Standing At the Sky's Edge
Richard Hawley has described his seventh album as his "angry record." Musically, the formula he's refined for more than a decade has been blown up and tripped out with loud guitars and nods to mid-1990s bong-addled British psych-rock.
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Cave dwellers! One-time Pulp and Longpigs guitarist Richard Hawley found solo success in the mid-noughties by writing melodic baroque pop that perfectly suited his rich baritone voice. He took a darker turn on 2009's Truelove's Gutter, but it's still fair to say that his decision to venture down a musical highway firmly marked 'psychedelic rock' is a brave one.
Few artists this year are likely to take the artistic leap that Richard Hawley does with his latest album.
After the spacious soundscapes of 2009’s ‘Truelove’s Gutter’, the Sheffield-drenched psychedelia found here may surprise but, thirty years from now, crate diggers of the world will seize upon
Grief imbues Richard Hawley's latest album, a welcome, heady flail from his more composed recent work, writes<strong> Kitty Empire</strong>
<p><strong>Alexis Petridis</strong>: Richard Hawley does something of a stylistic about-face without sacrificing any of his unique appeal</p>
The classy crooner puts his foot down and turns the volume up. CD review by Bruce Dessau