Lady's Bridge

by Richard Hawley

Lady's Bridge cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 20 August 2007
  • Label: Mute
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 48:35
  • Community rating: 3.91/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Continuing his loving, nostalgic tribute to his hometown of Sheffield, the former Pulp guitarist fully embraced sweeping, cinematic 1950s pop orchestration. The record is drenched in sweeping strings and his profound, resonant baritone, offering an incredibly lush and romantic vision of classic, mid-century British songwriting.

Genres

Descriptors: acoustic, crooning, orchestral, string arrangements, ballad, melodic, reverb-heavy, retro

Tracklist

  1. Valentine (4:27)
  2. Roll River Roll (5:10)
  3. Serious (3:26)
  4. Tonight the Streets Are Ours (3:42)
  5. Lady Solitude (5:32)
  6. Dark Road (3:58)
  7. The Sea Calls (5:54)
  8. Lady's Bridge (4:01)
  9. I'm Looking for Someone to Find Me (3:18)
  10. Our Darkness (4:07)
  11. The Sun Refused to Shine (4:56)

Credits

  • Elizabeth Garside - cello
  • Liz Hanks - cello
  • Dean Beresford - drums [premier]
  • Shez Sheridan - lyre [enchanted], guitar [tennessee high string], electric guitar, acoustic guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, 12-string electric guitar, lyre [enchanted], classical guitar [spanish], banjo, guitar [gitane], lap steel guitar, acoustic guitar, lyre [enchanted], guitar [tennessee high string], baritone guitar [solo], electric guitar [6 string], 12-string electric guitar, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lap steel guitar
  • Charlotte Miles - violin
  • Ellen Brookes - violin, viola
  • Kathleen Ord - violin
  • Lizz Lipscombe - violin

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