Richard Hawley is pretty much the modern embodiment of classic cool. He takes all the finest elements of the gothic godfathers like Leonard Cohen, Scott Walker and Lee Hazlewood and blends them up into something all his own. He is a brilliant orchestrator, multi-instrumentalist and lyricist, and shit, he played with Jarvis.
So anyway, here's a track called "For Your Lover, Give Some Time" off his new record "Truelove's Gutter" out on Mute, one of my all time favorite labels, and home to one Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds. The album drops 9/22 and you better bet your life I'm gonna pick it up! I really dig this track. It's sparse, i.e. sans percussion, with beautiful harp lines and typically poetic Hawley lyrics. I love how magnificently dreary his songs are--not in a depressing manner, but rather like sitting alone in an English countryside pub observing the pissing rain pounding the windows through the rim of your snifter of brandy, while taking assertive puffs from a pipe stuffed with cherry Cavendish and contemplating only life's deepest quandaries...something like that.
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