Hayes is Signe Tollefsen second full album, which the singer describes as ‘from Signe Tollefsen-with-flowers to Signe Tollefsen-with-balls’. There are traces of her debut CD and Baggage but Signe’s sound has moved on from acoustic to more electric. Whatever changed, what remains the same is: as always, that strong powerful voice, the intensity, the emotion, the quality of song writing. The elements that rightfully made her a winner of 2 awards at the Grand Prix of The Netherlands that made legendary Dutch singer Mathilde Santing record one of her songs and that put her on tour with Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus amongst others. And that made famous and well-spoken television personality (and ex-football player) Jan Mulder stammer after her live-on-air-performance ‘just gorgeous’. Hayes was recorded in (Four None Blondes) Linda Perry’s studio in Los Angeles and the We Are Junkies Studio in Eindhoven Holland. The latter is also the home base of the extremely talented band Mindpark, whose Ralph Timmermans co-produced the album with Signe Tollefsen. This duo also plays most of the instruments on ‘Hayes’.