You Will Not Die, by Darren Hayman

You Will Not Die

by Darren Hayman

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1.	How It Could Be 03:09	buy track
2.	You Were My Map 04:12	buy track
3.	Don’t Haunt Me 04:09	buy track
4.	A Real Human Being 04:10	buy track
5.	Let’s Drift 03:22	buy track
6.	Love Is Through 03:57	buy track
7.	Otium 03:04	buy track
8.	A Room Within a Room 03:39	buy track
9.	No Lime For The Gin 03:42	buy track
10.	The Safest Way 03:30	buy track
11.	Turn My Grey Tick Blue 02:40	buy track
12.	Feel Like This Every Night 03:25	buy track
13.	Feel Like This Every Night 03:09	buy track
14.	Here’s the Stillness 04:07	buy track
15.	Loser Sun 04:06	buy track
16.	Say You Want To Be Alone 04:12	buy track
17.	We Are Repaired 05:04	buy track
18.	Easter Gold 03:00	buy track
19.	Actually I Still Really, Really Miss You 03:50	buy track
20.	Holiday Eyes 04:14	buy track
21.	Where Were You 04:34	buy track
22.	Adverse Camber 03:49	buy track
23.	I Am Owned 05:14	buy track
24.	You Were Always Here 03:24	buy track

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“You Will Not Die” from Darren Hayman
4th November 2022 on double vinyl & double CD from Fika Recordings
 
Following a stream of thematic and conceptual albums over the last 15 years Darren Hayman has recently returned to a more introspective, personal kind of music. Darren received critical praise, awards and government grants for albums about the witch trials in the English Civil War; the mid 20th-century boom in new towns; forgotten rural communities; and the political writings of William Morris. 
 
“You Will Not Die is about relationships of all kinds beginning and ending, but it's also about our interior lives and how we process change as we get older. I was thinking about mortality and the temporariness of everything but also thinking of that fragility as a very beautiful thing to try and put into music."

"I think of this record as taking place at night, in contrast to the daytime setting of Home Time. This is an album about empty dance floors, lacklustre parties and lonely night buses home." The record is entirely electronic and recorded on Darren's collection of '70s synthesisers. "These instruments themselves are very fragile and mortal, they corrode and decay and behave in erratic ways. They do however, remain alive, for now." 

 
Darren is the only musician on the album and the music conforms to a strict set of self-imposed rules; only one voice, only 12 tracks, only one polyphonic instrument. ̈Through this control and limited palette I found new melodies and structures. I wanted these old machines to guide me towards my most human record. ̈

'A Real Human Being' is inspired by Darren's experience of life drawing. "Modern life encourages us to reduce people to images, jokes, memes. In life drawing, you're treating the person as a form, watching where the light and shadows fall, and then you're reminded that they are real, alive."

In 'No Lime for the Gin', a group of old friends is reunited in middle age, holding a half-hearted party where the talk is dominated by their hopes and broken dreams. 'Turn My Grey Tick Blue' is a wry look at the anxieties of dating in the digital age.

'You Were Always Here' ends the album on an optimistic note. Finding love late in life, the narrator ruminates on how the bad things happened for a reason, and that perhaps we always end up where we're supposed to be.

"In recent years my life has had its own upheavals and it would seem weird not to have this emerge in my music," says Darren. Home Time (2020) was a bright, acoustic, set of songs but was, at its heart, a break- up album. "I wanted to make fun of myself and of this kind of record."

You Will Not Die is a much slower and more brooding voyage through similar waters. It is a seductive, soulful collection of songs and instrumentals that sits among Darren's most emotive and intelligent work.

“bold and unique" The Sunday Times 
“Hayman has hit a creative purple patch... a treat” Mojo  “uniquely intimate and very satisfying” BBC

credits

released November 4, 2022

All songs written by Darren Hayman, except ‘Here’s the Stillness’ by Darren Hayman and Robert Rotifer.

Voice on ‘You Were Always Here’ by Katharine Blake.

Consultant producer Johny Lamb.

Mastered by Ian Button.

Recorded 2020/21

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This is the official Bandcamp page for songwriter Darren Hayman, the Indie band Hefner, The French and other side projects.

This bandcamp page was compiled by Audio Antihero - audioantihero.bandcamp.com

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discography

You Will Not Die

Nov 2022
PRE 014: Hefner – Steve Lamacq session 24.03.99

Jul 2022
PRE 012: Hefner – Steve Lamacq session 15.07.98

Mar 2022
PRE 013: Hefner – John Peel session 13.10.98

Mar 2022
Music to Watch News By

Feb 2021
Actually I Still Really, Really Miss You

Dec 2020
The Doll's House Room

Jun 2020
Home Time

May 2020
I Can Travel Through Time

Apr 2020
Songs of High Altitude

Sep 2019
12 Astronauts

Jul 2019
Thankful Villages Volume 3

Nov 2018
The Hayman Kupa Band

Jul 2017
Thankful Villages Volume 2

May 2017
Trains

Aug 2016
Thankful Villages Volume 1

Jun 2016
Someone to Care For - The Hayman Kupa Band

May 2016
Bad, Bad Boy

Apr 2016
Florence

Nov 2015
Folk Lullabies for Children and the Childless

Jul 2015
brute love 03

May 2015
brute love 02

Mar 2015
brute love 01

Feb 2015
Dubs for Socialists

Feb 2015
Chants For Socialists

Jan 2015
DOG E.P.

Jul 2014
Boy, Look at What You Can't Have Now

Feb 2014
Blue House

Dec 2013
Bugbears

Jul 2013
Old Man Don't Waste Your Time / I Don't

May 2013
The Four Queens EP

Apr 2013
The Violence

Nov 2012
Field Recordings for Lido

Oct 2012
Lido

Aug 2012
The Best Of Hefner

Mar 2006
Essex Arms

Oct 2010
The Fidelity Wars (expanded edition)

Jun 2008
Great British Holiday EPs

Aug 2008
January Songs

Jan 2011
The Ship's Piano

Apr 2012
Local Information

Aug 2003
Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee

May 2008
Catfight

Jul 2006
Breaking God's Heart (expanded edition)

Jan 2007
Madrid

Jul 2009
Christmas In Haworth

Nov 2011
Kick, Snare, Hats, Ride

Jul 2002
The Stereo Morphonium

Aug 2005
Vostok 5

May 2012
We Love The City (expanded edition)

Sep 2008
The Shit Piano

Feb 2012
Dead Media (expanded edition)

Oct 2011
The Green and the Grey

Jun 2011
Antony Harding and Darren Hayman Split Single

Feb 2011
Porn Shoes

Aug 2012
Boxing Hefner

Apr 2000
Table For One: The Dessert Menu

Mar 2007
Losing My Glue EP

Feb 2011
Maida Vale

Dec 2006
I Taught You How To Dance

Nov 2011
Dagenham

Jul 2003
Pram Town (A Folk Opera)

Jan 2009
Songs for Harmonium and Drum Machine

Nov 2008
Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern

Nov 2007
Bad Policewoman

Jul 2007
Table For One

Sep 2006
Cortinaland

Jul 2005

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