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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

"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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Monday, 23 February 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 23 February 2004 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

(as well)

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 23 February 2004 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

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 (twenty-two years ago)

by the way, is harvey williams THE harvey williams?

― joan vich (joan vich), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

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

― piscesboy, Monday, 23 February 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

one 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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

Yes. They're splendid.

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

That's the bloody one!

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

two 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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...

coles corner is wonderful

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

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 (twenty years ago)

three 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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

one 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 (eighteen years ago)

Richard Hawley is a god.

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

please do not toy with our emotions thus!

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

oh i mean it. totally.

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

one 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 (eighteen years ago)

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 (eighteen years ago)

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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 (fourteen years ago)

five 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 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

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

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 23:21 (fourteen years ago)

all of it

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

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 (fourteen years ago)

Very cool. Thanks

― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 23:39 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

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 (fourteen years ago)

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

― o. nate, Thursday, 29 March 2012 19:06 (fourteen years ago)

one 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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

This is really, really, really good.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:30 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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

― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 10 May 2012 13:11 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

Only $53.97 on Amazon

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

jesus christ

― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:51 (thirteen years ago)

Oh man this record really is amazing.

― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 15 May 2012 07:04 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

^ 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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Thanks Jon. I wouldn't have seen that.

― musicfanatic, Tuesday, 26 June 2012 19:05 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

two 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 (thirteen years ago)

underrated deep cut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtO0W0taKHQ

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:26 (thirteen years ago)

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

― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:47 (thirteen years ago)

one 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 (thirteen years ago)

is your verdict based on the vinyl?

― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 19 October 2012 21:47 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

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 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx4xrYx_KHY

god bless richard hawley. his music's perfect for cold, breezy days.

― Daniel, Esq 2, Friday, 17 January 2014 21:06 (twelve years ago)

Sheffield...

― Le passé, non seulement n'est pas fugace, il reste sur place (Michael White), Friday, 17 January 2014 22:21 (twelve years ago)

four months pass...

late to the party on this guy evidently but am totally loving Truelove's Gutter - must get rest of output

― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, January 5, 2010 6:27 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^^^^^

Truleove's Gutter, jesus christ. How did I go so long without hearing this??

― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Friday, 6 June 2014 20:46 (eleven years ago)

five years pass...

why didn't anybody tell me there's a new album out

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:24 (six years ago)

Sorry, barely noticed it out of the corner of my algorithm myself.

― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:25 (six years ago)

sounds like he is still in his "rocking" mode though, which is :(

― Οὖτις, Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:25 (six years ago)

I gather then that you prefer his more languorous mode.

― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:26 (six years ago)

four years pass...

What’s the deal with “Baby, You’re My Light”?

― Al Green Explores Your Mind Gardens (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 31 January 2024 18:13 (two years ago)

one year passes...

As the world goes to shit and the brumal dark presses against the windows, I am glad to be delivered of Hawley's lowlight bendections. Fucking hell, Coles Corner is good innit?

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 24 October 2025 21:01 (five months ago)

I would 100% take an album of explorations like 'Last Orders'. Shit's like Loren Connors.

― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 24 October 2025 21:18 (five months ago)

Did anyone see ‘Standing at the Sky’s Edge’? Saw it last year at the Gillian Lynne theatre and was in pieces at the end.

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 25 October 2025 10:23 (five months ago)

Is that a jukebox musical of his stuff?

― Nicholas Raybeat (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 25 October 2025 17:54 (five months ago)

Well, not really. There’s a few existing songs but bulk are new and are set to serve the narrative not the other way around.

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 25 October 2025 18:11 (five months ago)

cole's corner is still one of my favorite records of the century.

― Daniel, Esq 2, Monday, 27 October 2025 03:13 (five months ago)

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