Year Released: 2006 Label: Source Year Bought: 2006 On the TV show 'Lost', there's a notion that the way to stop your brain from haemorrhaging because of time travel is to locate a 'constant' - someone in your life that you can go to at any point on your travels that will essentially ground your mind and enable you to get a grasp on reality. Weirdly, Gemma Hayes is the musical equivalent of mine. I always seem to get her album or see her live at a transitional period of my life, and I always go back to her when I need to be grounded. 'The Roads Don't Love You' is her second album, following her from her Mercury Prize-nominated debut 'Night On My Side'. Released in 2005, the record is more radio-friendly than her debut, not that that meant her tunes got any air time. For some reason, she's always been an underground artist with a cult following, despite having a beautiful voice, great songs and a very marketable image. (Apparently Louis Walsh ...
Pretty much every day I listen to a record from my collection randomly picked by my daughter before she goes to school. This is to justify still having hundreds of CDs (and a few cassettes and vinyl)