing Smith (strings), Marcus Hamblett (brass/double bass), George Boomsma (guitar, backing vocals, co-writer on track “Ready To Go”), Polly Virr (cello) and even a brief appearance from Priddy’s family members right at the end of the album, in keeping with its themes. With The Pendulum Swing, Priddy has managed to keep moving forward whilst acknowledging and honouring all that has gone before.

Track Listing:

Returning

Selah

First House On The Left

These Words Of Mine

Does She Hold You Like I Did

Northern Sunrise

A Boat On The River

Father Of Two

Anyway, Always

Walnut Shell

Ready To Go

Leaving

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