Hayden - The Recent Past ALT JAZZ while the bands were finding

while the bands were finding a sweet spot where anti-corporate understatement and a dismissive attitude to an increasingly misogynist UK Press was no barrier to success

the parallel lives… Railcard had to happen

Sort of an endless buffet these days—a bottomless basket of rock bottom

It is apt that the anniversary of that session is marked with James’ first release in a trio format

childhood memories do form the background for a couple of tracks: coal trains steaming along the foot of our garden

Hayden - The Recent Past ALT JAZZ while the bands were findingFor more than thirty years, Hayden has built a body of work from moments in life that can easily pass unnoticed. His talent is to build grandeur around small events, not just within songs but as an accumulation across his whole career. Taken together, his ten studio albums amount to an ongoing conversation about family, memory, love, loss, absurdity, and the strange beauty hidden inside ordinary days. The realization that todays routine may someday