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 This record left our Mr Productino feeling happy.
Richard Hawley the Sheffield crooner is here with his new album Lady's Bridge on mute. Lie back, Kick back and get transported through to a time of buttered scones and kindly smiles. (think Nick Berry from Heart beat). With a voice like velvet and the backing of a full orchestra we are treated to a bevy of cultured tunes that would get your granny dancing and your parents smooching. Its got the Walker Brothers stamp all over it . Rather than breaking boundaries, its more re-visiting them and doing a bit of regeneration, building a fountain where the cracked deliberated chimney once stood.. a few flowers here and there. An all round family pleaser... a PG rated beechams soother. Comes with bonus 30 DVD.
What the label says:
CD Album
1. Valentine
2. Roll River Roll
3. Serious
4. Tonight The Streets Are Ours
5. Lady Solitude
6. Dark Road
7. The Sea Calls
8. Lady's bridge
9. I'm Looking For Someone To Find Me
10. Our Darkness
11. The Sun Refused To Shine
Richard Hawley will release his highly anticipated new album Lady’s Bridge on 20th August on Mute with the usual formats plus deluxe editions. Lady's Bridge, his second album on Mute, is Richards’s strongest and most accessible album to date and follows the gold-awarded and Mercury Music Prize nominated Coles Corner.
Lady’s Bridge is filled with enough classics to last you a lifetime. Great music doesn’t need hype, it makes its own friends. And Lady’s Bridge will find plenty. As they did in Coles Corner, ghosts haunt Lady’s Bridge – the dying embers of past romances in Valentine, the 16-piece string orchestral lush opener, there are the victims of the Great Sheffield Flood remembered in Roll River Roll and the glorious The Sun Refused To Shine, the lonesome wanderlust of The Sea Calls and Dark Road. There is tenderness (the lovely Our Darkness which finds our hero returning to the sanctuary of home) and grit too, the first single – Tonight The Streets Are Ours is quite possibly the most beautiful song about the brutality of the British governments Anti-social behaviour policy you are ever likely to hear.
The album’s title Lady’s Bridge is a Sheffield landmark and the oldest bridge to cross the river Don. “I used to walk across it nearly every day, it was a gateway from the poor bit of town to the rich bit” - Richard Hawley. The album was recorded at Yellow Arch Studio in Neepsend, Sheffield in the dilapidated building that Hawley had helped out with the restoration of almost four years ago. Yellow Arch gives Hawley what he calls “that Sun Studio red light factor” and the pressure of turning up with the bones of an idea and leaving with a masterpiece.
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