Late Night Final

Product 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

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Late Night Final

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Late Night Final Richard Hawley Manufacturer: Setanta ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Chamber Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Coles Corner ASIN: B00005Q3ZG Release Date: 2006-04-04

Tracks:

1. Something Is....!
2. Baby, You're My Light
3. Love of My Life
4. Nights Are Cold
5. Can You Hear the Rain, Love?
6. Lonely Night
7. Precious Sight
8. No Way Home
9. Cry a Tear for the Man in the Moon
10. Long Black Train
11. Light at the End of the Tunnel (Was a Train Coming the Other Way)

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

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Late Night Final ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CR78T2 Release Date: 2006-04-04

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, 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. Includes the single, 'Baby You're My Light'. V2.

Average customer rating: torch songs done right. This is 6stars! Unknown Pleasure Sentimental Longing. Teardrops and Heartache. Beautiful A quiet and affecting work

Late Night Final Richard Hawley Manufacturer: Bar/None Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Chamber Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Singer Songwriters | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Coles Corner Richard Hawley A Girl Called Eddy Richard Hawley Z ASIN: B00005UF3K Release Date: 2002-01-22

Tracks:

1. Something Is...!
2. Baby, You're My Light
3. Love Of My Life
4. The Nights Are Cold
5. Can You Hear The Rain, Love?
6. Lonely Night
7. Precious Sight
8. No Way Home
9. Cry A Tear For The Man In The Moon
10. Long Black Train
11. The Light At The End Of The Tunnel (Was A Train Coming The Other Way)

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

Customer Reviews:

torch songs done right........2007-02-11

this is pop music with elegance. mr hawley has a fantastic voice that infuses each song he sings with a deep feeling of warmth. this was the 1st of his recordings that i heard, and i immediately bought the others, which are each of them equally enthralling. may this man long make music.

This is 6stars!.......2006-04-05

I think it isn't possible to make better this kind of pop-record.
Brilliant melodies, fine guitars etc., warm voice.

Unknown Pleasure.......2004-04-20

Richard Hawley has spent good time jamming with Pulp and The Longpigs over the years. His contribution to Pulp is probably most notable on the "Live in Finsbury Park" video. Since The Longpigs have disbanded, Hawley has found a lot of free time on his hands. When thinking of his own solo work he has gone far away from Pulp and has traveled to Twin Peaks. David Lynch is probably knocking on Hawley's door right now to ask him to do a soundtrack for his next film. Not only is the music both backwards and forward looking, but the album art offers scenes of snack bars, townies milling about, and discount sales from hell. Hawley recasts himself as the man in black. Late Night Final sounds like something to love, or make love to. It's the best album I have heard in a while.

The first song "Something is..." sounds like a road song. It throws you into this private world of weariness and leaving home. There is a lot of openness and tenderness in Hawley's voice. There's an innocence and lightness there. The music is the furthest thing away from the clever and contrived. The single "Baby, You're My Light" sounds like the Everly Brothers forming a supergroup with Roy Orbison, the latter which Hawley would have to draw the most comparisons to. Hawley's voice is his own though. Love songs never seemed so plain and simple. Most of the songs are driven with voice and guitar. The lack of percussion is not missed. This is hardly party music. It is music to be listened to alone with the lights low.

Hawley is a great storyteller. He gives Sheffield his hometown a Lynchian treatment. He sings so many heartbreaking songs like "Love Of My Live" without irony and with true feeling. In no way are these tunes sentimental. It's just like capturing the true feelings of old records. Good songs are good songs. The sound of Top of The Pops this isn't, but at least this will connect you to your dreams. If the visual world is all there is, why live without dreams? When you get to the fourth song "The Nights Are Cold" you can start seeing this album as postcards in a book from some other age trapped in our present. I think of good friends of the past and distant memories that have passed by in the night.

Many British musicians are obsessed with the tragic Hank Williams and Old Country music. This is evident in much of Hawley's work, even with the guitar parts he plays on Pulp's "Glory Days." Towards the middle of this record you think that you can be comfortable with Hawley interpretations of Retro-futurism, but when he offers the song "Can You Hear The Rain, Love?" he sends the listener over cliffs in ecstasy of sound, and with crescendos of beauty, with so little sound. No less than just one of the greatest songs ever. "Lonely Night" focuses more on his interest in folk music and hymns. I soon notice that there is a lot about loneliness, nights, and emptiness, and it's opposite, love and compassion. It's a lovely battle. Hawley has a passion and a good ear. It is a wicked mix.

On "No Way Home" Hawley dramatizes Sheffield and realizes that he doesn't fit in. He looking at his past life in a glass bubble. The strangest things have become the most familiar. He promises that "he's never coming back." When you think that all is spent, Hawley reaches for a great blues moment with the song "Cry A Tear For The Man In The Moon." Another really sad song. Maybe he is saying that love is the only escape from this miserable life? There is a Christmas vibe on some of these songs. Or is it nursery rhymes? "Long Black Train" sounds like one of those song we sang as kids. So many musicians try so hard to good and original with so many tricks and technology. Hawley shows us how to be interesting and tender by his evocative songs. I would like to shake his hand.

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Sentimental Longing. Teardrops and Heartache. Beautiful.......2003-06-14

A review from othermusic.com

I 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]

A quiet and affecting work.......2003-06-09

This album will not overpower you, but slowly work it's way into your mind. Quietly powerful and moving, Hawley's music seems out of time-not particular to any era. This is not to say that it is bland, but refreshing timeless. His voice has a haunting clarity evoking world weariness reminscent of Nick Drake. Highlights include "The Long Black Train", and "Have you seen the Rain, my love?" As I mentioned in the beginning, neither of these tracks will make a deep impression on you the first time you listen to them, but linger on in your head and you will find yourself coming back to the tracks time and time again.

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