During his tenure with the English punk rock group The Stranglers, Hugh Cornwell helped usher in a new style of music that would forever change the musical landscape. As the British punk scene began to decline into the end of the 1970s, he released his first album apart from The Stranglers in 1979, titled Nosferatu, with Captain Beefheart's Magic Band drummer Robert Williams. Though he remained the front man of The Stranglers until 1990, Cornwell slowly shifted his efforts to his solo songwriting and released his debut solo effort Wolf, in 1983. With a post punk sound that has proven to be a bit mellower than his work with The Stranglers, he has proven himself as an astute songwriter who's more than capable of writing pensive songs on his own, without the aid of the other members in his erstwhile band.
