Former Pulp guitarist Richard Hawley has been floating solo for over a decade following Pulp’s pulverization (as recording artists anyway).  Hawley, the son of a steel worker, was raised in Sheffield, England, and grew up listening to the likes of Elvis (Presley), (Roy) Orbison, Scott Walker and Lee Hazelwood.  He learned guitar at an early age and became a gunslinger in Pulp, Longpigs, and various studio sessions before breaking out his first solo album in 2001.  Hawley’s sophomore album, Late Night Final, set the mode for his next 4-5 albums with Hawley’s baritone combining with lush life string arrangements.  In 2005 he released one of our favorite albums of all-time, Coles Corner (a hangout in Sheffield), with its cinematic romanticisms delivered in his crooner’s lilt.  This was followed by the similarly fantastic and atmospheric Lady’s Bridge and Truelove’s Gutter.  But last year Hawley moved into more of a late-’60s psychedelia motif with his more aggressive, critically-acclaimed, Mercury Prize-nominated album, Standing at the Sky’s Edge.  Buried within the album, however, was the song Don’t Stare At The Sun which could have compatibly fit within his prior three albums.  Hawley has just released his official video for the beautifully moving song, which you can check out below.  We’ll have more about the prodigiously-talented Hawley another time.  In the meantime, don’t stare at the sun.  And what the heck, after Hawley’s video check out the nostalgia of (Hawley-influencing) Lee Hazelwood’s song, For One Moment.  Cloudy brain indeed.  It’s Monday.