Richard Hawley’s last album, Standing At The Sky’s Edge, was something of a departure for the Sheffield singer. Rockier, and with a psychedelic edge, it suggested that the former Longpig may have 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, whereas Tuesday PM moves with the stately grace of a Nick Cave ballad.
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