Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern

Darren Hayman’s second full length solo album since dissolving independent legends and John Peel favourites Hefner.‘Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern’ is Darren Hayman’s second full length solo album since dissolving Hefner in 2002. During that time Hayman has also managed to release seven EPs, two singles and an acclaimed electronica album with his short-lived band The French, as well as releasing a double album of 43 unreleased Hefner songs.‘Secondary Modern’ marks a long awaited return to the sparse folk pop sound of earlier Hefner recordings, and was recorded spontaneously in 12 days at Soup Studios in Shoreditch (also recently home to Television Personalities and Comet Gain). The studio lies underneath the Duke Of Uke shop and Darren made good use of ukuleles, banjos, mandolins and fiddles. Darren also made use of the open door policy of his new band Secondary Modern to include contributions from many of his friends. Guests on this album include seventies reclusive legend John Howard, avant brass man Terry Edwards, folktronica elder men Ellis Island Sound as well as members of bright new sparks Let’s Wrestle, The Wave Pictures and Fanfarlo.(Track & Field distributed by Vital/THE)