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- Summary: The sixth full-length release for the British singer-songwriter was recorded by Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs' Sam Grant.
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- Record Label: Weird World
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 13 out of 15
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Mixed: 2 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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Oct 14, 2019This is possibly Dawson’s best work. Yes, it’s tough-going – you’ve probably realised he REALLY doesn’t dig this country of ours right now – but the blend of smarts, art and heart is more than enough to demand your ears on repeat.
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Oct 10, 2019Capping off a decade where he has announced and solidified himself as possibly the country’s finest songwriter, Richard Dawson has produced another record of incredible melodic talent, compositional nouse and gloriously empathic writing.
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Oct 11, 2019Each of the songs here are Palme d’Or-worthy Loachian masterpieces, full of quiet tenacity on an island slowly turning sour. Playing almost every instrument, Dawson has scaled up from folk and blues to bigger, pop-facing arrangements with some of his heartiest tunes yet.
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Oct 10, 2019It would be a stretch to say that this album is easy going, but it’s probably the most accessible of his records. It’s exciting to find such an artist trying out more populist forms.
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Oct 17, 2019This brand of tell-all genreless rock may seem impenetrable at first, but a few listens is all it takes before you’ll be hooked by Richard Dawson’s paranoia, honesty and poetry.
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The WireOct 16, 2019Bringing further gravitas and grace to mundanity, he continues in the business of poetically detailing everyman strife and significant moments. [Oct 2019, p.50]
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MojoOct 10, 2019[Album opener Civil Servant is] sonically inventive, with vocoder interludes and a rousing final call of "Refuse! Refuse!," but its on-the-nose swipes at "Bus-fulls of meat...staring at phone-screens" can't avoid the patronising tone of 95 per cent of all songs about "the workers," written by those otherwise employed. ... Far better are songs where Dawson locates the misery and mystery of life in smaller worlds and stranger vignettes. [Nov 2019, p.90]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 3 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 1 out of 4
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Oct 11, 2019I was terrified that this album could never live up to the achievement that was Peasant. But it does.
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Oct 13, 2019
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Nov 30, 2019
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Oct 14, 2019The album has some great songs but I think there's missing something different and new...
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