Hayes, Liam

Hayes, Liam

Dancing Backwards

Weird Vacation

A brand new album from acclaimed American musical artist Liam Hayes (Plush). Liam Hayes is an acclaimed American musical artist known for his songwriting and uncompromising approach to making records.Hayes’ songs are recognized for their exquisite melodies, poetic lyrics and distinctive vocals. He’s released seven albums, two singles and a soundtrack, and applies his craftsmanship to a variety of genres from orchestrated pop to stripped down rock. Comparisons to Brian Wilson, Laura Nyro, Carole King, Harry Nilsson, Badfinger (and even Prince) are numerous. His music takes the best of radio and stellar classic pop records of the 60’s and 70’s and brings it into the present.Along with making records Hayes has appeared on screen performing his music in High Fidelity (directed by Stephen Frears) and A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (directed by Roman Coppola) which he also wrote the soundtrack for.His latest album, Dancing Backwards, sees Liam stepping through the shadows in his life and into a new musical day.Reunited with legendary arranger TOM TOM 2084 (Chi-Lites, Phil Collins), and in this, their first production for Hayes are TOM’s son, Terrence Washington and multi-instrumentalist / producer / arranger Vincent Carlo.