Blog: State Magazine

You find great comfort in the music of Richard Hawley . The lush arrangements; the sad and unapologetically soul-baring words; and the blanket of warmth that is the Sheffield crooner's enriched velvet vocal tones - tones, which seem to soothe the soul. Hawley's perennial subjects may be of the bleakness of love and loss, but you can't help but be drawn in by of the promises of rich romance. So remains the case on his sixth album where little has changed but hope. Like his previous three outings Sheffield again provides an album title and a rich [...]