Messy Head

Debut solo album from Tammy Haider. 

Produced and Recorded in Melbourne Australia by Andrew Bencina at Winter Hill. Mixed and Mastered by Andy Stewart at The Mill.

06 - Don't Exist - Tammy Haider

05 - Steady - Tammy Haider

04 - Memories Are Boss - Tammy Haider

03 - Are We Gonna Make It - Tammy Haider

02 - Used To Be Easy -Tammy Haider

01 - Magnetic Pull - Tammy Haider

Although Melbourne songwriter Tammy Haider loves and lives to play music, her lifestyle is slightly atypical. Rather than inhabiting the clichés of inner city life, soaking up sound, living after dark, and falling into dangerous adventures with all the right people; Haider prefers a splendid isolation, more akin to a poet or short story writer.

“It’s how I make sense of my life” she says “I know I can write a good song, that’s a really powerful thing – I’m blessed I can do that. I like taking myself away, not being around people.”

Domiciled in Berlin for several years, Haider got hungry – hungry for new experience, new music, and new ways of creating. When her much-loved ambient/alt-country electro duo Royalchord amicably split, Haider issued a well-received solo EP Genuine Feeling. It was a bridge between Royalchord and her near completed, long-awaited solo debut prospectively entitled The One. Throughout her new work, Haider’s effortlessly authoritative vocal chops take centre-stage around acoustic
and electronic music-spheres, created by Haider and co-producer Andrew Bencina. And while it expands the preceding EP’s wry tales
onto a wider, stranger, more reflective canvas, the new work is highly unfiltered.

And, life uncensored makes for great music in Haider’s world, “Life is hard: but it can be joyful. I didn’t want to make a ‘joyful’ album – that would be a lie. It’s just maybe more peaceful”.

￼“Haider throws you on the back of the truck ...Reserve your energy, Haider's in for the
￼long haul.” Mikey Cahill, Herald Sun

"Tammy Haider is a magic maker... music with a devotionary beauty and elegant honesty to nestle deeply, slowly, and surely into your heart.” Sophie Best, Mistletone Records

“TAMMY HAS a unique style which shows an incredible capacity for synthesizing classic pop and new ideas. She’s provocative and daring in a way that a lot of
people can’t be at the moment. Even though she has experience as a songwriter she’s always able to make her songs sound fresh, like she just discovered the things she’s singing about. You can’t help but admire that” ­ David Nichols, Cultural Commentator

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