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Ex-builder Danny Coughlan takes his sobriquet from the Garnet Mimms hit. He claims to be attracted to the “adult” perspective of ‘60s love songs – the understanding that pain, though brutal, is temporary, and sometimes it’s throwaway tunes that best capture the heartache. There is much of Roy Orbison and…

Although there’s been a shortage of songs tackling the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the debut album from Danny Coughlan, alias Crybaby, contains a cracker. “Veils” is a elegy for the entire sorry escapade, evoking not just sympathy for the individual soldier but something of the sweep of history when…

10/10 With all the genres and sub genres out there right now, pretty much every style of music you can think of is covered, except that is, the crooner, and I love a good crooner! Sure, Richard Hawley has a go, and he’s not bad, but he’s no Roy Orbison…

The name alone suggests he’s not exactly bringing the LOLs, but these indie strums contain some great Morrissey-­‐esque kitchen sink drama.

‘I Cherish The Heartbreak More Than The Love That I Lost’ – Crybaby’s Danny Coughlan may not be the most succinct song-namer but boy does her know how to weave a graceful tale of woe. Recalling Richard Hawley and Roy Orbison, his self titled album, released on 9th April by…

This week sees the release of Crybaby’s self-titled debut album, and it’s one of those records that is being talked about in all the right places. The London music scene cognoscenti, and trusted tastemakers are already referencing Crybaby, (real name Danny Coughlan) and he’s being compared to Scott Walker, Richard…

Cry Baby de Crybaby (Helium Records/ Coop). Les quinze premières secondes du premier album de Cry Baby en disent long – le titre d’abord, “I Cherish The Heartbreak More Than The Love That I Lost” (“Je suis plus attaché au coeur brisé qu’à mon amour perdu”) – et annoncent la…

You can mark out the emotional territory occupied by Crybaby by listening to the song from which Danny Coughlan took the name for this terrific album. Cry Baby by Garnet Mimms and the Enchanters is one of those overwrought early-60s ballads in which romantic disappointment is a world unto itself,…

Richard Hawley meets The Jesus & Mary Chain; beautiful, sad songs ensue. Bristol’s Danny “Crybaby” Coughlan grew up in a house where listening to Jimmy Savile’s Old Record Club each and every Sunday was The Law. Consequently, echoes of The Beach Boys, Phil Spector and Elvis, and their descendents Morrissey,…

Crybaby is Danny Coughlan, an entirely appropriate pseudonym for this creator of beautifully miserable tunes. His debut track, I Cherish The Heartbreak More Than The Love That I Lost, is out on March 19th on Helium Records. It’s a morose trip through early rock ‘n’ roll references, all the while…

He knows it’s over, still he clings – Danny Coughlan doesn’t know where else he can go, except deep into widescreen melancholy Hometown: Bristol. The lineup: Danny Coughlan (vocals, guitar). The background: Danny Coughlan as Crybaby is an astonishingly fully formed version of the artist he obviously set out to…