Excuse the ignorance, but exactly who is Richard Hawley? I vaguely recognise the name and he’s signed to a very big major label, but honestly I can’t quite put a face to the name, or a well known 90s band for that matter.
Need to look this one up (consults internet …) oh right, he was in Pulp for a while, plus some other bands (yes, don’t forget the Longpigs! – Ed), so you’d expect him to know what he’s doing.
‘Alone’ isn’t quite floating the boat though, in a Radio 2 attempting edginess sort of way.
The other track that shares sleeve artwork with ‘Alone’ is an actually twice as good song called ‘Off My Mind’, which sounds as if Hawley was standing up when he recorded it, unlike its laid-back-in-the-wrong-sort-of-way A side.