Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge
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Artist: Richard HawleyEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-10-02
Music Label: Mute U.S.
Soundtracks:
- Valentine
- Roll River Roll
- Serious
- Tonight the Streets are Ours
- Lady Solitude
- Dark Road
- The Sea Calls
- Lady's Bridge
- I'm Looking for Someone to Find Me
- Our Darkness
- The Sun Refused to Shine
Free Music Notes for Lady's Bridge
Free Music Review: Another Equisite Album
Hit: 5 Stars
Richard Hawley did it again with another lush, timeless album filled with peerless songwriting, masterful production and subtly brilliant arrangements.
Most notable on the first listen is the single, 'Serious,' which sounds like something that Ricky Nelson might have wished that he'd done in his glory days, if he'd had Roy Orbison producing him. The rest of the album is less overtly 'rocking' but does not disappoint.
Anyone who liked Hawley's previous release, 'Cole's Corner,' will be very happy with this new album and should buy it straight away.
Lady's Bridge Poster
The sleeve insert that comes with Richard Hawley's latest CD contains a large photo of a graffiti-covered fence, with the words "macho music is stupid" prominently displayed in plain black paint. It's a fitting slogan for Hawley, who has built a first-rate solo career out of tender rockabilly and velvety ballads that have nothing to do with pointless hipster bravado. As with his last record, the fantastic Coles Corner, the mood on Lady's Bridge is often lullaby quiet, with songs about love and loss, the hunger for understanding, and yet also a loner's desire for escape and isolation. But even though Hawley's nocturnes can be tremendously sad, they're never sappy or self-consciously cloying; the sweeping confidence of his work here is so satisfying, it's more natural to feel exhilarated than depressed. The first single, "Tonight the Streets are Ours" opens with a beautiful blast of strings, then rolls into a transcendent bridge celebrating the electric and scary intensity of connection. Doo-wop vocals elevate "I'm Looking for Someone to Find Me" into something joyous, which is a trick, considering the song's main refrain is "I got no one to love." Wonder is everywhere for Hawley, even when--especially when--he has to go it alone. "The Sea Calls" is an ode to the ocean, but it's also about a state of mind--the thrilling uncertainty that comes with loss, resignation, and the power of being on one's own. It's sturdy stuff made from blood and bones, with the kind of rich tonal authority one normally associates with names like Elvis, Orbison, and Cash. Buy it, and thank me later. --Matthew Cooke2007 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'. Mute. 2007
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