ArtistoftheYear Update: Gemma Hayes May 2011

It's a privilege to have this album in my collection. Gemma Hayes has not stopped impressing me with her music and her songwriting. The whole album is perfect and the songs shows how much Hayes has grown in understanding life, love, and herself. The title gives you a true and real feel of what the album is. As Gemma has done, she "Let It Break", as do I. I'm so glad that Gemma released this album. Even though it's hard for me to listen to the album during the summer, I still love it, ever bit of it.
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Keep Running
Shock To My System
Be Wise, Buy The Album! You'll Be Glad You Did...

ArtistoftheYear (2010)

#1 Gemma Hayes (22 Votes)
There is a reason why Gemma Hayes has won this title, despite the fact that the other artists were voted once or twice, Hayes has a talent to not only pull you into her music but to also make you feel something more than just the surface of a song. She intertwines emotional vocals, repetitive guitar sounds, beautiful lyrics all wrapped together into a stunning song. With songs like, "Let A Good Thing Go" & "Hanging Around", it's no shock that she became a hit in Ireland. With her second album, The Roads Don't Love You, it was her pop album but she didn't distance away from her true self, her true style. She made songs like, "Two Step", that has been featured on Grey's Anatomy and "Happy Sad". Here best songs from the album are, "Another for The Darkness" and "Horses". She took a break from music and then came back with another album filled with the ideas and styles of Gemma Hayes. The Hollow of Morning, focused on the themes of love, loss, loneliness, breaking up, and lingering. Her song, "Out Of Our Hands" became a radio hit in Ireland in 2008 and "Home" followed shortly after the album release with an amazing music video to go along with it. She then released the Oliver EP which was a darker and more mellow sound of Hayes work than the previous releases. Now she is planning on releasing a new album in May of 2011 and has written some songs for Abagail Breslin to sing in the movie Janie Jones.

Gemma Hayes is an amazing artist and the work she has done to get herself this far is astounding.

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The Nominees for AOTW Awards 2010 #8

This is for Best Female Musician of 2010.
(If you want to know more please click on the names of the nominees. <- or click on the word nominees to see all the nominees info and detail.)
1. Adriana Evans
2. Allie Moss
3. Amanda Duncan
4. Becca Johnson
5. Clara C
6. Clare Bowditch
7. Corinne Bailey Rae
8. Emily Hearn
9. Gemma Hayes
10. Gregory & the Hawk
11. Janelle Monae
12. Jilian Linklater
13. Julieta Venegas
14. Lights
15. Lisa Mitchell
16. MiChi
17. Natalia Lafourcade
18. Olivia Broadfield
19. Sky Ferreira
20. Tash Parker

VOTE NOW <- for your favorite female musician!

ArtistoftheWeek:Gemma Hayes 4/17/10-4/24/10

I love Gemma Hayes, I remember the first time I heard her when she played on Grey's Anatomy with her song, "Two Step". Great song. I didn't really cheeck out the artist until about Mid-March this year. 4 years after I heard her singing on Grey's.
I had her second album, The Roads Don't Love You, and I finally listened through the whole album (w/o multitasking) and I found my second favorite song of all time, called, "Another for the Darkness". The melody, vocals, and lyrics, all wrapped up into a great song. After listening to the song I looked for more songs from this wonderful artist. The songs on The Roads Don't Love You, reminded me of grieving and getting over a death of a loved one.
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Two Step
Another For The Darkness
Happy Sad|Easy On The Eye
Keep Me Here|Undercover|Nothing Can
Something In My Way|Horses


Her debut album, Night On My Side, really took my breath away. Especially when I saw the music videos for, "Let A Good Thing Go", "Hanging Around", and "Back Of Your Hand". I really liked the feeling of the album, it's like the feeling of a calm night out on the town. The streetlights and the fast cars fly by while you're calming contemplating about your life.
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Let A Good Thing Go
Hanging Around|Back Of My Hand
Work To A Calm

Her most recent album, "The Hollow Of Morning", is an acoustically melancholic album filled with songs for that empty feeling in the morning hence the title, it's a pretty good for that feeling for the early morning out in the wild with your RV and a can of beans.
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Out Of Our Hands
Home|At Constant Speed|


Her most recent release the "Oliver EP", has some really good calm relaxing songs on it. Like the title track Oliver & Ghost.
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Oliver
Ghost

Now, I can't do this article without talking about her B-Sides and Collaborations.
"Summers In Doubt", the B-Side on the Let A Good Thing Go single, is such an amazing song to begin or end of your summertime fun or drama. Whichever way it's great for the season.
Gemma Hayes collaborated with Anti Atlas for a song called, "It's A Shame", a really well done song by an electronic band I've never heard of before and an artist that I've already heard of.
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Summers In Doubt
It's A Shame [m4a file]






-Gemma Hayes' Music Videos-

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