Confessional and Understated: Hayley Savage
The new, eponymous album by Hayley Savage is a collection of songs written between 2011 and 2021. Due for release on 11 April, it’s a minimalist and organic mixture of folk, Americana and indie. Recorded between the studio and Hayley’s home in Hastings, the album is produced by Hayley herself, along with the well-known mixing and mastering engineer, John Nicholls.
Together they have elicited a classic sound that honours Hayley’s love of warm group harmonies. “Imagine rays of light” she suggests, “shining through a dusty attic room, and you’ll begin to get a feel for the atmosphere.” She draws on various musical influences: J. Tillman, Elliott Smith, Sandy Denny, Simon and Garfunkel, among others. Single releases Lamplight and Everything brood over dark themes, yet are musically reaffirming, and her songs are time capsules which contain her deepest joy and deepest sorrow: they express the way that life itself consists of both the light and the dark.
Hayley is a folk singer and guitarist with distinctively pure vocals, known for her highly personal songwriting. At the age of 29, she moved to The Netherlands, where she began writing for the album and performing in Den Bosch, with the support of her local record store. Returning to the UK, she formed an Americana duo, Grand Palace, in Brighton. In 2016 she returned to her hometown, Hastings, where she made her first home recordings and performed as a support band at The De La Warr Pavilion.
There are fifteen years between her first album, The Daisy Room, and this album. More than a break of silence, it is a musical and lyrical burst of expression. Hayley is back, along with her full creative spirit. Americana UK describes the album as “intimate and authentic…an album that lingers – not just in melody, but in feeling – long after the final note fades.”
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