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I don't know if the name Darren Hayes rings some bells to you, but I'm sure that if I say Savage Garden you recognize them at once. Well, Warren was half of the Australian pop-rock duo (the other half being Daniel Jones), that was made famous by lucky singles as "To The Moon And Back", "Truly Madly Deeply", "The Animal Song" and "I Knew I Loved You". After the two Platinum awarded albums with Savage Garden, Warren started a brilliant solo career and sold 5 million albums, to be added to the 34 million sold in the SG years.
"Secret Codes And Battleships" is his fourth studio album, produced by Carl Falk and released last October 21st on Mercury Records in Australia, on EMI Records in the United Kingdom and on his own label Powdered Sugar for the rest of the world.
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I think that this new album is probably his best one as a solo artist: it's eclectic and homogeneous at the same time, modern sounding but with one foot in the eighties for what concern the songwriting; it's full of catchy pop gems, perfectly crafted, arranged, played, mixed and produced.
But stop with the talking, and let's start listening: here's the first single/video off the album, "
Talk Talk Talk"; the second one "
Bloodstained Heart"; the last one so far, "
Black Out The Sun". And if you like these tracks, be warned: there are even better songs on offer!