Album Review: Pleasureland by Haley

But you can see where the impulse comes from in musicians to rebrand and start again - especially if you've released nine excellent albums (and then some) over a 17-year stretch, and something as irrelevant as your surname has been an unfortunate distraction from them the entire time. So it makes sense, following last year's announcement on International Women's Day that HALEY Bonar would be changing her legal name to HALEY McCallum - her mother's maiden name - and her stage name to HALEY, that the musical output that followed should be correspondingly transformed. It's not as if those preceding nine albums were formulaic, either - HALEY's back catalogue has seen her morph from sweet finger-picking folk on …The Size of Planets to spiky indie pop on Last War.

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