Richard Hawley
In This City They Call You Love
BMG (release date: 31 May)
9/10
Sublime songcraft from Sheffield’s laureate of the lonesome
Inspired by a random remark he heard a visitor to his home city of Sheffield make, is one of Richard Hawley’s finest albums to date – and that’s saying something. The quality of his songcraft has been both remarkable and remarkably constant across the past 23 years of his post-Longpigs solo career. If you imagine a jukebox in a 60s cafe with a row of Norton motorcycles parked outside, you’ll have an idea of Hawley’s musical touchstones
