Gemma Hayes

I'd like to suggest listening (?deeply/?seriously/*strongly) to Gemma Hayes. She has a penetrating voice and sense of placement about herself that must be timed very closely with the human condition - her piece "Work to a Calm" is wrenching. It sets out the soul on edge like the grinding of gears does my teeth. The sound itself, however, is quite lovely.

Her album Night on My Side begins with the words "Oh good God, what has he done / traded a heart for a bullet and mind for a gun" and never fails to match the promise of tragedy and ache.

Gemma Hayes.