Night on My Side [Enhanced] [Import]

Night on My Side [Enhanced] [Import]

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Night on My Side is the debut album from Gemma Hayes. With her lazy Southern drawl and a beaten and bruised collection of broken-hearted country music, Gemma sounds as if she grew up in small-town America, not Tipperary, Ireland. Indeed, with its campfire laments on life, love, and escape, Night on My Side isn't a million dusty miles from the dead-beat introspection of Texan cowgirl-slacker Shea Seger's debut, The May Street Project. The tender plod of "Day One," the fragile hope and honesty of "My God," and the drowsy regret of "Over & Over" are not so much cathartic venting as the late-night diary confessions and captured moments of a solitary sould laid bare. It's not what she says but the passion with which she says it that makes her songs so phenomenally poignant. Aided by Mercury Rev and Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann, she doesn't just tell tales, she conjures full-blooded emotions. The details of unrequited love on "Back of My Hand" are irrelevant; it’s the sinking feeling that counts. And when the Radiohead-strength chorus crashes into "Let a Good Thing Go" and when the speaker-tearing white noise and guitar overdrive erupt in "Lucky One," they deliver a sense of loss like no words ever could. --Dan Gennoe

Product Description
Debut 2002 Full Length CD from this 23 Year Old Promising Irish Singer/Songwriter. She's Already Created a Major Stir in her Homeland. She Has a Lazy Southern Drawl and a Collection of Songs that Read Like a Personal Diary. Produced by Mercury Rev and Flaming Lips Producer, Dave Fridmann, Hayes's Emotions Pour Through. She Cites her Influences as Nick Drake, Mogwai, Deus, the Frames and the Blue Nile.

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