Richard Hawley - Tonight the Streets are Ours

by Anthony Strutt

published: 27 / 8 / 2007

Richard Hawley - Tonight the Streets are Ours

Label: Mute Records
Format: CDS

intro

Lush new single from Sheffield-based crooner Richard Hawley

This is the first single from Sheffield-based singer-songwriter Richard Hawley’s new album, ‘Lady's Bridge’. Richard sings in such an old fashioned way and a voice that is so cigarette stained in style that the late Lee Hazelwood would be proud of it. ‘Tonight the Streets are Ours’ is immaculately delivered with lush-sounding instrumentation and a female singer who sounds like the mermaid girl from ‘Stingray’. The B side is ‘Vickers Road’ which has production so lush that it might have been the Walker Brothers, while Hawley’s vocal is reminiscent of Scott Walker himself.

Track Listing:-

1 Tonight The Streets Are Ours
2 Vickers Road

Band Links:-

http://www.richardhawley.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/RichardHawleyOfficial
https://twitter.com/RichardHawley
http://richardhawley.tumblr.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/RichardHawleyMusic
https://plus.google.com/+RichardHawleyMusic

Label Links:-

http://mute.com/
https://www.facebook.com/muterecords
https://twitter.com/MuteUK
https://www.youtube.com/user/themutechannel

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