2020
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.
On his dense but meticulously rendered new album, the British folk singer uses grander pop arrangements to wade into the barbarism of modern life.
On this latest release, Richard Dawson writes stark, clear-eyed poetry to navigate the bleak peculiarities of modern Britain.
Returning from the early-medieval north to the 21st century, Richard Dawson has crafted another masterpiece
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.
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.
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