Release: Colin Hay - Now and the Evermore
âHayâs reputation as a gifted singer and songwriter is well established.â âAmerican Songwriter âHay is the consumate songwriter, whoâs only gotten better and better with age.â
âDaytrotter âHay has been attracting new fans with gentle, ruminative acoustic songs.â
âThe New York Times Possessing one of the most distinctive and recognizable voices on the planet, former Men at Work frontman Colin Hay faces down struggle, loss and the existential questions about mortality on NOW AND THE EVERMORE, his first collection of new material since the 2016 release of FIERCE MERCY.
Written and recorded in Hayâs adopted hometown of Los Angeles and at Compass Sound Studio in Nashville, the collection is a defiantly joyful celebration of life and love, one that insists on finding silver linings and reasons to smile through the challenges of recent times. Thatâs not to say the record deludes itself about the realities of our modern world, but rather that it consistently chooses to respond to pain with beauty and doubt with wonder. The music on the new album brims with fanciful melodies and lush orchestration. Hayâs performances are likewise animated and full of life, drawing on vintage pop charm, pub rock muscle, and folk sincerity to forge a sound thatâs at once playful and profound, clever and compassionate, whimsical and earnest.
Says Hay:
"NOW AND THE EVERMORE is my newest album of songs. What I hope to convey with this record, is how grateful I feel, on a daily basis, to be still walking around on top of this planet. A planet which fills me with such awe and wonderment, mainly that the whole thing works so well, the whole push pull thing and expanding at the same time. Amazing.
The first thing youâll hear on NOW AND THE EVERMORE, is a drum fill played by Ringo Starr. This is terribly exciting, because for me growing up, there was The Beatles, and then there was everybody else. Some days I think weâre still trying to make something thatâs as close as possible to âRubber Soulâ, when their creative wellspring was starting to bubble over.
With this new record, I have tried to make it sound as beautiful as I could. Sometimes beauty hurts, but itâs a good pain."
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