Three Year ‘Haze’

"On The Verge Of Something Wonderful"


There couldn’t be a better way to ring in the new school year than receiving a copy of the much over due Darren Hayes album.

Sure going on a vacation or winning some money would have been great, but after waiting three years for this CD, I can honestly say it’s better than winning the money.

“This Delicate Thing We Have Made” was released on Tuesday. After going to three different Best Buys to find it, I finally got it. I guess that’s the part of the problem with being an indie artist and overseas.

If you don’t know who the hell I’m talking about, he is the former lead singer of the 90’s band Savage Garden. They were famous for their tracks “Truly Madly Deeply,”
“I Want You” and “I Knew I Loved You.”

Many Americans don’t know that Hayes has been on a solo path for a while now. He has released two solo albums on major labels, and then decided to really go ‘solo’ by starting his own label, Powdered Sugar, enabling him to do whatever his heart desired on this new album.

Hayes, who currently lives in England, did a mini-American tour earlier this year to promote his album. He will be back in the states some time early in 2008.

So why am I telling you this, you ask? No, not for the greedy self-interest that I wanted to spiel on about him for hours… but one: to promote and two: to give yet another example of how record companies control artists art, forcing them to do their own thing. It’s been three years, and I felt like telling someone.