Track Listings
1 : No Shadow
2 : Skin 2 Skin
3 : The Look On Your Face
4 : The One

An early fixture of PC Music as QT, Hayden Dunham has become one of its leading lights in recent years as Hyd, addressing the label’s aesthetic arrested development with a more grown-up style of pop songwriting that mixes chart-style chops with cannier traces of up-to-the-second electronic club music. Arriving elven and dreamy on the swole Reese bass ballad of ‘No Shadow’, the EP impresses with her quiet/loud electro-pop ace ‘Skin 2 Skin’, beside the ebullient electro-country twang of ‘The Look on Your Face’ and neuro-pop lullaby ‘The One’.

Track list
You've Got to Be Kidding
Honey
Lonely
Lost in My Dream
Fools
If You Don't Know Now, You Never Will
Wild Motion
London Nightmare
Ending on a Hi Note

Track Listings
1 : I Suck at Grieving
2 : Jealous
3 : Mary - Lauren Hibberd
4 : 90's Kid
5 : Happy for You
6 : Better Than I Was Before

After documenting her life to date on debut album 'Garageband Superstar', more than anything 'Girlfriend Material' captures who Hibberd has become, changed from the artist we met on album one and likely different from the artist we'll meet in the future. 'Girlfriend Material' courses with that exploratory, sometimes confused, questioning feeling. Now more confident and comfortable in the language of songwriting, this album takes the foundations Hibberd started laying on 'Garageband Superstar' and builds them up several accomplished storeys. The tongue-in-cheek humour that won her praise from the likes of DIY, NME, Rolling Stone UK, Kerrang!, Radio 1 and more is still present, but it's joined by new layers of nuance and candidness - think songs that can make you laugh, cry and feel less alone, all within under four minutes. Sonically, too, she's entering new ground, bringing together forever influences like Avril Lavigne, Weezer and Green Day with the likes of Olivia Rodrigo, Liz Phair and Taylor Swift.

Badlands' long lost, third and final album, Dusk isn't really an album at all, but a batch of demos recorded between 1991 and 1992 for the group's then label, Atlantic, which first rejected them, then dropped the band, already mired in personal strife since the troubled sessions for their commercially disappointing second album, Voodoo Highway. Accordingly, the tracks that would eventually surface as Dusk were circulated as bootlegs and would have likely been mostly forgotten if not for the AIDS-related death of singer Ray Gillen, in December 1993, and the subsequent rise of the worldwide web -- both of which undoubtedly helped stimulate interest in the recordings. This led, in time, to their "official" release in 1998 by the Pony Canyon label, but it hardly altered the fact that Dusk's ten tracks were mostly one-take jobs, reportedly cut by Gillen, guitarist Jake E. Lee, bassist Greg Chaisson, and drummer Jeff Martin in just six-to-eight hours. So although the musicianship was impressively solid and the sound acceptable enough, Dusk's songs lacked the usual refinements of a final album mix, and some lyrics were even ad-libbed, resulting in a rather uniform set, devoid of the characteristic variety and bombast heard on Badlands' first two albums. Instead, most cuts might accurately be described as competent blues metal (not unlike previous efforts, just duller), with rare standouts like foreboding opener "Healin'," the distinctively brash "Walking Attitude," and the notably funky "Ride the Jack," still draped under a mantle of weary resignation, reflective of the band's dispirited frame of mind at the time. Also worth mention, though are "The River" and "Lord Knows" -- two promising sketches that may, with additional studio seasoning, have been transformed into powerful, slow-burning blues rockers; as well as the Eastern-flavored "Sun Red Sun," which contained intriguing traces of Alice in Chains, then on the rise along with the entire grunge nation. But, as mentioned earlier, all of the material collected on Dusk was far too raw and undeveloped for proper mainstream consumption, making its commercial existence justifiable only as a parting treasure for avowed Badlands aficionados. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia