Critic Reviews
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Stylus Magazine
This is a quietly pulsing release, alive with simple pleasures and celebrating events like hanging out and running into people you know.
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Trouser Press
The propensities for treacle and brimstone are cut by the realism of his portraits and the certitude in his voice. A Nick Drake-like wonder here, it is sonorous, even-keeled and assured.
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All Music Guide
Cole's Corner is glorious, magical, and utterly lovely in its vision, articulation, and execution.
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Pitchfork
Coles Corner is unapologetically retro to the max but it works.
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Dot Music
A quietly timeless triumph.
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Uncut
Hawley resurrects ghosts of music past and breathes new, poignant life into their forms. [Oct 2005, p.110]
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Billboard
Throughout, he manages to dip into old-school doo-wop sounds, grand orchestral ballads and Johnny Cash-inspired country anthems, not at the same time, but almost within their own little worlds.
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Paste Magazine
Hawley's empathic delivery reveals the indelible stamp these relationships leave on his protagonists' hearts. [Dec 2005, p.126]
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Mojo
A glorious melange of love, loss, regret, homesickness and romance. [Sep 2005, p.86]
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musicOMH.com
An album of gorgeous, lush songs.
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PopMatters
It's achingly beautiful, disarmingly intimate, simply the best-kept secret in popular music today.
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Q Magazine
Work every bit as lush as that which recently propelled Rufus Wainwright to stardom. [Sep 2005, p.119]
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The Guardian
If there is a difference it's in the richness of the emotions and textures.
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Under The Radar
Stylistically patchy but a sincere and winning catalog of his songwriting and vocal repertoire. [#10, p.106]
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Playlouder
If there's a snag it's not that the album exactly dips - it's just there's a lack of variation of pace, meaning it can be difficult to consume in its entirety at just one sitting. But, with a little patience, it comes alive.
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New Musical Express
His best yet. [3 Sep 2005, p.74]
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