2020

AlbumOct 11 / 201910 songs, 57m 53s
Art Rock Singer-Songwriter
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2020 is the sixth solo album from Richard Dawson, the black-humoured bard of Newcastle. The album is an utterly contemporary state-of-the-nation study that uncovers a tumultuous and bleak time. Here is an island country in a state of flux; a society on the edge of mental meltdown.

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7.8 / 10

On his dense but meticulously rendered new album, the British folk singer uses grander pop arrangements to wade into the barbarism of modern life.

9 / 10

On this latest release, Richard Dawson writes stark, clear-eyed poetry to navigate the bleak peculiarities of modern Britain.

It's a hard time to be happy, and Richard Dawson knows it.

Returning from the early-medieval north to the 21st century, Richard Dawson has crafted another masterpiece

8.5 / 10

England’s finest troubadour Richard Dawson returns here with a sonic kaleidoscope that glimpses the puzzle pieces of the UK in its current state and recounts Dawson’s frustrations, pain, and joy in a consistently novel, affecting, and inventive way.

9 / 10

Where Richard Dawson's 2017 folk LP Peasant was based in 6th century Britain, his latest 2020 is set somewhere much more graspable – our worrying near future.

8 / 10

Richard Dawson, the socially engaged musician from the northeast of England, is a documenter of people.

Dawson adds pop-facing elements to folk on this brilliant album, full of stories of a benighted Britain

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9 / 10