release date: Oct. 15, 2001
format: cd
[album rate: 3,5 / 5] [3,34]
producer: Richard Hawley, Alan Smyth, Colin Elliot
label: V2 Records - nationality: England, UK
Track highligts: 1. "Something Is....!" (4 / 5) - 2. "Baby, You're My Light" - 4. "The Nights Are Cold" (4 / 5) - 10. "Long Black Train" - 11. "The Light at the End of the Tunnel (Was a Train Coming the Other Way)"
Solo album debut release by Richard Hawley (originally released on Setanta records) after leaving the britpop band Longpigs and after playing with Pulp. The music is diverse from what he helped producing with Longpigs, a band who played a combo of dreampop and britpop. Here, Hawley is playing AND singing (which is new) chamber pop, and it really sounds nice, fine, and very cool. Music critics loved the release but the album failed to sell any great number of albums. Compared to his later efforts, this first attempt only lacks the really great songs but the tone, the style, and the coolness is ever-present even on his first album.
[ allmusic.com 4 / 5 stars ]
