Debut full length for singer/songwriter who's worked with Longpigs & Pulp, the followup to the critically acclaimed self-titled mini album. Q magazine gave it 4 stars & said, 'His voice is a deep magnificent thing, rich & deep, like Ian McCulloch doing a sad Roy Orbison, and the 11 songs on Late Night Final are slow, studied and methodical, full of grace and guitar-plucked wonder. Even the happy songs sound sad, but romantically so. This isn't a record to prompt tears but goosebumps'. The Guardian UK said, 'This is music to rummage through charity shops to, and Hawley's own heart is in the easy-listening vinyl you'd find there. No Way Home is shuffling country as played by Dean Martin, and Lonely Night takes its desolate atmosphere from Elvis's Blue Moon, but for the most part Hawley models his deep, mellifluous voice on Frank Sinatra and builds elegant waltzes from tearful melodies and subtle brush drums'. 2001
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