Darren Hayman returns with new album Home Time on 22 May via Fika Recordings. Home Time is described as an autobiographical album about breakups, 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.
Watch his latest video for ‘I Was Thinking About You” (single out this Friday) below:
Darren Hayman: My new album ‘Hometime’ was titled before all of this hullabaloo started. My next album is provisionally title ‘The New Rules’ which also might turn out to be accidentally prophetic.
The album and this song, ‘I Was Thinking About You’ are actually about divorce and breakup but they are also about retreat and the inner space we occupy when troubled.
I use that space a lot. I have a friend Paul who calls it ‘spending time in the back office.’
Also coincidentally to the lockdown and ideas of ‘home’, all three videos for this album were made inside my flat. The first two were made before we went into isolation but the video for ‘I Was Thinking About You’ was made in the first few weeks of the Covid 19 crisis in Britain.
I’ve always worked well with constraints and limitations and luckily that gives me a super power in these strange times. The six members of my band recorded their footage in their homes and sent them to me. I wanted to make it look a bit better then the divided ‘zoom’ style videos we’re getting used to now.
The band look like they’re having a lot more fun then they do when they are actually with me.
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