Richard Hawley C/D?

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Surprised this has not been done yet. I recently picked up Lowedges and love it. Late Night Exam is on its way to me. What a great voice.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Monday, 23 February 2004 04:22 (9 years ago) Permalink

I've only heard one song of his on an Uncut comp, but I loved it...

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Monday, 23 February 2004 04:24 (9 years ago) Permalink

i've got a single or two of his i quite like but i dunno that i consider it that amazing..

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 23 February 2004 04:28 (9 years ago) Permalink

Richard Hawley is spectacular -- and spectacularly underrated. Late Night Final is a touch better than Lowedges. You'll love it.

― Jody Rosen, Monday, 23 February 2004 05:43 (9 years ago) Permalink

His "Late Night Final" full length and self-titled EP are pretty nice. They find a sweet midpoint between the country-rock moments of Scott Walker and the reverb drenched sound of the Clientele. I didn't care much for "Lowedges" (comes to close to MOR singer-songwriterness for me) but his great voice sure made it go down easier.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 23 February 2004 05:58 (9 years ago) Permalink

This is the Longpigs guy you're all talking about, right? Because I liked that first album of theirs.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 February 2004 06:17 (9 years ago) Permalink

"Baby, You're My Light" is fantastic. It towers so far above everything else that one probably doesn't need anything else.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 23 February 2004 06:44 (9 years ago) Permalink

saw him playing at Cargo a year or so ago, I had no love for the Longpigs so I was a sceptical. He absolutely blew me away. Great voice for sure, but the songs were all really good, and he really interacts with the audiance, you kind of feel like you are up there with him.

― lukey (Lukey G), Monday, 23 February 2004 13:09 (9 years ago) Permalink

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=501

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 23 February 2004 13:27 (9 years ago) Permalink

he really is outstanding. i recommend 'late night final'.

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 23 February 2004 14:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

(as well)

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 23 February 2004 14:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

Yes, he's very good indeed. his first (self-titled) mini-LP is also worth picking up, and yeah, a great live act too

― harveyw (harveyw), Monday, 23 February 2004 14:10 (9 years ago) Permalink

very very very good indeed!
michael f. gill message upthread completely OTM.
he used to play guitar with pulp as well (and many others - a girl band whose name i can't remember right now).

― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:02 (9 years ago) Permalink

by the way, is harvey williams THE harvey williams?

― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:03 (9 years ago) Permalink

the newest was rubbish. 'late night final' is fantastic-o.
he's writing with brett anderson now!

― piscesboy, Monday, 23 February 2004 16:11 (9 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

Coles Corner is pretty lovely! Hazelwood-esque songwriting, big string sections, and that amazing, elegant voice.

― marc h. (marc h.), Thursday, 1 September 2005 03:48 (7 years ago) Permalink

This is going to be one of my favourite albums of the year, no question.

― edward o (edwardo), Thursday, 1 September 2005 22:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

I really liked the first mini album and 'Late Night Final', but there's just not been enough progression between albums. For my money, the strings on 'Coles Corner' just make it a tad lachrymose. Maybe I need to give it another listen....

― Daniel Paton (angriest dog), Friday, 2 September 2005 02:28 (7 years ago) Permalink

This new album really is something special, and I find it more and more special the deeper I get into it.

Hawley has a superb baritone which doesn't remind me so much of Lee Hazlewood as of latterday Nick Lowe - indeed, Coles Corner is to Sheffield what Lowe's absurdly overlooked 1998 masterpiece Dig My Mood was to Brentford; a mournful muse through darkened streets, trying to reclaim past feelings for future lives. Perhaps the record's most remarkable facet is its ability to take forms like '50s C&W and Sun Studios rock and make them sound chillingly contemporary - the chill being the uncertainty and impermanence which underline and embolden Hawley's warm voice.

For me it cuts deepest in its final third - from the nocturnal suicidal ideations of "Tonight," down through the ghost of Cash shining behind "Wading Through The Waters Of My Time," towards the near non-existence of "Who's Gonna Shoe Your Pretty Little Feet?" - a lullaby which sounds a hundred years old and penetrates as painfully as anything on the last Cat Power album - before the world, the people, the music, the flower in her hair, dissolve into "The Ocean" of amber Aphex electronica of the closing "Last Orders." An extraordinary record, and certainly one for the end-of-year list.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 12 September 2005 06:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

Really great album, but my favourite song is 'Born Under A Bad Sign'. Hasn't it got a kind of Morrisseyesque feeling?

― zeus, Monday, 12 September 2005 06:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yes, it would have fitted very well on side two of Vauxhall And I.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 12 September 2005 06:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

if i absolutely loved his production and arrangements on the 'a girl called eddy' album, would i enjoy his own albums?

― derrick (derrick), Monday, 12 September 2005 07:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yes. They're splendid.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 12 September 2005 07:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

Definitely in the same ballpark, aesthetically - I would call it the first great album of autumn; it's got that hazel(wood) glow about it.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 12 September 2005 07:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

This is one of those really embarrassing things, but what is that stupidly famous 50s instrumental that "Hotel Room" sounds EXACTLY like, Marcello? I simply cannot remember the name...

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 12 September 2005 07:48 (7 years ago) Permalink

in the popcharts! ace. He 'did' Fopp in Sheffield the other week, it was pretty wonderful. His records are generally shoved to the fore, shopshelfwise, up here.

― Alex in Sheffield (Alex in Doncaster), Monday, 12 September 2005 07:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

Sounds a bit like "Sleepwalk" by Santo and Johnny to me (though I will check this properly later).

(xpost)

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 12 September 2005 08:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

That's the bloody one!

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 12 September 2005 08:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

Look forward to hearing this, Late night final's one of my favourites from the past 5 years.

I wish he'd produce someone like Springsteen or Walker, that intimate ghostly style would work a treat with them.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 12 September 2005 10:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

Finally picked this one up, and I have to say this is his best yet. Great chilling out or date music.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Friday, 16 September 2005 11:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

x-post Yeah, very Nick Lowe. But there's something ghost-story like to "Coles Corner."

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 18:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

Coles Corner is fabulous. Wasn't quite so impressed with Lowedges.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 19:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

One of my top 5 favorite records of the year. The title track and I Sleep Alone are immortals.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 00:26 (7 years ago) Permalink

fantastic and timeless again.
saw him live in madrid over a month ago and it was the most charming show i had seen for ages.

― joan vich (joan vich), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

Everyone I play this to pulls a face and says "God, this is depressing. Put something else on." Their loss.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 11:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

Didn't he & Morrissey work together years & years ago? Nothing came of it, as far as I know (it may even have been pre Viva Hate)

― bham, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

Apparently "Hawley once auditioned to be in Morrissey's backing band but got cut due to having the audacity to sing backup vocals"!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 17:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

Coles Corner is wonderful, and his gig at the Scala effortlessly flew into my top 5 of 2005. Enchanting and often surprisingly moving stuff.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 18:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

and his quotes between songs are always sweet and funny. go see him live!

― joan vich (joan vich), Thursday, 24 November 2005 01:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

Been listening to Coles Corner all weekend after reading this thread. It's wonderful. This is how You are the Quarry should have sounded.

I'm reminded mostly of Fred Neil - the baritone, the only-just-there backing on some tracks, the Roy Orbison connection etc.

― bham, Monday, 5 December 2005 10:28 (7 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

coles corner is wonderful

― slow jamz and white guy indie acoustic shit (Chris V), Thursday, 22 December 2005 11:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

Well the end of the year is upon us and I have bought many, many cds this year. Cole's Corner is hands down the best.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Sunday, 25 December 2005 17:27 (7 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

I dug deeper into his catalog and am continually impressed by the songs. The two prior records Late Night Final and Lowedges are also terrific. I like how some of the tunes like "No Way Home" feel like they would fit in perfectly in a David Lynch movie.

I also caught his show here in new york a couple of weeks ago - fun time, packed house, stellar backing band.

― erv (Abe Froman), Sunday, 9 April 2006 15:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

Don't forget about the self titled ep erv, it is very good.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Monday, 10 April 2006 00:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

New album Lady's Bridge may even have achieved the impossible and out-gorgeoused Coles corner!

― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 18:50 (5 years ago) Permalink

Richard Hawley is a god.

― Davey D, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 18:53 (5 years ago) Permalink

please do not toy with our emotions thus!

― henry s, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 18:56 (5 years ago) Permalink

oh i mean it. totally.

― CharlieNo4, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 19:25 (5 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

Anyone else heard Lady's Bridge yet? Not out here yet, but I have been bingeing on Cole's Corner + Lowedges for the past month or so.

― fritz, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:38 (5 years ago) Permalink

I haven't heard good things about it, but haven't heard it myself. It'll be tough to top Cole's Corner, though.

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 6 September 2007 19:15 (5 years ago) Permalink

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eh, i see upthread that i got into it for at least one day/night; that momentary connection with an album will sometimes happen when i'm ''strung out'' from work.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 16 February 2011 11:53 (2 years ago) Permalink

lol Ned Lady's Bridge is probably his weakest album!

it is still great tho

― I, Mr. Sneer Joy (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:26 (2 years ago) Permalink

Good, then everything will be even better.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:28 (2 years ago) Permalink

lol Ned Lady's Bridge is probably his weakest album!

I concur. I haven't listened to Truelove's Gutter in a while. Need to check that one out. I remember really liking the first track and 'Remorse Code.'

All the talk upthread about Cole's Corner is otm. An amazing album.

― righteousmaelstrom, Wednesday, 16 February 2011 16:35 (2 years ago) Permalink

(really wish thered be another girl called eddy collab)
― establishment man cloggin up ur spills (Hunt3r), Sunday, May 23, 2010 10:59 PM (8 months ago)

^^^

― Poll Makossa (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 February 2011 20:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, of the three albums I have Lady's Bridge is definitely my least favorite. Its a complete toss-up as to whether I love Truelove's Gutter or Cole's Corner more - pretty much depends on my mood. Both are fantastic though.

― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 February 2011 20:04 (2 years ago) Permalink

Handy link to the short but sweet thread about A Girl Called Eddy

― What You Know Is POLLS!: The Orson Welles Poll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 24 February 2011 02:36 (2 years ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

Somehow I never heard of this guy until recently. Late Night Final is pretty great. Trying to decide which one to get next.

― o. nate, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:50 (1 year ago) Permalink

Cole's Corner

― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

they're all great though

― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^. cosign cole's corner as the best place to start. stunning.

― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

Definitely 'Cole's Corner'.

― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

He's really great autumn music, isn't he? Truelove's Gutter has been my soundtrack for the last few days. Really reminds of No Other by Gene Clark with the sprawling arrangements

― thats a bass, motherfucker (hypehat), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 13:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

dude is a force of nature

― unorthodox economic revenge (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 5 October 2011 15:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

Any news about his next release? His impossible to read website says he's in the studio working on it (as of Sept. 5th.)

Now I have to listen to Truelove's Gutter and No Other (my favorite album) back-to-back. What torture.

― thinveneer, Wednesday, 5 October 2011 16:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

5 months pass...

Standing At The Sky's Edge (Due to be released on 07 May 2012)

― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 22:23 (1 year ago) Permalink

Apparently it's supposed to be stripped down and 'psychedelic'. I love the guy so respect whatever he wants to do, but am a little wary of what it's gonna be...

― I'm not going leftfield on you... (hypehat), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 22:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

I loved Cole's Corner. What else is good by him?

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 23:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

all of it

― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 23:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

Late Night Final - almost as good as Cole's Corner
Lowedges - warm-up act for Cole's Corner, also great. maybe loses some focus in the second half.
Lady's Bridge - follow-up to Cole's Corner, has a few country-ish moments
True Love's Gutter - songs get longer, more epic/langorous arrangements

― You big bully, why are you hitting that little bully? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 23:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

Very cool. Thanks

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 23:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

Kinda disappointed (but not really) he didn't go with the naming convention of previous albums and just called it "Sky's Edge."

Looking forward to this. I thought Lady's Bridge was weak but True Love's Gutter is pretty amazing.

― righteousmaelstrom, Thursday, 29 March 2012 14:53 (1 year ago) Permalink

Cole's Corner is so much better than the others

― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

I'd say "Late Night Final" is right there with it.

― o. nate, Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:06 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/03/richard-hawley-standing-at-review

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

This is coming out tomorrow?! I didn't know he had one coming out this year! S-T-O-K-E-D

From the review I'm highly intrigued about the direction he's taking with this album. I'd personally be just as happy with Coles Corner retreads but I'm glad he's expanding the sonic elements.

― musicfanatic, Monday, 7 May 2012 20:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

This is really, really, really good.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

Not feeling a whole lot of this year's releases, so high hopes for this being my clear favorite of the year so far.

― musicfanatic, Monday, 7 May 2012 20:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

Listening to this again, first time since Monday; lots of really amazing guitar playing. Definitely his most rocking album, and pretty sprawling and psychedelic and heavy - 9 tracks and just over 50 minutes, iirc. A couple of lovely, quieter moments, too, but some of his lead playing, riffing, and solos are scintillating. Really nice to hear a proper guitarist go for it, none of this plinky plinky post-Edge Coldplay bollocks.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 10 May 2012 09:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

Two minutes into song 1 and I am already sure I'm going to love this.

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 10 May 2012 13:11 (1 year ago) Permalink

someone plz tell me there's going to be a vinyl release of this

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

Only $53.97 on Amazon

― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

jesus christ

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:51 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh man this record really is amazing.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 07:04 (1 year ago) Permalink

This needs a U.S. release to at least get on the goddamned calendar.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 01:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

^ Seriously! I may be wrong, but I don't remember there being a separate US release date for his past couple of records. I'm passed the point of spending 18 dollars for an import album.

― musicfanatic, Thursday, 31 May 2012 23:52 (1 year ago) Permalink

yeah really. I want to give this guy my money, but $60 is insane

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 1 June 2012 02:02 (1 year ago) Permalink

It sort of bums me out that I keep unintentionally stumbling across the new Paul Weller everywhere, but this damned thing can't even get released over here.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 1 June 2012 02:58 (1 year ago) Permalink

So thanks to Pitchfork I now know this is getting a U.S. release. But not until the end of fucking September.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 02:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Thanks Jon. I wouldn't have seen that.

― musicfanatic, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 19:05 (11 months ago) Permalink

I keep hoping it will maybe at least pop up on iTunes, but nope, probably not until that September release. I really don't see the need for these kind of staggered release dates in 2012.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 19:28 (11 months ago) Permalink

Just now on FB from Klive Humberstone of In the Nursery:

Just bumped into Edwyn Collins in Town. How bizarre and how lovely. He's in Sheffield to 'jam' with Richard Hawley (hope that's not supposed to be a secret!). Had a brilliant chat.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 18:09 (11 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

wtf this charted at #3 in the UK?! I'm glad he's popular SOMEwhere.

still holding out hope that I can get a vinyl copy of this

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 14 September 2012 23:21 (9 months ago) Permalink

underrated deep cut

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:26 (9 months ago) Permalink

now deemed to be a "national treasure" over here.

― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:47 (9 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

latest one's a bit of disappointment. Pfork unfortunately OTM that it seems like a bit of an over-course correction from the previous record that sounds more like a 90s Oasis/Verve throwback than a step forward. it still has its moments, but the gloss of fuzzy guitars works against the material.

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 19 October 2012 21:21 (8 months ago) Permalink

is your verdict based on the vinyl?

― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 19 October 2012 21:47 (8 months ago) Permalink

nah I broke down and got the MP3s. But my issues are more with the arrangements not the sound/mastering

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 19 October 2012 22:18 (8 months ago) Permalink

The sound is as lush and well recorded as ever. I can see and understand people taking issue with the arrangements though. But I really like it: it is a throwback, but all his records are, and I find it really refreshing and exhilarating to heat someone play guitar like that.

― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 20 October 2012 04:57 (8 months ago) Permalink

it's true all his records are throwbacks, my issue is with the particular period this one harkens back to

― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 October 2012 16:09 (7 months ago) Permalink

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