Coles Corner

Well written and sung but not a style I find inventive or interesting.

1. Yikes...hate it. 2. This is better. 3. Oof. No, please, not this 50s like pop. Yuck. 4. Damn, this is horrid. 5. Oh, god no...stop this, please. 6. Fuck! No. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 10 was particularly horrid, but really this was not at all something I'd listen to on my own. 2 "bored" stars

Often sounds dated, but not terrible.

I was not previously familiar with the artist or album. This is a chamber pop album. It's really well done. The vocals are excellent and the instrumentation augments the vocals wonderfully. I enjoyed this album a lot and would listen to this again for sure.

I am absolutely not lovesick/depressed enough to properly appreciate this album, lol. However, it's still a lovely listen - Richard's voice is silky and genuine, and the production/layering is exquisite. A perfect cozy album to listen to on a rainy day with a good book and hot beverage.

After I had finished listening to this album I thought it was a solid 3 nothing too exciting but I didn’t think it was anything offensive either. The more I’ve thought about it though the more I came to terms that this was just a super dry run of the mill album with nothing really to say.

At first listening to the intro song, I thought this was going to be amazing, but the interest fades as it goes on. At the end, I don’t think this is essential listening, personally I would give it a three, but the best albums of all time, I would give it a 2

"Just Like the Rain" and "(Wading Through) The Waters of My Time" are actually really very good; the rest of the album was not so much.

Mauvais de chez mauvais

c'est pas mauvais mais c’est pas non plus très bon. Pour un album dans ce style sortie en 2005 je comprend pas pourquoi il est dans la liste

Review TBC

What a really beautiful album. I have heard of Richard Hawley and his connection to Pulp but have never listened to one of his solo albums. What a treat it was. It just felt like it was from a different time and it was a perfect listen at the time, an autumnal evening with some candles flickering.

This was a surprise, one of the few albums on the list that I had never heard about. Initially the crooning vocal style put me off, but as the album went on I started to acclimate to it and ended up really enjoying it.

I enjoyed it.. thought I would not really care for it after the opener, but it grew on me. Maybe it’s just the time of year I heard it, but it seems like a great fall/winter album.

I think chamber pop is really boring, even taking my prejudices into account. This has to be one of the safest, most boring, non-threatening albums ever created. It feels like this album was made for the coffee shop. The music is played nicely but I was not impressed.

This wasn’t what I was expecting. Don’t know what I was expecting, but this wasn’t it. Quite the crooner. Sometimes it made me feel very much I had fallen into a David Lynch film. Not sure on my feelings about where this actually belongs. But I am glad I did hear it. 3 Boolean: Null

beautiful at times but just not massively interesting.

I didn't know this artist. Some good songs. Overall a good album.

Review - Immediately clocked this as britslop and wasn't looking forward to listening, but fucking hell it's actually good. Great croony voice, nice late night album. Chill while still having enough interesting touches to it. Wonder if this is who the Arctic Monkeys man has been trying to be in the lounge era. Score - 7/10 Need to listen? YES

Love his voice. Love this Album. THIS is why I love the 1001 list - I can find these new (to me) artists and the amazing music. Standouts: Hotel Room, Just Like The Sun, Coles Corner, Born Under a Bad Sign 5 / 5

Music to get you dancing like it’s 1952.

Had never heard of this artist before, but this album is really smooth. It's like a doo-wop, surfer rock, lounge record. The vocals are smooth and sultry, comforting. The music is elegant and gentle, constantly welcoming my ears to keep listening. Really enjoyed this one and I will revisit it again in the future.

This is the first 1001 albums choice that I had never heard of. It's awful. At it's best it's like Michael Buble except without the charm. At it's worst it's like a Leonard Cohen album if he didn't know how to write songs. Hotel Room might be one of the worst tracks I have ever heard. 1 star.

Low energy vocals

ja niet slecht ofzo maar dat is het ook wel

Easy middle of the road listening. I wish I could actually give it 2.5 stars instead of just 2.

Fine, but not my style 3/5

Modern day Johnny Cash, such a crooner but I kinda like it

F OFF

i actually really liked this? i saw most people gave it a 3, and maybe it objectively is that, but i really liked how it felt like a mix of genres was used to make soothing, mellow music. some songs felt jazzy, some felt western, and all of them kind of generally felt romantic. this album kind of also reminded me of this band i used to listen to called mustard service - cool stuff!

Kind of cheesy, but it’s the kind I like

Not really my thing but it has some great vocals and is overall very chill. I've been a fan of the ocean song for awhile now. Favorite track: The Ocean

9/10… chamber pop / sing-songwrt / *2005

Coles Corner sounds like the kind of music they play during the early bird special. It's tolerable, I suppose.

Not horrible, but not my cup of tea

Pretty decently solid Nashville country from the mid-2000s. A lot of 21st century pop-country is really grating to me, but this guy keeps it tasteful, with simple lyrics, lush arrangements, and a velvety smooth voice.

I surprisingly didn’t hate this! He had a good singing voice, and the songs were solid. Nothing super notable though

Say what you will, but the man knows what to do with his voice. The whole record keeps a vibe going with its gorgeous ballads and ties it all together with a beautiful and contemplative piano instrumental at the end. Even the cover art evokes it well: this is some peak nighttime listening! Standouts: Coles Corner • Just Like the Rain • The Ocean • Last Orders

This album is strongly harkening back to a bygone era of music. I think Marty Robbins might be a more apt comparison than Roy Orbison, but he's not making music of his own time for sure. One thing that let me down a bit about that was that he doesn't try to update it much. In The Ocean, he brings this rich, Britpop orchestral backing (made sense since he toured with Pulp) and it's stunning. Unfortunately, he never really does anything like that again.

Not for me

The Ocean was great and the other songs weren’t terrible, but I’m going to give it a 3 because I can’t see myself going out of my way to listen to this again

Bloody hell it Pat Boon

Felt strangely christmassy. Alright, but won't be rushing to listen to again.

Album : 30/1089 Songs known going in : 0/10 Cover Art : I like the colours Favourite song : Just like the rain Rating : 4/5 Notes : quite sweet I dont know what i thought I was going into but this is soothing and christmassy vibes. Love his voice in just like the rain. Really cosy, I want to listen to this on a train while it rains. Gives me goosebumps which is cool. Definitely a night album. Pretty soothing and sweet probs wouldnt put the whole album on on my own accord

Boring Vegas music

quite nice

not my thing at all sorry

Patrí medzi moje obľúbené albumy. Páči sa mi retro štýl spolu s hlasom.

8/10

I have not heard this before. I don’t think I’ve heard Richard Hawley before. Apparently he was in Pulp, who I remember liking, but also so was Jarvis Cocker, who I find to be incredibly dull and uninspired. Unfortunately Richard Hawley is following Jarvis in his solo career making incredibly dull and uninspired music. The bulk of this is late 60s/early 70s style crooning ballads with a few halfhearted uptempo numbers interspersed and one mopey country style ballad. There is a guitar part in Born Under A Bad Sign that goes on for a few bars that really caught my ear and the lap steel solo in Wading Through The Waters Of My Time is good, and then it ends on two nice atmospheric songs. The rest of the album comes off like day old white bread.

Very warm voice. A bit too slow overall for me though.

A supremely lovely and gorgeous album. The Ocean and the opening track are incredible. I could leave a few others.

Nagyon cozy, karácsonyi album. Lowkey gonna buy the vinyl...

Quite simply glorious. I've got into Hawley over the last few years and each time I listen it sounds better. Very moving music that sounds like it could have been produced decades earlier. Cue Americans moaning about British artists. It's a British book and in general British music is superior so bring it on. You invented jazz, and that is unforgivable.

No me ha gustado nada, y dudo que vaya a escuchar más álbumes de este artista.

4.5/5 this album really surprised me. Love his voice and love love so definitely will be added to the rotation.

Good stuff, would be better with a cooler weather and chiller vibe, but I still enjoyed some songs :)

Never heard of it, very damn good

low 4.0. Adorei o vocal.

Nice

A beautiful album for the wrong time. I wish I was listening to it when it was cold in wintry outside. Some upbeat stuff, some downbeat stuff, but really cool Bobby Darin type crooning stuff.

This was fine. I hummed along the entire time but then immediately forgot about its existence a few hours afterwards. By the next day, when I went to comment on it, I completely forgot that I had listened to it, so I relistened. And when it was done, I still kinda couldn't really remember much about what I heard. I think it was fine. Three stars.

Music so boring I actually forgot it was playing.

This felt like an album out of time. 2000s production values, 1950s tunes. I didn't like it. If I want to hear Elvis, I'll just listen to Elvis.

I should probably object to this on the basis of the Morissey-adjacency of several songs. I enjoyed it, though, and really loved Born Under A Bad Sign.

Some of this crooning was all right, but it soon got old, and boring.

3/5 - Entirely pleasant. Nothing particularly stood out, but it had good production, and I'd listen again.

Solid album. First song did not give a good impression then it grew on me.

A nice surprise!

Charming. Not an album or artist I had ever heard of. But I found it simple without being simplistic and moving without being sentimental. 4 stars secured by the fact he is from Sheffield (not e.g. LA).

Come at this as an Arctic Monkeys fan, and one who did not enjoy their pivot to lounge rock in their later albums so heavily influenced by Richard Hawley the Sheffield lad. I have been meaning to look him up, and found this album absolutely superb. Where Alex Turner makes this style sound like self indulgent shite through pretentious lyrics, Richard Hawley sounds like a geniune old school crooner, he can pull it off. He also clearly isn't so bothered about the vibe, this is varied from big strings on Coles Corner to cash esque country on The Waters of my Time. Who's going to shoe your pretty feet is a beauty. Full marks for this one.

Family Christmas party background music.

There’s underrated, then there’s this absolute gem of a record. Smoother than Nigel Havers dipped in caramel and wrapped in silk.

When the eponymous track Coles Corner started, I thought I was in for a world of pain, but slowly and surely this album grew on me. Easy listening, smooth vocals and something I'd play again on a lazy Wednesday evening

Boring! So much of the same.

Richard Sleepley

This is nice sounding music.

Def packed in its own syrup but all the tastier for it.

Interesting to hear an English guy taking on the decidedly American form of sparse, plaintive, western-tinged songs. He reminds me a lot of Mark Lanegan, both in his baritone voice and tales of woe — and sure enough, they collaborated on a song once. It’s easy to envision the latter singing on a track like “Tonight,” which sounds like it was written from an overlook above a city with twinkling lights. Elsewhere, Hawley sounds like Sinatra or Roy Orbison. Not that he lacks his own identity, as there’s plenty of room for others to roam in these wide-open, big-skied sonic landscapes.

I found this kinda dull, but that might be just because it came up in the rotation after the exuberance of Stevie Wonder.

Weiß nicht was die Leute in den Kommentaren haben. Fand das Album sehr chillig und entspannend, nicht einschläfernd

eigentlich ganz nett anzuhören, für 4 reichts aber knapp nicht

Fantastisch, super relaxend und angenehm zu hören

Decent easy listening soft pop. Notably weaker B side, but has a couple tracks that are good for relaxing to. Nice change of pace, but nothing overly noteworthy. Top tracks: Coles Corner, Darlin' Wait For Me, The Ocean

fourth album release by songwriter richard hawley. richard had been trying to make a name for himself with all the music he'd been composing, but his past albums only achieved modest success. this album here was recorded without a record label, in the high hopes that one would eventually like his work and give him a chance to make it big. thankfully it worked in his favor! coles corner itself refers to a little place in sheffield, where hawley says friends and lovers have met for more than a century. his fixation on the place gives the album a strong romantic and nostalgic theming. talk about putting the "soft" in soft rock music. this album sounds like a beautiful daydream. the way he sings reminds me a little bit of how elvis presley sings ballads. the kind of music you turn on when you're resting on a chair, letting your mind drift off into happy places. is it folk, is it country? i can't nail a description but it's very vintage-sounding... i didn't really know what to expect from this cd but it's a underrated spectacle in the world of british songwriter music.

Surprisingly chill retro style. Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett would not have sounded out of place singing on this album, though Hawley does a fine job. I’ll likely stick with the old crooners, but I definitely enjoyed the music. A little jazzy, a little bit country, a little bit pop. Not what I expected from a Britpop star. 3.5 stars

I've never heard of Richard Hawley before, but this album is fantastic! His voice is so nice.

Favorite Track: Hotel Room

Huh. Not what I was expecting. Kind of a cool idea, I guess, and not at all unpleasant.

Feels a little like a concept album, like he found one sound style that worked and pulled it out into 11 tracks. That said, I do find the style to be super well executed and done with a certain charm that would be hard to pull off sounding genuine, but he seems to have done just that. This album definitely has its time and place and I will happily come back to it when I want to indulge in nostalgia while listening to something new.

A couple days ago I had the Divine Comedy's Casanova and in my review I stated that I found myself thinking that this is going to be another just alright chamber pop album that was destined for a 3 or maybe even a 2 depending on how much it bored me. Something clicked with Casanova and I found myself really enjoying Neil Hannon's campiness and sleaziness and the production, which was beautifully arranged with just a dash of grit. Seems that I find myself in the exact same position with Coles Corner. The major difference is that Richard Hawley plays Coles Corner a lot more straight. There's no grit, campiness, or irony, but surprisingly, I am finding that I also really enjoy this album. I thought I enjoyed Casanova because of the sleazy and gritty character Neil Hannon put on, but this is just as good, if not better. Richard Hawley manages to embody the spirit of a bygone era without it feeling overdone, ironic, or too nostalgic. Also, it has to be mentioned that the arrangements on Coles Corner are beautifully played and his singing is phenomenal.

Ok - a lot of sameness. I like the concept and it was ok to listen to, but kept wanting a bit more.

Either the instrumentals or the vocals needed to be a lot more passionate to elevate this album from competently made but ultimately boring to something great. Also, I was floored the see this was made in 2005. You could have subtracted several decades and I would not have bat an eye.

Sonic ambien. I can't deny that this album objectively is well made, but I wish everyone involved had applied their talents toward something less boring. "Born Under a Bad Sign" really rubs this in by reminding you about the existence of better music that you could be listening to instead.

If this album had come out 50 years earlier I’d probably have a kinder review. But everything that was done on this album has been done better decades previously.

This is a dude crooning over arranged melodies - he actually has a really great voice and the tunes are v enjoyable, but this is not something I'd seek out

Music to put on if you want your grandparents to think you're cool. Boring

3/10

Interesting listen

It's Nick Cave comin' at you from Sad Rock FM (complimentary)