Sean Kiely by Anthony Mulcahy
The nine songs of Sean Kiely’s Long Live The Low (Multiple Logo Records) are like “un-asked for gifts that keep on giving, and heartbreak as a portal to change,” according to the singer. It took two days with his band holed up in a Brooklyn recording studio to make the follow-up to his 2024 Postcards of the Reckoning. He feels his lyrics “summon epiphanies and moments of clarity in the middle of storms.” After opening for Richard Thompson at a sold-out White Eagle Hall show in his Jersey City hometown, performing live on the radio over WFUV, and touring from Chicago to Tennessee, Kiely has overgrown his rookie status to be a big bat on the national alt-folk team. With fiddle, banjo, his own acoustic guitar, bass and drums behind him, Kiely goes from country and folk to rock, pop and a waltz.