HALEY JOHNSEN

Guitars, soul and timeless songwriting: With this recipe for success HALEY JOHNSEN has crawled into the auditory canals of her listeners and could convince them. So also with her current album "GONER". The range of the 12 album tracks could not be wider. Somewhere between 80s vibes, intimate acoustic ballads and spherical-poppy guitar walls JOHNSEN draws her red thread through the landscape. All songs have one thing in common: Every line is crushingly honest. Every second is produced on the highest level and creates crater-deep goosebumps without much effort. "GONER" is the perfect mix of profound songwriting and easy-going sounds. Even the most touching tracks can be listened to on the side without having to spoon ice cream out of a way too big cup while crying. And in the faster numbers, where you actually just want to sway along, you can feel the exact mood of the US singer in the writing process from every line, if you concentrate on it. The charming extra about this album is that it seems (and is) absolutely timeless. Good music knows no age, no hypes. Good music is simply listened to and is aware of its quality. What JOHNSEN manages to do is what countless songwriters and producers around the world are trying to do. To make music that touches the heart without having to invent itself. There is no recipe for honest feelings. Either it sparks, or it doesn't. Even if every 2nd song on "GONER" would have the potential to become a hit, none of them seems as if it was constructed for that. You can hear that everything is real. The brilliant lyrics don't describe what's going on, the guitars are sometimes loud, sometimes quiet, the drums sometimes drive you into (positive) madness, sometimes they leave space. When HALEY then also starts to sing, it quickly becomes clear: this voice in our ear canals has come to stay. 3-2-1-BOOM!