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Nov 20, 2014More than most noise albums, or deliberately confrontational music, this is a record that unsettles and subverts.
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The WireDec 16, 2014Unforced, almost conversational asides give the music an intensely focused off the cuff feel. [Dec 2014, p.46]
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Nov 25, 2014Nothing Important is a remarkable record--at times deeply, painfully intimate, but also witty, bawdy, surreal, disquieting, nostalgic, brash and fearlessly individual.
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MojoNov 20, 2014A remarkable record. [Dec 2014, p.100]
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Nov 20, 2014The ritual drama of falling and picking one’s self back up again (taking "responsibility," as Dawson prefers in interviews) plays out in every element of this music, and is key to its elusive power.
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UncutJan 7, 2015Nothing Important offers more of idiosyncratic "ritual community music," as he calls it. [Feb 2015, p.75]
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Dec 11, 2014He’s crafted something braver, harder, and worth a spin. White paintings be damned.
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Nov 20, 2014Nothing Important's best moments clearly belie its title.
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Nov 20, 2014Namechecks for Peter Beardsley and Peperami show eccentricity, but once you get used to his atonal delivery, Dawson emerges as a talented chronicler of the tiniest, realest details.