Nothing Important
Stumbling from music-hall tune-smithery to spidery swathes of noise-colour, Richard Dawson hints at a time before today’s over-preened and manufactured music world.
Armed with a fitfully expressive tenor voice and a crudely amplified nylon-string acoustic guitar, Newcastle singer-songwriter Richard Dawson often deals with death or disaster in his music. On his third album, Nothing Important, the subject matter feels personal, often uncomfortably so.
An eclectic set of styles, experiments and curiosities from the North Eastern imagination. Darkness and delight, fantasy and nightmare. Enter here...
If British freak folk discovery Richard Dawson seemed rather inscrutable on his debut album, 2012's The Magic Bridge, he's delivered a far bigger head-scratcher with his second full-length release, 2014's Nothing Important.
The songwriter takes a deconstructivist approach to English folk with a record that unsettles and subverts, writes <strong>Michael Hann</strong>