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Richard Dawson
2020
(Weird World)
★★★★★
AFTER setting 2017’s critically acclaimed album Peasant in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Bernicia, singer-songwriter Richard Dawson shifts his focus to Brexit Britain on his new record.
A song cycle of extraordinary breadth and emotional depth, it’s full of compelling and anxiety-ridden first person narratives, including a deeply unhappy civil servant, a flooded-out pub landlord and a father dropping his daughter off at university.
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