Yorkshire Pride: Sheffielder Richard Hawley’s album Coles Corner has been nominated for the Mercury Prize, but his fellow steelers Arctic Monkeys are the bookies’ favourite
I suppose you could accuse me of jumping on the Mercury bandwagon. Although the ex-Pulp man’s croonings had floated onto my radar before his latest album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize, I did take the opportunity of the nomination to give it a proper listen. For the uninitiated, Coles Corner is a richly orchestrated smoky-lounge bar album of wistful ballads that recalls Pulp’s This is Hardcore more than their more commercially successful material. It’s unashamedly retro, and unashamedly Americana.
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