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The Best Albums of the 2010s: Gemma Hayes’ ‘Bones + Longing’

November 3, 2019 Justin Chadwick

Editor’s Note: The Albumism staff has selected what we believe to be the 110 Best Albums of the 2010s, representing a varied cross-section of artists, genres, and styles. Click “Next Album” below to explore each album in the list or for easier navigation, view the full introduction & album index here.

GEMMA HAYES | Bones + Longing
Chasing Dragons (2014)
Selected by Justin Chadwick

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Twelve years after Gemma Hayes’ critically lauded debut Night on My Side (2012), with a handful of LPs and EPs released in the interim, the Irish singer-songwriter blessed the world with her most enchanting set of songs yet. A criminally underappreciated lyricist on this side of the Atlantic, Hayes is at her most introspective and inspired here, the shoegaze-indebted sonics and haunting melodies combining to supply the perfect sonic atmosphere for her softly bewitching voice, which possesses a penchant for stirring even the most stoic of souls.

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