Richard DawsonBest Richard Dawson Albums Ranked

Peasant

thelineofbestfit

9.5

“Richard Dawson's Peasant is an album of exhilarating force that deserves investment”

2020

fantano

9.0

“Richard Dawson outdoes himself with this modernist spiritual successor to 2017's Peasant.”

2020

loudandquiet

9.0

“When Richard Dawson’s last record Peasant became a key fixture of 2017’s end-of-year lists, it was hard to think of a less likely culprit. Peasant was a dense kaleidoscope of 6th century character studies (‘Weaver’, ‘Beggar’, ‘Prostitute’, ‘Soldier’ and so on) set in the kingdom of Bryneich, known today as Dawson’s native North-East. In interviews at the time, Dawson wondered aloud about the “fee”

Peasant

loudandquiet

9.0

“The narratives of ‘Peasant’s’ eleven tracks take place in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Bryneich. They do not, however, harbour the same fetishisation of pre-Medieval Britain apparent in contemporary cultural artefacts like Game of Thrones. Rather, there is a brooding earthiness to them more akin to Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast novels. Like Peake, Dawson tends towards a wending prose style full of scr”

The Ruby Cord

fantano

8.0

“While a bit rockier of a journey than the previous two albums in this trilogy, The Ruby Cord is still quite an accomplishment from Richard.”

The Ruby Cord

loudandquiet

8.0

“After a year of almost exclusively listening to the 2014 Richard Dawson oddball opus Nothing Important, I spent a long weekend in the singer-songwriter’s hometown of Newcastle. Part getaway, part pilgrimage, I entered the world of his songs, and a physical reality began to route the landmarks that littered his social realism. This experience induced a reverse Paris syndrome, in which further depth”