On The Verge Of Amazingness

The first thing I have chosen to ramble about is Darren Hayes comeback. I use that word lightly, as while this may be his first album since his departure with Sony BMG a while ago, he has never really had any failure as a solo artist. Since leaving Savage Garden, he has seen all of his UK released singles venture inside the top 20. True, his last album 'The Tension and the Spark' underperformed tragically, but I put that down to the UK record buying public not knowing a decent record if it slapped them in the face and said "Stop listening to that shit. It's as original as Westlife!".

Even though Darren uses the concept of time machines in songs from his new album, lets escape the past and concentrate on the future - namely Darren's forthcoming 25 track opus 'This Delicate Thing We've Made'. The first single from it is the joyfully titled 'On The Verge Of Something Wonderful' - the video for which you can see below:



Who else could write unique and quirky
lyrics such as "A trip to the dentist, the Hollywood black list"?

This is just one of the gems on what looks certain to be a collection of Darren's strongest material to date! From the nine songs I've heard so far, standouts are the epic sounding 'How To Build A Time Machine' which opens with the line "If I have understood correctly, velocity equals the distance travelled divided by time", the beautiful ballad 'Words' which should please all the fans of Darren's 'Truly madly deeply' style ballads, and 'Bombs Up In My Face' which I couldn't explain to you even if I tried. All I can say is... it sounds nothing like him vocally or musically but it is fucking amazing! "The President who fucked the world for every future boy and girl is golfing in Arruba with a suntan and scuba" is one such line from said song.

August 20th is the day the album gets its long awaited release. I expect to be obsessing over the entire project for at least the next twelve months.

In the words of Darren himself, "Who would have thought it could be amazing?"