As the Savage Garden topic has had a fair bit of interest I thought I'd post about this!

 

Darren Hayes is currently in the process of finishing off his third solo album, which will be released on his own 'Powdered Sugar' label this August.

 

He has confirmed that the album is two discs comprising of 25 songs and will feature 'I just want you to love me' as heard on his 2006 'Big night in' tour.

 

For more information on the album, check his blogs on his myspace

Love Darren's music and really looking forward to this album :D

Loved Spin but was not impressed with 'The Tension and the Spark ' so I will be watching with interest to see what he comes up with :D

For more information on the album, check his blogs on his myspace

 

I'm just loving `I Like The Way' and the accoustic version of `Unlovable'. Can't stop listening to both of them.

 

What a voice he's got

Edited January 23, 200718 yr by val4jadan

Loved Spin but was not impressed with 'The Tension and the Spark ' so I will be watching with interest to see what he comes up with :D

See, I thought 'Spin' was a bit of a bland album. I know Darren really doesn't rate it. The only ones I love from it are the first 3 singles, 'Creepin up on you' and 'Good enough'

 

Whereas I thought TTATS was really original and inventive. The quality of the music and lyrics were amazing in my opinion!

That's brilliant news, I can't wait for this :). I'm a big fan of both his solo albums and he is absolutely amazing live.

 

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Awesome!! He said on his MySpace that the album is actually completed? Really can't wait, feels like forever since TTATS was released.

It's completed in terms of writing and recording. He's just mixing it now!

Spin was a fantasic album, but the follow up was rubbish. I hope his new album is similar to the first.

I've loved both of his solo albums.

i liked the first but was disappointed by the 2nd album

Spin was a fantasic album, but the follow up was rubbish. I hope his new album is similar to the first.

It won't be. If anything he's going even more experimental!

SPIN I ALSO ENJOYED BUT THE 2ND DIDNT CLICK WITH ME AND IT DIDNT SELL WELL EITHER

I love both albums! Spin was kind of the innocent record whereas TTATS is more grown up.

 

Fav tracks from Spin: Strange Relationship, Good Enough, Crush (1980 Me)

 

Fav tracks from TTATS: I Like The Way, Darkness, Hero, Love and Attraction

I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN TH E NEW material

 

He's hinted that the new album is quite trancey, said it in one of his blogs in case someone thinks I'm going mad lol :-p Know it seems like an unlikely style he'd experiment with but the guy he's working with has produced a lot of techno based stuff.

Edited January 26, 200718 yr by rossyboy88

His 2nd solo album is the best thing he's done, imo.

 

I'm not keen on this fascination he has with this electronic $h!te though.

Must admist I really underrated him. Bought his 2nd album for 5€ and it's great !!! I spent 2 weeks listening to it no stop ! :o :o :o

 

LifeLight

Ooooh! :o

 

Darren Hayes could never be accused of doing anything by convention. In a music industry terrified by ever decreasing sales, where budgets are being slashed and the dumbing down of artistry is commonplace - Hayes has pulled out all the stops and recorded an epic and theatrical double album.

 

He has defiantly said no to the seductive invitation of the majors and is instead gearing up to release his latest album on his very own independent label ‘Powdered Sugar’. Darren Hayes is doing things his own way. And he wants everyone to know about it.

 

His upcoming album ‘This Delicate Thing We’ve Made’ is an ambitious and cinematic opus. Featuring 25 bold and wildly extravagant pop songs that are already being compared in scope to the work of heroes Kate Bush and David Bowie. And perhaps most fascinatingly, was recorded with a strict commitment to a particular piece of technology as muse and inspiration – a vintage 1983 Fairlight CMI Synthesizer, a clunky synth relic that he scored off EBay. The same model that was at the heart of Kate Bush’s pivotal recording ‘The Hounds of Love’

 

It’s been 5 years of changes for Australian born and London based Hayes. His independent streak has been ramping up for some years now – but reached the pinnacle last year when he simultaneously announced the parting of ways with Columbia records and his marriage to British boyfriend Richard Cullen in a Civil Partnership ceremony at their home in London.

 

Out. Personally, professionally and creatively.

And for the first time in 10 years, in control of his publishing and recording future.

 

Most Americans know the bullet points of Hayes’ pop career. They begin with two words: Savage Garden. As the voice and co-songwriter of those two massive Billboard Number One singles ‘Truly Madly Deeply’ and ‘I Knew I Loved You’ he enjoyed global sales of over 25 million records.

 

After just two multi platinum hit albums, his band Savage Garden parted ways and Darren decided to do his own thing. This included two solo albums, the first being 2002’s poptastic 2 million selling UK and Australian top 5 album ‘Spin’. His 2nd solo album, a deep, dark and broodingly electronic confessional ‘The Tension and the Spark’ featured collaborations with experimental programmers Robert Conley, the renowned Marius De Vries (Rufus Wainwright, Bjork) and mixes by Mark ‘Spike’ Stent (Madonna, Mirwais, Massive Attack). This record seemed to signal a turning point in Hayes’ artistry. It brought forth stunning reviews from the likes of the UK's prestigious NME (describing Hayes as a ‘genius’). The irony of releasing the best reviewed album of his career was that in the US it was in the hands of a record company who, in Hayes’ words, “Just didn’t get itâ€. Rather than lose sleep over it, Hayes decided to focus on what he does best: performance.

 

He spent 2 years touring the U.K, Australia and Asia with variations of a stage show created with long time U2 show designer Willie Williams (U2, Rolling Stones, We Will Rock You). In fact last summer he played to over 30 thousand Brits and triumphantly filmed two sold out and stunningly reviewed shows at Australia’s prestigious Sydney Opera House.

 

Building up an arsenal of songs over what Hayes now describes as his ‘gap years’ he entered London’s Mayfair Studios in October 2006 with producer Justin Shave to record his double album ‘This Delicate Thing We’ve Made’. Like his mentors Peter Gabriel and Annie Lennox, Hayes had been driven by his demons as much as his ambitions. The effect of those teenage years of burying the shameful secrets of both his violent upbringing and emerging homosexuality would fuel a sadness and a sense of longing that would continue to inform his songwriting.

 

Some of the songs on the record would not sound out of place in a musical about Jules Verne or H.G Wells’ ‘The Time Machine’. But they’re just a metaphor says Hayes of his ‘Victorian Science Fiction’ dress code. “With this record I was fascinated with the idea of Time Travel as storytelling device to address regret and the possibility for change. I kept obsessing over the notion that if I could travel back in time to the source of my sadness as a child, I would not choose to bring back the violence or the tears. Instead I’d drag some joy backâ€. In doing so Hayes has managed to craft an album of complex narratives and personal confessions that simultaneously document his arrival at peace within himself and the question that we could all ask ourselves. What would you change, if you could?

 

“It’s not a concept record, but there is definitely the idea that it begins with a loss of consciousness and a giving over to the notion that we are going to go deep into the psyche,†he explains. Songs like ‘Neverland’ are as dark as any Tim Burton fairytale or Del Toro’s ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’. In stark contrast ‘Who Would Have Thought’ is a gorgeous soaring and moody pop vehicle for tenor Hayes to exclaim “Who would have thought the tiny courageous? Who would have thought that love so belated could save me?†As if to say that all the pain and suffering was worth it in the end.

 

And according to Hayes, it has been.

 

“This Delicate Thing We’ve Made†out August. Co Produced by Darren with Justin Shave and Robert Conley. Mixed by Ash Howes (Nelly Furtado, Dido, Kylie).

 

Weird title! :dance:

so he has his own label now,looks like he plans to be round for the long haul