Listening to Hazel's voice is a bit like being presented with a bunch of flowers by a stranger, such an intimate experience you wonder if you already know her. Here is as genuinely emotional and fresh a voice as you're likely to hear, uncannily natural and unadorned, and with high commercial appeal. She knows how to use it in the studio too. A super-fast learner of melodies, she will pull you out harmony parts on first listen and deliver them bang on pitch, able to blend her voice to fit with any other vocals/instrumentation.
That's the other thing about Hazel: she has innate musicality, has been writing songs since junior school, even won the BBC's New Songwriters competition in 2008. She's stylistically versatile, as happy with rock as soul. And she's pretty nice to be with during those long studio hours.
