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Gemma Hayes
Roads Don't Love You [Source]
Release Date: 2005 11 15
Label: Source UK
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After a long bout of writer's block, Irish singer/songwriter Gemma Hayes finally returns with a second album that largely ignores the sound that made her debut so striking. Released in 2003, Night on My Side was a dream pop marvel that recalled Lisa Germano's powerful blend of folk-rock simplicity and art rock sonic experimentation, but perhaps producer Dave Fridmann's fingerprints were too much evident on the My Bloody Valentine-meets-Grandaddy feel of the album. The Roads Don't Love You is co-produced by Hayes and Joey Waronker (Beck, R.E.M., etc.) and has a much more mainstream, almost slick pop sound, helped along by session pros like Jellyfish's Roger Manning (who also co-wrote first single "Undercover"), guitarists Smokey Hormel (Tom Waits) and Josh Klinghoffer (PJ Harvey), and -- ironically enough -- Lisa Germano herself on violin. Hayes' songs are uniformly strong, particularly the terrific pop/rocker "Happy Sad," but the commercially minded production has little of the spooky, atmospheric charm of her debut. Stewart Mason, All Music Guide

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1Two StepHayes4:04
2Another for the DarknessHayes3:49
3Happy SadHayes4:20
4Easy on the EyeHayes3:56
5Keep Me HereHayes4:13
6UndercoverTrott, Manning, Hayes4:10
7Nothing CanHayes4:53
8HelenHayes3:30
9Something in My WayHayes4:06
10HorsesHayes4:09
11TomorrowHayes5:26

Other Releases:
Roads Don't Love You [EMI]
Release Date: 2005
Label: EMI Music Distribution








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