| Truelove's Gutter | ||||
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| Released | 21 September 2009 | |||
| Studio | Yellow Arch Studios, Sheffield | |||
| Genre | Alternative pop, chamber pop | |||
| Length | 51:05 | |||
| Label | Mute | |||
| Producer | Richard Hawley and Colin Elliot | |||
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Truelove's Gutter is the sixth studio album from musician Richard Hawley, released on 21 September 2009 in the UK and on 22 September 2009 in the US. The album title refers to an ancient street in Hawley's native Sheffield, now thought to be the location of present-day Castle Street, which was allegedly named after 18th-century innkeeper Thomas Truelove, who used to charge local people to dump their rubbish in the gutter in the street that then flowed down to the River Don.[1][2] Thematically, Truelove's Gutter is Hawley's darkest album to date. Hawley told the BBC that the album was inspired by particularly dark periods in his life and those of others.[3] The album features some uncommon instrumentation, such as the waterphone, megabass, and cristal baschet.[1]
The first single, "For Your Lover Give Some Time," was released as a three-track digital download on 10 August 2009. A second single, "Open Up Your Door", was released on 30 November 2009, also as a three-track digital download. "Remorse Code" was issued as the album's de facto third single on the EP False Lights from the Land on 7 June 2010.
- ^ a b Naylor, Tony (5 December 2009). "One last thing..." The Guardian. London, England. Retrieved 30 October 2012.
- ^ Leader, Robert Eadon (R.E.) (1875), "VIII: Streets, Shops, Wells and Markets", Reminiscences of Old Sheffield: Its Streets and Its People (out of print), retrieved 30 October 2012,
Reproduced on local historian Eric Youle's website – this out of copyright material has been transcribed by Eric Youle, who has provided the transcription on condition that any further copying and distribution of the transcription is allowed only for noncommercial purposes, and includes this statement in its entirety.
- ^ [1] Archived 6 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine