Live, Hayley McLean wields her Fender Telecaster like a guitar slinger channelling Stevie Ray Vaughan and Bonnie Raitt while blurring the lines between rock, country and blues. On record she comes across more like a Shania Twain or Miranda Lambert working with different teams of writers to bring out the strong country influences in her music.
Tracks three and four (“Good Regret” and “That’s When You Know” — both written with Kelly Archer and Ben Caver) are a terrific one-two punch of country pop soul. The disc also shows off McLean's rock side with a live-off-the-floor cover of “Radar Love.”
New and notworthy album releases:
June 3
Echo & the Bunnymen — Meteorites; Parquet Courts — Sunbathing Animal; Miranda Lambert — Platinum Bob Mould — Beauty & Ruin.
June 10
Chrissy Hynde — Stockholm; Glass Animals — Zaba; Imogen Heap — Sparks; Jack White — Lazaretto; Quantic — Magnetica.
June 17
Lana Del Rey — Ultraviolence; The Felice Brothers — Favourite Waitress; The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer — A Real Fine Mess.
June 24
Phox — Phox; Kasai Allstars— Beware the Fetish.
