First full band full length album.

1. Unexpected Error
2. I Fell In Love With A Moment In Time
3. The Battle Is Over (feat. Diana De Cabarrus)
4. Music Is My Enemy
5. The Evil Thoughts
6. There Ain't No Carrot/There Ain't No Stick
7. I Had A Friend In Sarah Vincent
8. The Cavalry Ain't Coming
9. Gentlemen On Crutches
10. Don't Be Afraid Of Love
11. Hate Is All Around
12. Timing Is Everything
Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences formed in late 2006 and have over recent months gained a fearsome live reputation as one of the most original and uncompromising underground acts in London and won admiration from the likes of BBC Radio 1’s Huw Stephens, Laura-Mary Carter of Blood Red Shoes and Dan Treacy of the Television Personalities. Debut single “The Bigger Bone” was the UK Student Radio Association’s track of the week and a student radio hit.

“We Are Not Other People” is a collection of deceptively catchy primal pop songs shot through with a vein of black comedy that reinforces rather than deflects the savage emotional honesty of Hawkins’ lyrics. Songs range from the pure call-and-response rush of Huw Stephens’ favourite “I Fell in Love With a Moment in Time” to the apocalyptic broken disco of “Unexpected Error” and from the sheer punk thrash of “There Ain’t No Carrot, There Ain’t No Stick” to the epic murder ballad “Sarah Vincent”, with lyrics taking in traumatised soldiers, love-struck alcoholics drinking themselves to death and an old man driven by loneliness and boredom to seek a hospital admission by throwing himself down a staircase.

Paul Hawkins maintains “It’s definitely a pop album, just pop done in a pretty twisted way. Some of the subject matter’s maybe a bit unusual but it’s hopefully done in an emotionally truthful way. I think with the kind of outsider characters I tend to write about it’s very easy to put them down as oddballs or weirdos and the challenge to me is to try and make the listener actually identify with the emotional reasoning going on in their minds”.

Jezus Factory Records’ Andrew Bennett added “I first stumbled across Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences supporting The Rebel.The singer was wearing pyjamas, the keyboardist had seven fingers, the bassist was comatose dribbling on the side of the stage and their was some older dude on drums. The vocals were relentless, and the songs were undeniable. I offered to release their records on the spot. This is important, beautiful and ugly music. Paul Hawkins could take on any lyricist on the planet”.

“Laden with Pure Charisma” – NME

“If indie music is plagued with soulless rats then Hawkins is the new pied piper” – Moderate Rock

“It seems to be customary to compare Hawkins to Nick Cave and Tom Waits. This does him a huge disservice; he’s a considerably more marginal and interesting figure than these decidedly mainstream oddballs” – Drunken Werewolf Magazine

“Rapidly becoming the greatest artist of 2008” – Bearded Magazine

“I haven’t been able to get Paul Hawkins out of my head for the last 4 days” – Huw Stephens, Radio 1