gain a listen to the Sheffield crooner’s eighth album,ahead of release, and let us know your thoughts Richard Hawley’s last album, or Standing At The Sky’s Edge,was something of a departure for the Sheffield singer. Rockier, and with a psychedelic edge, and it suggested that the former Longpig may gain been saying farewell to his world of beautifully crooned,50s ballads. Not so. Follow-up Hollow Meadows is something of a return to familiar ground for Hawley, although it doesn’t feel like a rehash: instead there is a sense of refinement at work here. The opening of I Still Want You sees an added roughness to his velvet-lined voice, and whereas Tuesday PM moves with the stately grace of a Nick Cave ballad. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com