Itโs still a month or so before the release of her recent album, Show Me The Right Way, when I meet Annabel Fay at her favourite Herne Bay cafรฉ. Half the customers appear to be friends.
Witchdoctor โ So, itโs all about to get crazy.
Fay โ It will be. Give it a month or two, and itโll be crazy.
Witchdoctor โ When does it come out?
Fay โ The album is out April 11th, so the second single just went to radio about two or three weeks ago. Itโs called โShow Me The Right Wayโ, which is the title track of the album. Itโs kept getting pushed back. Typical musical life, youโve gotta wait, on-hold pretty much all the time. Itโs been finished since October 2009. Iโm extremely patient, one thing people donโt know about me. You kind of have to be. Itโs been finished for a very long time, it took us a very long time, because I went into the studio firstly in September 2007, and itโs been done for years, completely finished. So itโs been a bit frustrating.
Witchdoctor โ Why the delay?
Fay – I think that with the market Iโm going for you people need to like the song, need to relate it to your name. The pop industry is a little bit different to when youโre like underground, have got a huge devoted fanbase. You need to win peopleโs musical love through time on radio and Juice TV. If you just put a song out itโll get swept under the rug.
Witchdoctorโ What youโre saying is that this market is more fickle.
Fay โ Yeah, I reckon people have a 15 or 20 second listening time, when people are flicking through the radio stations. Youโve got to get them in and grab their attention, and donโt let them get bored. My market is very unpredictable and tough, to be honest.
Witchdoctor โ Itโs like a slow roll out.
Fay โ It cranked until the middle of January, so that (โThe Riverโ) had a really good lifetime which was nice, but Iโm leaving like a good six weeks for this next song to get some traction, because people need to be talking about you in the pop industry to get people to want your album. To get that traction you need to have people interested and really anticipating it, which right nowโฆ they wonโt be (laughs).
Witchdoctor โ Everythingโs changing so quickly at the moment, so I guess from the first album to this one itโs like a lifetime.
Fay โ Yeah, even the way weโre dealing with it, going about it, and the music industryโs falling apart and at the same part changing and evolving. So just dealing with itโฆ itโs not what I was used to with the first one. Itโs a lot more hands-on for me as well, Iโm doing everything. I had a lot of control of the last one, but this one is even down to how I want the print printedโฆ every side of it Iโm getting involved in.
Witchdoctor โ And youโre going to get your website up and running? [It wasnโt when we checked].
Fay โ Yeah, I have someone doing it but they donโt like to listen to me very much. This is a sore subject for me. Unfortunately Iโm as tech-savvy as a piece of paper. Iโm old school. I write everything down in my book and tick off my lists, I know what I want to have done, but I donโt know if itโs possible. Iโve talked to them, but they donโt really like to listen to me very much.
Witchdoctor โ How is this album different? Last time you used an overseas producer.
Fay โ Went all over the show.
Witchdoctor โ Is this one similar?
Fay โ Yeah, I donโt think it was supposed to be, but itโs kind of ended up being like that because the producer that we met, heโd done Opshopโs album, Greg Haber. Heโs married to a Kiwi girl so I met him. I met him through Siren records, and thatโs Opshop and Goldenhorse, and we went to the studio, and I donโt think heโs worked with an artist before who hasnโt gone in and said โthis is the song, and this is how I want it madeโ. Like, he works with bands, and I kind of came in with some lyrics and said (helplessly) โso what do you think we should do?โ And we ended up doing like covers of Martha Reeves & the Vandellas and all this crazy stuff. But he kind of noticed that as an artist I like to collaborate, and I learn as I go, I kind of figure out, Iโve got to trial and error, which is a very longโฆ way to make music. So he introduced me to a production team called Future Cut. I was writing with them. They did Lily Allenโs first album, Shakira, Dizzy Rascal. They were the producers, but I was writing. They met me, and I was writing less, and they were like โwhat are you doing? This is a really bad way for you to go downโ, and it was kind of going a little bit countryesque, which is not my kind of jam, so they helped me strip back the album and I went and worked with them for three weeks in Europe because we had to go see them, because theyโd already come to see us. From there the album really took shape, we probably wrote like 80 percent of the album then. I had a whole album that I had to scrap.
Witchdoctor โ So youโve got a whole album you havenโt used.
Fay โ I honestly donโt know what would have happened if weโd put it out. I donโt think weโd be having this conversation. I mean it was great music and stuff, thereโs a few songs on the album left from it, which I had to strip back and rework, but theyโll never be singles.
Witchdoctor โ Which are those?
Fay โ A song called โJessicaโ, which is my song for my sister, and a song called โWho You Areโ, which are songs that over two or three years evolved into what they are. โJessicaโ is like my child of the album, the one Iโm sensitive about. EVERYONE has to like it.
Witchdoctor โ I really liked the electronic effects on that โ the stereo.
Fay โ Yeah it was crazy, it was all inverted drums andโฆ so have you heard the album?
Witchdoctor โ Yeah, Mark sent me a file.
Fay โ Ooo! Youโre probably the first person whoโs heard it!
Witchdoctor โ I have no idea whether the songs are in the right order, because at the beginning thereโs two versions of โThe Riverโ, and I presume oneโs supposed to be at the beginning, and the remix is at the end?
Fay โ No! Yeah, oneโs the remix, no, that wouldnโt be the track listening at all. It wouldnโt be โI want you to like it, so here it is TWICE!โ Iโm not that egotistical.
Witchdoctor โ You said about starting out with a different style. There are parts of the album where it goes a bit more rock, jazzโฆ
Fay โ Soul as well.
Witchdoctor โ And rโnโb.
Fay โ Thatโs why I find it so hard in the studio. The musicโฆ Iโm all over the show, with what I like and what I want to make. And my voiceโฆ I have a very versatile voice that I can kind of fit to most styles. I donโt feel that Iโm locked to anything, which is a producerโs nightmare. One day I come in and want to do a Christian death metal album, the next minute I want to be Beyonce. But thatโs why I do it, what I love about music, so itโs a little bit of a double-edged sword.
Witchdoctor โ Itโs a weird one, because fans will expect you to sing in a certain way.
Fay โ That will never happen with me. There are way too many stones to be unturned for me to be stuck in that pigeonholesque kind of thing. Which could be for my whole life a little bit interesting, because I could alienate fans by doing that, but weโll see how that works in later years, if Iโm still doing this.
Witchdoctor โ Thereโs one song where youโre really going for it in a soul diva way.
Fay โ โLoveโs A Bitchโ, maybe?
Witchdoctor โ And you do that version of โSpookyโ.
Fay โ Thatโs what I kind of like about it though. There are some artists you listen to and theyโve got these unbelievable tones, but you canโt really tell the songs apart. This album, you can tell the songs apart. I call it a story book, because everyone has a favourite song.
Witchdoctor โ A lot of rโnโb albums, you canโt tell one song from the next.
Fay โ There are the standout tracks (on those albums), the hits, and then the โalbumโ tracks. I didnโt want to have many of those. I think having fillers is pointless.
Witchdoctor โ So the producers had quite a big impact on you focusing on a methodology to bring more focus to what you were doing.
Fay โ Yeah.
Witchdoctor โ Left to your own devices youโd be doing a completely randomโฆ
Fay โ Thatโs the thing though, because I donโt have a method for writing. Every songโs created differently. And some of them I went to New York and met up with a good friend of mine and we sat in the studio there and just picked throughโฆ this studio was so small it could literally just fit the two of usโฆ and we would just pick through beats that I liked, and from that I would probably just take the guitar line, and from the guitar line I would write my chorus, and have to get someone else to help me evolve that. I would be a nightmare to write with, because I donโt speak well when Iโm trying to talk about music, so all these hand motions are going everywhere and Iโm going โitโs supposed to be like thisโ, because Iโm not classically trained, so itโs always fun and games in the studio, but if I have a vision Iโll get there eventually.
Witchdoctor โ Are you starting to wish that you had gone to music college?
Fay โ Nah! Life training Iโve called this. I was in school for audio engineering, and Iโm still enrolled in school in Chicago to this day, I kind of never said I wasnโt going, for performance art and audio engineering. But I kind of think that doing this, I would have just finished my degree now, and I would be starting just where I was when I was 18, except that I might know a little bit more about the roots of classical music or something, which would be amazing but irrelevant to what weโre trying to do. What Iโve done is Iโve learnt aspects of the industry, and you only learn by being in the middle of it. I kind of know how to do everything now. Not that Iโm the best at doing it, but do you know what I mean? Iโm kind of lucky in that sense. Kind of thrown into the deep end, and Iโve just been swimming around for like five years.
Witchdoctor โ Are you based in New Zealand?
Fay โ [Nods].
Witchdoctor โ Why that decision? Itโs a very small pond.
Fay โ When I decided to do an album I thought where else to do it apart from the place where Iโm from. I hadnโt lived here in years but I was just finishing school in America and I was like โI could go back to Switzerland but I donโt wanna go thereโ. Iโd never really lived here, so I was like โIโm going to make music, I might as well do it here.โ So I came back, and I havenโt left yet, five and a half years later. Itโs been an amazing place to get into the music industry, because itโs a family, kind of. Thereโs no hierarchy. Itโs not โyour people can talk to my peopleโ kind of separation, which I think is really good in some senses. I know all the people who play my music directly, and I can call up my label head and talk to him, and that I think is really great. Of course thereโs a negative side to that, but as someone who is just starting itโs been a really supportive environment to be in.
Witchdoctor โ I guess if you were in LA there would be security at the door of the record company, andโฆ
Fay โ Exactly. If Iโve got a problem I can just pop up and sit down and have a coffee. And for me, I really like that aspect of doing it here.
Witchdoctor โ Having lived overseas so much, are most of your friends here or all over the show?
Fay โ My solid friends are here now, a few of them are sitting at that table right there. When I moved back here I had like one friend, because I hadnโt been here for so long, and I kind of considered my friends to be in Europe and the States. But over time itโsโฆ the beauty of Facebookโs kept me in touch with them, but in general Iโve got a really solid group of friends here, which is probably why Iโve stayed, because I get along really well with New Zealanders, I like how honest and blunt everyone is and itโs not so much like that in Europe.
Witchdoctor โ Have you got plans to get the music out overseas?
Fay โ Yeah, Iโd love to, but at the same time youโve got to live month by month in this industry, and I literally plan my life a week in advance. Even when Iโm on vacation, I fly by the seat of my pants. But if something came up, of course Iโd be willing. Itโs every musicianโs dream, the holy grail, America, itโs hard to do but everybody wants to do it.
Witchdoctor โ Are your music interestsโฆ you were saying before about your iTunes library. Are they quite diverse?
Fay โ Oh, ridiculously. Itโs just ridiculous, in a good way. Iโve got a radio show as well, which is fun, because I get to broadcast all the strange music that I like in my life. Radio Ponsonby. You can pretty much say and do anything you like, which I find quite lovely. Itโs on Mondays, itโs called โThe Educationโ, I educate people on relevant stuff, which is good. But I think that music is something that when you look at it and you donโt know what you want itโs a really big beast to try to get into. To try andโฆ I like jazz, how do I get into jazz? Itโs hard to find a way to get into a certain style that you like. And all my friends are like โhow do you find this stuff?โ and Iโm like a lot of it I just download and figure out whether I like it or not. I find everything interesting. Thatโs why Iโm in music, itโs not because I have this diehard inner โif I donโt make this music Iโm going to dieโ thing. Iโm not that sort of artist, Iโm more โI make music because I want to add to whatโs already been made, and hopefully music can do for someone else what it does for me.โ
Witchdoctorโ So youโre obsessed with music.
Fayโ Always have been. My whole life. Iโve got to have a soundtrack to my life at all times. So before an iPod came along it was very interesting because I was lugging around CD cases and big piles full of them andโฆ my whole life itโs been more of an emotional gauge for me than anything else. Itโs kind of like my therapy, music.
Witchdoctor โ You obviously love a good lyric.
Fay โ Yeah, you see, I listen to the lyrics, Iโll be with my girlfriends and say โthis is the best melody but the lyrics are likeโโฆ and theyโre like โWhat do they even say?โ And Iโm like โyouโve been singing along the whole time!โ Itโs a perfect example of pop, people arenโt really listening to what youโre saying, itโs more about can I remember the melody, and do I like it. Which is heartbreaking for some people who are in that side of the industry, but you need to respect what youโre doing.
Witchdoctor โ Do you like instrumental music as well?
Fay โ Yep. My favourite example is I just bought this old Louisiana funeral music, because I like Duke Ellington and Etta James andโฆ I like old school. Iโm very open toโฆ except Iโm not a big fan of country, I donโt know why, except for Johnny Cash obviously. Johnny Cash is a gangster so itโs hard not to like him.
Witchdoctor โ Itโs interesting that for every genre thereโs someone whoโs going to go against the grain.
Fay โ And then you follow from there, which is why iTunes is amazing, because you can look on the little sidebar, and itโs like โif you like this youโll like thisโ, and itโs usually right.
Witchdoctor โ It must be really hard for you to decide on a style.
Fay โ Itโs my biggest problem, itโs me trying to decideโฆ itโs all good that Iโm experimental in the studio, but itโs so confusing for someoneโฆ like you need to let people know who you are. I get so excited when I make all these new sounds and new songs, and when you put it together itโs like โwhoarr!โ This album, we did eliminate a lot of songs and strip it back, to make it fit, and still itโs a little bit eclectic, but it makes sense. Itโs an album that was always freshly out of a moment, it was always very reflective.
Witchdoctor โ So โJessicaโ is about your sister.
Fay โ Yes.
Witchdoctor โ โLoveโs A Bitchโ?
Fay โ Yeah, thatโs a fabulous song, itโs a song that when I sing it live I feel like I can run a marathon afterwards.
Witchdoctor โ โSteal Awayโ?
Fay โ Thatโs one of the ones that wasnโt written by me. Itโs written by a guy called Taj Jackson, from a band called the Three Tโs, actually Michael Jacksonโs nephew, funnily enough. But weโre actually having a few issues with that at the moment, because the sample is Sam Cooke. Because Motown said yes, butโฆ hopefully it will stay on the album. Itโs in the chorus, like (sings) โSteal awayyyyyโ, like thatโs from an old-school Motown track, which Motown doesnโt actually own so they canโt clear that. Which we didnโt realise until now. So hopefully that will stay on the album. We could recreate the sample, but I think the problem is, I mean I love sampling which is terrible, but I just love the old sound, the way everything used to be recorded. Soโฆ when you recreate, you can do it, but it never sounds quite right to me. And the beat on it, the timing on itโฆ it has to be sung like this, because itโs on a really weird, off-beat timing.
Witchdoctor โ And โShow Me The Right Wayโ, that sounds almost Bollywood or something.
Fay โ [laughs]. When we were writing it, these guys are jokesters through and through, theyโre always taking the piss. That noise at the top is, heโs probably about six foot three, Nigerian, about 130 kilos, and itโs just him going โhar-har-harโ, and he just pitched it right up. It was hilarious writing it. Itโs my kind of like, like โmy girlfriends getting ready on a Friday nightโ kind of song. In the end what itโs talking about isnโt exactly happy. Itโs a little bit trivial, but itโs about somebody just repeatedly doing something really stupid, andโฆ you know when people just donโt hold themselves accountable? Thatโs what itโs about.
Witchdoctor โ I quite like songs where the feeling is a bit different to what itโs saying.
Fay โ Thatโs exactly what all my music is. Even โRiverโ is a really upbeat song but itโs not a nice message. Itโs nice but just kind of sad.
Witchdoctor โ One thing that does strike me about the album is just how few upbeat tracks there really are.
Fay โ Which a record label would look at and go โwe need another โRiverโ โ. We need another blah-blah- blah. Thereโs a lot of medium tempo tracks, but I really like epic songs, not like the typical pop crescendo, but like the song โAlready Homeโ, which was going to be the title track. But we could never quite get it right. The drums on it now are kind of like an inverted hip-hop drum. I was like โif youโre going to do something like that, donโt make it clichรฉ, donโt make it Christine Aguilera.โ So I was like take a drum that you wouldnโt put with it, which my producer Greg โ heโs an incredible drummer, and he came back with that drum beat. And I was like there you go, it gives a twist on the pop ballad. So it adds a little bit more flavour to it. So I tried to do that with all of them, make them a little bit weird.
Witchdoctor โ There are some nice production touches โ really crisp.
Fay โ I like that sound.
Witchdoctor โ And not really booty bass but nice deep bass.
Fay โ Yeah, kind of big.
Witchdoctor โ But to me there does seem to be, not melancholy, but a reflective quality going through a lot of it.
Fay โ There is a lot of that. But Iโm a bit of a trickster. Like I would never write about something deliberately, or directly, I would write it in my own little kind of morse code, but the point is with those songs you could be talking about any one of the days of my life. My point is if someoneโs having a really awful day, maybe that will pinpoint what they canโt say out loud, and my end goal is that to be someoneโs kind of like crutch at the time. I donโt know how to describe it.
Witchdoctor โ Are you having a big launch?
Fay โ Yeah [laughs]. I feel like New Zealanders donโt really do big launch parties, but Iโm like โwhy not?โ It took me so long, so why not celebrate it for a second. So I think weโre going to do it at the Britomart, Iโm not sure. Iโll pretty much get my family and friends and media together, just for a good party, hopefully, and Iโll just perform the whole album, and hopefully everyone likes it.
Witchdoctor โ And youโll be playing some dates around the place?
Fay โ Yeah, as soon as thatโs done, Iโll start playing anywhere I can. I love playing live, itโs what I love the most, soโฆ
Witchdoctor โ How do you do that? Do you have musicians that you use?
Fay โ Iโve gotโฆ several options. I can do a stripped-back two or three person band, and I can get up to eight people on stage. I think it really depends on the crowd, where weโre playing. Itโs dependent on what Iโm being asked to play.
Witchdoctor โ Are you at all worried about that negative stuff thatโs been said in the press over the past few months?
Fay โ I dunno, itโs hard for anyone not to notice. Initially I was like I donโt really care and I didnโt really notice, but it upset me a little bit. But if this is just the beginning of it, Iโm kind of like trying to grow a thick skin around it. Because even if itโs not to do with that side of things, I make music, and reviewers get to review it, so my whole life if I keep doing this Iโm going to be subject to peopleโs personal opinions. So I think I need to not take that on board personally now, start working up to not worrying. Of course itโs not the nicest feeling in the world, but at the same time I canโt do anything about it, so donโt let it get me down kind of thing.
Witchdoctor โ To my mind they should just be assessing it on the music. Whether Air New Zealand should have paid for itโฆ doesnโt have anything to do with you, or your music.
Fay โ It was the label who took it, and blah blah blah.
Witchdoctor โ And the other thing is NZ On Air have their criteria, and they canโt step outside their own rules. I donโt know if youโve seen this site called Nerdy Framesโฆ
Fay โ Yeah I saw that article actually. Every once in a while Iโll Google myself a news alert, and I was like [gets very loud and demonstrative] โsomeone is wasting a lot of their time saying some really horrible things about meโ.
Witchdoctor โ But I thought it would be terrible if this thing goes ballistic. Like you said, gathers speed or whatever. I think Simon Sweetman has said some quite negative things as well.
Fay โ Yeah, heโs not my biggest fan. [awkward laugh]
Witchdoctor โI did wonder what your perspective was on your independence from your parentsโ wealth, and all that sort of stuff.
Fay โ I dunno, I think at the end of the day if I was trying to be a banker, then it would be irrelevant. There would be the referencing to what my family had done in the past, and their jobs. But I think because Iโm doing music the markโs a little bit missed, and I have tried to establish myself as an artist purely because of that. Because I have never quite got the connect between my musical ability and what I do and apparently to some people it doesnโt exist because I come from a wealthy family. But at the end of the day Iโve kind of just got over that just living here. If people want to look at me with those eyes, it probably says more about them than it does about me. It used to worry me but now Iโm like โpeople can say what they want to say, but Iโm still making music either wayโ. Iโm going to keep doing it, and you donโt have to listen to it. Iโve wanted this my whole life, and just one three-letter word at the end of my name is not going to get in the way of that. Everyoneโs welcome to their opinions, but that will never be a factor in my career, to stop me doing what I love, and if it was I wouldnโt have started this job in the first place. I wouldnโt have been in something that puts me in the spotlight naturally for a job either.
Witchdoctor โ You seem to be quite a resilient person.
Fay โ You have to be. You have to be in this industry. So many things go wrong, and so many people tell you lies, and fake promises, and literally if you let the first couple slow you down and out of the industry, you havenโt even put your foot in the water yet. Even when youโre at the top of your game things are always going to go wrong, so Iโm โdeal with the moment, keep moving onโ kind of thing. Itโs the only way to do it.
Witchdoctor โ Those criticisms that were made, I guess the question is โdo you think thereโs any truth in you having a competitive edge due to the wealth of your parentsโ?
Fay โ Umโฆ I think it gives me the complete opposite. I have to work twice as hard to be considered legitimate. The typical line I get is โwow, youโre so much better than I thought you were going to be.โ Sometimes when I get up onstage people are genuinely surprised, but at the same time because of that Iโm constantly working from minus-1 to zero, and then trying to work up from there. It gives me advantage in the sense that I probably get a little bit more media attention, and people find me a little bit more intriguing for some reason. But on the actual critical, musical side of it I reckon itโs a complete disability, because itโs hard to be taken seriously. But itโs like, again, I knew that was going to happen and it makes me want to play more shows, get everyone to my shows. So I try to turn it into a positive driving force rather than something Iโm worried about or thinking about. Itโs kind of a waste of time.
Witchdoctor โ I can imagine if you let it get to you.
Fay โ Oh yeah. If it ate away at youโฆ it has a couple of times on a bad day, but in general I just kind of knowโฆ I believe in myself and believe in my music and I really like what I do, so Iโm just going to keep going.
Witchdoctor โ When I heard your first album I didnโt know who you were, but I thought it was good, for what it was.
Fay โ I was very young. I was a kid as well. I was 18. Itโs five years โ for my age thatโs a lot of time.
Witchdoctor โ What do you think the real differences are between that and the new one?
Fay โ I just know what Iโm doing more this time. Even when I was making the first album I was working with people who were just really patient with me. And Iโd be like โso what does this do?โ and โhow do we do that?โ They really taught me the whole time. I reckon I probably learnt more in the studio in the two years I was there than I have in the whole time of doing this. Because I decided to try and take in everything from it. But also I just understand a lot more and kind of figured out a lot, and Iโm starting to navigate my sound, because it is going to be quite different throughout my career, but Iโm starting to pinpoint a bit more what was good for my sophomoric attempt. I wrote more and I met people more and I was way more confident in the studio, andโฆ before I was way too reserved and not very confident in my voice. I just knew myself more, knew what I was capable of, wasnโt my own worst enemy.
Witchdoctor โ Have you been, subsequent to the album, been working on even newer material?
Fay โ Iโve been really thinking about it. Itโs a daunting task. But also the more I work those songs, the more I play them, the more I know what Iโm going to do next time. I need to get bored of my music, or play it enough that I could sing it in my sleep, and then from there, itโs kind of weird, it happened with the last one too, from there I kind of know what I want to do. Itโs very strange. After like six months of playing live Iโll know what my next angle is. Itโs bizarre, but itโs just kind of how I work.
Witchdoctor โ Would you like to find regular or permanent collaborators?
Fay โ Oh definitely. Iโve got a couple of people like that, but they donโt live here, and theyโre in very high demand. So I love them but that doesnโt necessarily mean they love me as much as I love them. But they either understand who I am as a musician, or donโt. People either see what Iโm trying to do, and they help me to bring it out, and Iโve had a couple of people like that and theyโve been like gems in my career.
Witchdoctor โ There are so many examples where the artistโs name is in lights, but thereโs someone โ or a team โ behind who are collaborating.
Fay โ Like 95 percent of the people you hear on mainstream radio.
Witchdoctor โ I think Iโve got enough.
Fay โ What a chatterbox, Annabel, itโs hard to shut me up.
Witchdoctor โ Anything else you want to say?
Fay โ Buy my album. Itโs really nice for me to be able to describe the album a bit more so that I can intrigue people to hear it. Because itโs so hard to get, like, a 15- year-old kid to sit down and listen to a whole album. Thatโs near impossible.
Witchdoctor โ Albums are almost extinct.
Fay โ Exactly. Theyโre like, obsolete, which is not ideal.
Witchdoctor โ Chris Caddick in his NZ On Air report has recommended no funding for albums at all, just tracks.
Fay โ I reckon if we do that it will change the face of music too much. Also, youโd have to find a different breed of artist who would be willing to live like that, to make a song, see how well it goes. For a band who all they want to do is make music, if you tell them they can only make one song, thatโs like taking away their livelihood. I see the point, but heโs stripping back music yet again.
Witchdoctor โ To me it seems like an industry decision rather than a musical one.
Fay โ An album is a showcasing of who you are as an artist.
Witchdoctor โ I canโt imagine life without albums.
Fay โ I agree. Some of the best songs Iโve ever found have been those sneaky little album tracks. If you truly love a band you want to hear whatever theyโve got to say on their album.
Gary she sounds like she has a good head on her shoulders, and for a first up effort the music isn’t bad. She also happens to be extremely spunky, which I likey.