VMP Magazine
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Jackie Hayes Blasts Her Intrusive Thoughts on ‘Over & Over’
“I really think that I need to calm down,” Jackie Hayes chants in her pillow-punching Over & Over single “Focus.” Per the LP’s circular title, such anxious sentiments tend to resurface on the Chicago singer-songwriter’s 10-song LP, which is a coming-of-age portrait of an early 20-something learning how to sit with herself. “I had a lot of these self-imposed thoughts about self-sabotage,” the 23-year-old artist says of writing Over & Over. “That was something that I struggled with for a really long time, and I still do to a degree. I was feeling very insecure about all aspects of my life, whether it’s my personal relationships, how I come across to people, my looks, my career.”
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Interpol’s Once-Bright Lights Have Dimmed
Each week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is The Other Side Of Make-Believe, the seventh LP from Interpol.
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Fire, Walk With Angel Olsen
Every week, we tell you about an album we think you need to spend time with. This week’s album is the sixth studio LP from Angel Olsen, Big Time.
