Darren Hayman - 12 Astronauts - VINYL LP

An autobiographical album about break ups, the record is tender, honest and frequently funny. Darren set an 8 track, acoustic rule for the record. Everything sounds warm, close and intimate. Darren's own love-worn, London voice is joined on every song by the sweet antipodean tones of Hannah Winter and Laura K, recording artists and songwriters themselves with Common or Garden and Fortitude Valley. When Darren Hayman made his debut in 1997 with the acclaimed indie band Hefner his lyrical remit was the broken hearted. His early songs told the story of the lonesome and lost, and broken dreams of love on the back streets of London. After Hefner, Hayman's palette grew to include a unique take on place and memory. In the early 2000s he wrote a trilogy of albums around the history of Essex. In 2012 he made an instrumental album describing the tranquillity of Lidos. In 2016 DarrenA1) Curl Up A2) I Was Thinking About You A3) Because We Were Impossible A4) I Am The Noise A5) I Want To Get Drunk A6) I Tried and I Tried and I Failed B1) I Love You, I Miss You, Come Back B2) Dinosaur Plate B3) The Joint Account B4) Kissing A Cloud B5) A Girl That I'm Seeing B6) Wrap Yourself Around Me

Following a stream of thematic and conceptual albums over the last 15 years Darren Hayman has recently returned to a more introspective, personal kind of music. Darren is the only musician on the album and the music conforms to a strict set of self-imposed rules; only one voice, only 12 tracks, only one polyphonic instrument. ¨Through this control and limited palette I found new melodies and structures. I wanted these old machines to guide me towards my most human record.¨ 'A Real Human Being' is inspired by Darren's experience of life drawing. InchModern life encourages us to reduce people to images, jokes, memes. In life drawing, you're treating the person as a form, watching where the light and shadows fall, and then you're reminded that they are real, alive.Inch In 'No Lime for the Gin', a group of old friends is reunited in middle age, holding a half-hearted party where the talk is dominated by their hopes and broken dreams. 'Turn My Grey Tick Blue' is a wry look at the anxieties of dating in the digital age. 'You Were Always Here' ends the album on an optimistic note. Finding love late in life, the narrator ruminates on how the bad things happened for a reason, and that perhaps we always end up where we're supposed to be.You Will Not Die is a much slower and more brooding voyage. It is a seductive, soulful collection of songs and instrumentals that sits among Darren's most emotive and intelligent workA1) How It Could Be A2) You Were My Map A3) Don't Haunt Me A4) A Real Human Being A5) Let's Drift A6) Love Is Through B1) Otium B2) A Room Within A Room B3) No Lime For The Gin B4) The Safest Way B5) Turn My Grey Tick Blue B6) Feel Like This Every Night C1) Girls Who Look Like You C2) Here's The Stillness C3) Loser Run C4) Say You Want To Be Alone C5) We Are Repaired C6) Easter Gold D1) Actually I Still Really, Really Miss You D2) Holiday Eyes D3) Where Were You D4)

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