After an artist puts out a popular album, part of you wants every subsequent album to be the same, just dressed a little differently. Well, Hawksley Workman’s new venture Lover/Fighter is not The Delicious Wolves dressed in sheep’s clothing. It’s still Hawksley, though a little more linear, a little more focused. This album isn’t as instantantly captivating as Wolves, but it is one of those albums you like more each time you hear it. The music is a little slower: the perfect setting for Workman’s lyrical genius to shine. He merges words and music in a way that conveys raw emotion so precisely that it literally fills you with song.



Delicious wolves definitely sparked my appetite for Hawksley Workman, sometime his lyrics just pop in my head (it's been fun destroying our bodies). Anyway songs that (don't dive shallow in deep dark waters) I particularly like are addicted, smoke baby and no reason to cry your eyes out. I also think the review above is right, the more you listen the more you like it.