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Richard Hawley, Coles Corner
Audio CD
Disk ID: 1247243
Disk length: 46m 16s (11 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 2005
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Coles Corner | 4:48 |
| 2. Just like the rain | 3:17 |
| 3. Hotel room | 3:42 |
| 4. Darlin' wait for me | 3:53 |
| 5. The ocean | 5:36 |
| 6. Born under a bad sign | 3:41 |
| 7. I sleep alone | 3:45 |
| 8. Tonight | 4:32 |
| 9. (Wading through) the waters of my time | 3:48 |
| 10. Who's gonna shoe your pretty little feet? | 4:08 |
| 11. Last orders | 4:58 |
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Review
Richard Hawley spent the `90s primarily as a guitarist with Pulp and Longpigs, and contributing in-studio for the likes of Beth Orton and Robbie Williams. The 21st century, however, has seen Hawley make his way as a stellar solo artist. A loose tone poem/ode about a specific, well-traveled locale in his native Sheffield, Coles Corner is dense with songs that manage to be both weighty in tone, yet airy in execution. Sung in a thrilling baritone that falls somewhere between Leonard Cohen and Johnny Cash, his lyrics scrutinize that ghostly intersection of places and people, and how little pieces of ourselves we leave behind accumulate to form a kind of psychic footprint. The record bleeds with heart-on-the-sleeve sincerity that has nothing at all to do with indie music's recurring fondness for bitter irony. "The Ocean" is a prime example, filled with slow, sweeping motifs and unabashed grace. Hawley doesn't forget his guitar, breaking in with thick, messy riffs on songs like "Born Under a Bad Side" and slide atmospherics on "I Sleep Alone" and "Hotel Room." It's a satisfying piece of work, and while it cements Hawley's reputation as a skilled songwriter and musician it also exposes him as a world-class hopeless romantic. -Matthew Cooke
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Tracks: 11, Disk length: 48m 48s (+2m 32s)
Tracks: 12 (+1 tracks), Disk length: 49m 10s (+2m 54s)
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