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Artist
Carol Keogh
12+ albums
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Carol Keogh has been writing songs and recording them since Low Babies! No, not junior infants (or 'low babies' as it is often colloquially referred to in Ireland) - Low Babies was the precursor to The Plague Monkeys who, over the course of two albums and two EPs spanning a five year career, gave the world songs like Star Country, Safe and Sea Change: songs of dreams and passion with a twist of mystery. A two-year hiatus ensued between the demise of The Plague Monkeys and the formation of The Tycho Brahe with fellow former bandmate Donal O'Mahony. But this is not a gap in Carol's curriculum vitae. During this time, she began collaborating with producer Ken McHugh on his electro-pop project, Autamata. Keogh remains an important part of the Autamata line-up, having co-written and sung 15 tracks across the three albums to date. The Tycho Brahe disbanded in 2006 but left the world with two excellent albums, including the sprawling, musically ambitious and eccentrically brilliant double-album Love Life. Carol has availed of opportunities to work in diverse environments with different collaborators and this has strengthened and sharpened her songwriting skills down the years. While working with both Tychos and Autamata, in 2006 Keogh engaged on a new project with maverick electronica artist Dunk Murphy (AKA Sunken Foal). This project, which came to be known as The Natural History Museum, has developed a unique sound, a mix of the programmed and the played, the minimal and the ar
