This EP, I’m Gonna Be a Diamond Someday, brings together two poetry-led sound works themed around inheritance. Both tracks explore the elements carried through families, bodies and places; and what remains after the people and landscapes that shaped us are gone. Coal Suite excavates the lasting imprint of Scotland’s mining heritage through the lens of personal family history, using poetry, lullabies and industrial sound to confront class grievance and the ritual presence of the dead. Germline turns inward to the maternal line, exploring the strange doubleness of being both a daughter and a mother, and the idea that three generations can, for a time, exist within one body. This EP works savage sorcery on the cinders that exist inside each of us, from our collective pasts into something intimate, physical and very much still alive. 

NOTES:

For Bella.

SIDE 1: COAL SUITE

● Meditation on the Mother of Perpetual Succour, or Just Babybones for Short
● Cleanliness Is Next to Something Else I’m Grasping For
● 134 High Coats
● Incantation for a Miner

SIDE 2: GERMLINE

● Sunshine 1996
● March 1985
● Oh Mother, My Child 1924–2022

Written, arranged, performed and recorded by Cat Boyd Foley.

Produced by Paul Conneally at New Reality Records.

With great thanks to Paul Conneally, James Foley, Fi Alexander, Andy Brown (Venalism Records), Sofia Archontis (Electronic Experimentations), Meredith MacLeod Davidson, Henry Bell, Colin J. Herd and nick-e melville.

Sections featuring the Joe Heaney recording (00:00–01:30 and 05:10–05:56) were originally performed by FK Alexander and Cat Boyd Foley as part of the Radiophrenia 2025 work When Everything I Love Falls From the Sky, the World Will Be Covered in Darkness.