However, even by his standards, Coles Corner is really something special.  Full text...

It's achingly beautiful, disarmingly intimate, simply the best-kept secret in popular music today.   Full text...

His third album follows the template of its predecessors: romance reels at its heart, nostalgia aches in the crevices, lovers get "lost in the gloom" and lonely fellas haunt the streets hoping to meet "a girl with a flower in her hair".  Full text...

"Coles Corner", named after a legendary meeting place in his hometown, is a lush, gloriously anachronistic affair - not just a love letter to a happier, simpler time but a grand act of wish fulfilment.  Full text...

The lyrics are strong enough to make the distinction for those who listen, and that's certainly enough for now, but apart from the title track itself - which really is a cracker - there isn't anything in this album we didn't hear in the first two.  Full text...

Richard Hawley's music is steeped in perspective.  Full text...

Richard Hawley's latest record may not be your cup of arsenic - it doesn't kick or scream or attack kittens with knitting needles, but lovely it truly is.  Full text...

But although Coles Corner is an accomplished piece of work, its subtleties may struggle in a pop scene dominated by the broad, anthemic strokes of Coldplay and their imitators.  Full text...