City Sounds: Hayley Marsten, 21 February
Saturday 12:00pm, 1:00pm and 2:00pm 12pm, 1pm & 2pm, Edward Street entrance of the Queen Street Mall
If HAIM & Shania Twain got together to make music, their sonic sister would be Hayley Marsten. Her sophomore release, Girlhood, glittered into the world in June 2023. As described by Apple Music ‘her darkly dramatic country anthems bear rousing traces of 1970s rock’, Girlhood is a triumph.
Her sharp pen and open heart created her stellar debut, ‘Spectacular Heartbreak’ in 2019. 3 years on from her debut, Hayley has signed with Cheatin Hearts Records, graced the stage of CMC Rocks, and toured nationally with headline shows and major support slots.As described by Marsten ‘Girlhood is an album for my younger self’, but it most closely
represents where she’s at right now, both as an artist and a person: sometimes sassy, always heartfelt. And something tells us Baby Hayley would wholeheartedly approve of Girlhood, which is, unquestionably, her adult counterpart’s most honest and accomplished set of songs to date.