945. Hayden - The Closer I Get

Kims was a bit of an indie record store empire here in New York - a boutique filled with dvds, cds, lps and posters... over the years the empire has whittled down to nothing, even their flagship has been vacated and they've moved to a space a third of the size. Anyway, in the west village they had a little underground post - I walked in and heard something good and found out it was Hayden. This disc gets pretty close to being something great, but as with many solo artists, there isn't anyone to reign in the bad or odd ideas so the disc ends up losing its footing, but does get pretty close.

7.4 out of 10