Track Listings (11) - Disc #1| All Artists: Richard Hawley Title: Late Night Final Members Wishing: 6 Total Copies: 0 Label: Bar/None Records Release Date: 1/22/2002 Genres: Alternative Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock Styles: Singer-Songwriters, Indie & Lo-Fi, Singer-Songwriters, Adult Alternative Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 032862012327 |
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Debut full length for singer/songwriter who's worked with Longpigs & Pulp, the followup to the critically acclaimed self-titled mini album. Q magazine gave it 4 stars & said, 'His voice is a deep magnificent thi... more » |
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Album Description Debut full length for singer/songwriter who's worked with Longpigs & Pulp, the followup to the critically acclaimed self-titled mini album. Q magazine gave it 4 stars & said, 'His voice is a deep magnificent thing, rich & deep, like Ian McCulloch doing a sad Roy Orbison, and the 11 songs on Late Night Final are slow, studied and methodical, full of grace and guitar-plucked wonder. Even the happy songs sound sad, but romantically so. This isn't a record to prompt tears but goosebumps'. The Guardian UK said, 'This is music to rummage through charity shops to, and Hawley's own heart is in the easy-listening vinyl you'd find there. No Way Home is shuffling country as played by Dean Martin, and Lonely Night takes its desolate atmosphere from Elvis's Blue Moon, but for the most part Hawley models his deep, mellifluous voice on Frank Sinatra and builds elegant waltzes from tearful melodies and subtle brush drums'. 2001 Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsSentimental Longing. Teardrops and Heartache. Beautiful 06/14/2003 (5 out of 5 stars) "A review from othermusic.comI can't quite pin down why I find the new record by sometime Pulp guitarist Richard Hawley so utterly compelling. But I've narrowed it down to a short list, and competing for the top spots are the following: teenage anglophilia resulting in a lifelong dedication to the Smiths; a vaguely unhealthy predilection towards British films of the fifties and sixties; and perhaps, most likely, Hawley's beautiful voice and prodigious talent for creating spare, seductive pop songs. Hawley's velvety croon, somewhere between Roy Orbison and Ricky Nelson by way of Scott Walker, meanders through an album filled with echoey fables of lost love, tough good-byes and rolling fog. You can almost see Tom Courtenay watching Julie Christy leave him on the midnight train, or disillusioned teddy boys kicking a can outside of a suburban dance hall. Departing from the blazing crescendos of his recent guitar work on Pulp's "We Love Life", Hawley instead constrains his palate. Chimes, bells, and shuffling drums support a reverb-drenched vocabulary of staccato melodies, jangly dancehall lullabies, and steel guitar moans. Talk about exit music for a film, with their melancholy narratives and eerie atmospheres, Hawley's songs could just as easily be soundtracks to the films of David Lynch (think "Blue Velvet") or even Kenneth Anger. Hawley is more sincere than fellow Brit-Popers (like Blur and Oasis) who digress into their own Britishness. The songs on "Late Night Final" emit a sparklingly evocative Anglo sensibility mixed with obvious reverence for American music of the fifties and sixties, all the while conjuring up a completely original album worthy of re- igniting various and sundry unhealthy obsessions. [MC]" This is 6stars! Mur29 | Finland | 04/05/2006 (5 out of 5 stars) "I think it isn't possible to make better this kind of pop-record.
Brilliant melodies, fine guitars etc., warm voice." |
