Known mostly for his work as the guitarist in Pulp and Longpigs as well as recordings with Robbie Williams, Beth Orton, and A Girl Called Eddy, Sheffield, UK-based singer/songwriter Richard Hawley delivers another solo album.Coles Corner -- his first for Mute and the follow-up to Late Night Final (2001) and Lowedges (2003) -- is a beautiful album, filled with nostalgia, emotion and romance. The album's orchestral splendor sits alongside earthy rock & roll with songs that are by turns intimate and soaring....   [ read more ]

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2007 album from the critically acclaimed British singer/songwriter, his fifth solo set overall. Before he began his solo career, Hawley was a member of Longpigs and Pulp, amongst others. The album, an elegiac ode to Hawley's native Sheffield, England, follows up 2005's stately Mercury Prize nominee Coles Corner. 11 tracks including the single 'Tonight The Streets Are Ours'.

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The Longpigs' debut album The Sun Is Often Out is an ambitious, darkly romantic album that owes quite a bit to the modernized anthem-rock of Radiohead. Although the band doesn't quite have Radiohead's talent for making the bombastic seem utterly personal, there are several moments of brilliance on the album -- particularly the singles "Far," "She Said" and "On and On" -- suggesting that their appealingly neo-gothic sonic textures will develop into something distinctive on their second album....   [ read more ]

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