The Recent Past [LP]

Hayden - The Recent Past [LP]

For 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.

Despite its title, Hayden's new album "The Recent Past" isn't nostalgic so much as observant. It reflects on the strange feeling of longing for a time that wasn't all that long ago, but it's also about trying to stay rooted in the present while everything around us speeds up.

After years of mixing his own records, Hayden gave the final mixes to Grammy-winning engineer Tom Schick, whose work with Jeff Tweedy, Wilco, Mavis Staples and Willie Nelson had long been an inspiration. Adding subtle colours on the album are drummer Adam Hindle, pedal steel player Matt Kelly, fiddler Miranda Mulholland and upright bassist Ben Whiteley.

Track Listing:
A1. This Beautiful Day A2. Bombs Away A3. Stardust Or Avalon A4. Outta Nashville A5. Field Of Lovers A6. Come For Us B1. Small Town Airport Restaurant B2. Time Has Been More Kind B3. On My Mark B4. Makes No Sense B5. You're The Only Reason