LEXIE HAYDEN - Another Vice - Independent Release

Though first striking success as an artist with songs such as “Somewhere Drinking” and “Take Me Home,” Lexie Hayden became a household name in the songwriting community when Priscilla Block took “My Bar” into the Top 25; a song in which Hayden is a writer on.

Layering the path of her vibrant next chapter with well-received songs such as “Nothin’ To Be Friends About” and recent collaboration with Jason Nix, “High Enough,” Hayden has notched heightened anticipation for her, debut full-length, Counting Rainbows, flavoring multiple genre influences into a uniquely drawn sound that fluidly moves through the flows of her vocal stronghold.

Coorelating with the album's release, she delivers the focus track “Another Vice.”

Written by Hayden, Darren Rayl, and Emma Lynn White, there’s a float on the breeze aura wrapped within the melodic intro that immediately captures the freeing nature of the lyrics before giving way to a catchiness that bends and bops its way through an unapologetic breaking of chains, moving her away from the typical vices and onto an unexplored road, a non-toxic leap to newfound freedom.  

Melding sonically between pop induced modern country and edgy, rock-n-roll that pulls loosely on the spitfire of groups like Paramore (think “Ain’t It Fun,” “Daydreaming” era), Hayden fully admits that she’s a mess, gripping a long list of bad habits that have been her normal, go-to crutches for helping her cope with poor decisions.

However, swallowed in an insatiable que sera sera essence, the melodic push expertly matches the shoulder shrug that she audibly injects as she tumbles to the chorus, enthusiastically taking back her self-worth by confidently putting up a roadblock on the “bad boy” that could easily become another addictive vice that she doesn’t need.

“Baby, if you’re gonna be bad for me

I think it’s best if I set you free

Baby if you’re gonna make me lose my mind

Imma keep my head on straight this time

Got plenty of practice, a long list of habits

You ain’t worth paying the price

I don’t need another vice”

“Usually never turn down a midnight kiss, but I won’t let this turn into something I gotta quit,” she sings late in the song, boldly stamping an exclamation point of transformation while aptly providing an anthem to the female demographic that gives them okay to let go of what they’ve allowed to hold them back so they can move forward with a newfound energy into their next.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis/Artwork By: Lydia Dall / Dall House Design)