Richard Dawson’s bent folk music has never been entirely of this earth. The Newcastle singer-songwriter has always had a flair for the fantastical, painting even the most modern of problems with ...

Richard Dawson’s own upbringing was somewhere around the middle ... After failing his A-levels and flunking on a college music course, Dawson was saved by a job in a Newcastle record shop. This ...

Dawson frames the conceit within modern families, examining the ways generations relate unsteadily to each other amid damaging patterns of behavior. The smaller scale liberates his best qualities ...

The last time we heard from Richard Dawson was 2022’s The Ruby Cord, a immersive, complex album set in a virtual reality future which concluded a trilogy that explored a range of social attitudes told ...

Dawson’s music propels us into its deep meanings, and shows us that the places we fail to examine are where we will find meaning, and the closest we will ever get to an explanation of existence. There ...

Marking the release of his latest album End of the Middle, Richard Dawson shares a track that transports ... Elizabeth presents her trademark selection of fresh music from genre-defying artists ...

Over twinkly cruise ship syn-strings, the protagonist in More Than Real – the final track on Richard Dawson’s new LP – remembers a great false dawn. “In the moment I first gazed upon my bonny lass ...