Detailed item info | Track listing | 1. Coles Corner
2. Just Like the Rain
3. Hotel Room
4. Darlin' Wait For Me
5. Ocean, The
6. Born Under a Bad Sign
7. I Sleep Alone
8. Tonight
9. Waters of My Time, The (Wading Through)
10. Who's Going to Shoe Your Pretty Little Feel?
11. Last Orders
| | Details | | Producer: | Colin Elliot, Mike Timm, Richard Hawley | | Distributor: | Caroline Distribution | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Personnel: Richard Hawley (vocals, electric guitar, 6-string guitar, 12-string guitar, lap steel guitar, Hawaiian steel guitar, Spanish guitar, baritone guitar, hammer dulcimer, lyre, piano, omnichord, vibraphone, glockenspiel, drums, steel drum); Colin Elliot (baritone, piano, upright bass, electric bass, percussion, background vocals); Shez Sheridan (electric guitar, 6-string guitar, 12-string guitar, baritone guitar, background vocals); Gaynor Sutcliffe, Lizz Lipscombe, Susannah Simmons, Lizzie Ball (violin); Naomi Koop, Simon Graham (viola); Liz Hanks (cello); John Trier (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, vibraphone, glockenspiel); Johnny Woods (upright bass); Andy Cook (drums).
Recording information: Yellow Arch, Sheffield, England (2005).
If David Lynch made movies in England, Richard Hawley would likely provide the soundtracks. The British singer/songwriter worked as a guitarist for Pulp and others before emerging as a distinctive solo artist, but the series of albums that began with his 2001 debut full-length, LATE NIGHT FINAL, have proven Hawley to be a truly singular artistic figure. With a smooth, deep croon that suggests Ricky Nelson giving Mark Lanegan voice lessons, Hawley turns out a hushed, lonesome sound that pays homage to elegant '60s pop/rock a la Roy Orbison and Johnny Rivers. COLES CORNER is as fine an exemplar of Hawley's approach as one could want, as twangy, reverb-heavy guitar lines dance around sparse orchestrations and gentle compositions full of satin-bedecked loneliness. Pitched perfectly in a sonic spot triangulated by Chet Baker's vocal albums, Sinatra's ONLY THE LONELY, and the bachelor-pad pop of the Burt Bacharach/Jimmy Webb school, the wee-hours sound of COLES CORNER suggests that, in the right hands, melancholy can be downright fun.
| | Editorial reviews | 4 stars out of 5 - [A] glorious mélange of love, loss, regret, homesickness and romance....This record is endowed with a quality that's all his own...
Mojo
4 stars out of 5 - Hawley resurrects ghosts of music past and breathes new, poignant life into their forms.
Uncut
Ranked #10 in Mojo's The 50 Best Albums Of 2005 - [Hawley] hymned his native Sheffield in purring, broken tones and wry, subtly-charged commonplaces. Genius.
Mojo
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