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Hayden
Hayden is a Toronto musician who's been releasing records for ten years. His international debut 'Everything I Long For' (Geffen) was released in 1996 after initial attention in Canada following two cassettes and several 7-inch singles. The album's home recorded songs appealed to critics and fans alike, making many year- end top ten lists. Following tours of the U.S, Europe and Japan, Hayden released 'The Closer I Get' (Geffen) in 1998 a more band oriented affair and a sonic and lyrical progression. Following over a year of touring and promotion, Hayden closed the book on chapter one of his music career. It wasn't until 2001 that he returned with the wonderful 'Skyscraper National Park' . Recorded at his home studio, it was filled with a warmth and beauty that was felt by music lovers everywhere and was a massive return to form. His new album Elk-Lake Serenade is out now and is once again generating a huge amount of praise.

Album Of The Week - 4 stars - The Independent
Album Of The Week - 4 stars - The Sunday Times
4 stars - The Independent On Sunday
4 Stars - The Guardian
4 Stars - Uncut
4 stars - Q
“The album's unequivocal genius slaps you upside the head. Everything about this record - musicianship, songcraft, lyrics ¯ is superior.” - MOJO - GOLD SEAL OF APPROVAL
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"Elk-Lake Serenade is an album unlikely to be bettered in it's field in 2004. There's not a weak track in sight, and when it peaks, it is breathtaking" - COMES WITH A SMILE

CD of the Week: Elk-Lake Serenade confirms Hayden as one of the best songwriters flying the Americana flag. Melancholy in places, the album also finds room for the warm, inviting piano and strings of Wide Eyes, the jerky rhythms and what-the-hell trumpets of Hollywood Ending and the almost Kinksian shuffle of My Wife. Virtually every lyric contains the essence of a great movie (or at least a killer movie scene ). - SUNDAY TIMES

Album of the Week: In places, it recalls Tindersticks, or the Penguin Café Orchestra, but mostly it brings to mind Neil Young, whose influence seeps through "Home by Saturday" and "Roll Down That Wave". But it's a few albums since Neil wrote songs as pungent and distinctive as these. - THE INDEPENDENT

This Canadian songwriter's lovely, cracked, off-key vocals, winsome melodies and brilliant lyrics keep you going through the odd tune that sounds like half a song written by a man coasting. When he's good, he's great. A touchstone is early Waits but he has his own thing going on; a thoughtful, subdued take on the everyday - funnelled through apologetically beguiling harmonies. - TIME OUT

Hayden Desser, the mysterious Canadian, has been ploughing his own idiosyncratic furrow for almost a decade. It isn't easy to describe what he does, but …chances are it'll grow on ya. - THE GUARDIAN

Hollywood Ending is a raucous tale of being caught up in a blockbuster outside his front door, though it's Home By Saturday that steals the show: a ragged tumble of guitars, waft of steel and those exquisitely crumbled vocals. UNCUT

Q Recommends: Like a technology-phobic Beck, Desser tells his off-kilter tales of ennui and dysfunctional relationships with a wry eye, but when he seeks the emotional jugular, he usually finds it. Q Magazine
Links
Hayden's Official Website
Badman Recordings

 
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