Peasant (album)

Peasant
Studio album by Richard Dawson
Released June 2, 2017 (2017-06-02)
Genre Avant-folk, progressive folk, medieval folk rock, freak folk, psychedelic folk
Length 58:46
Label Weird World
Richard Dawson chronology
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(2017)

Peasant is a studio album by avant-garde folk musician Richard Dawson, released on the 2nd of June 2017 by Weird World. Each song on the album is from the perspective of a different fictional narrator. Although it is set in the Kingdom of Bryneich, from the 400s to the 600s CE, it is intended to be a modern record, the stories and plight of each character largely contain universal themes that connect to the present day.[1] For example, the song "Beggar" is the simple tale of a homeless man and his beloved dog, and "Masseuse" is an exploration of the nature of greed.

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic82/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[3]
The Guardian[4]
The Quietus(very favourable)[5]

Peasant received some acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 82 based on eleven reviews, indicating "generally favourable reviews".[2] The Quietus listed it in first position on their list of the best albums of 2017,[6] and it placed second in The Wire magazine's annual critics' poll.[7] Exclaim! listed it at number 8 on their Top 10 Folk and Country Albums of 2017 list.[8]

In Danny Riley's review of the album for The Quietus, he described Peasant as "a work reclaiming meaning of words like "folk" and "community," a complex parable and a force for unification in divisive times" and described Dawson's avant-garde approach to folk music as "more a prickly thicket of brambles than a bed of moistened leaves, with creakily bowed strings, spiky rushes of acoustic guitar and occasional splurges of noise."[5]

Track listing

All tracks written by Richard Dawson.

No.TitleLength
1."Herald"2:18
2."Ogre"6:56
3."Soldier"4:52
4."Weaver"5:58
5."Prostitute"4:00
6."Shapeshifter"4:30
7."Scientist"4:48
8."Hob"5:57
9."Beggar"7:24
10."No-one"1:20
11."Masseuse"10:49

References

  1. ↑ "Richard Dawson - Interview - 2017". Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Critic Reviews for Peasant - Metacritic". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  3. ↑ Deming, Mark. "Peasant - Richard Dawson". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  4. ↑ Petridis, Alexis (2 June 2017). "Richard Dawson: Peasant review – Muddy glorious". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  5. 1 2 Riley, Danny (1 June 2017). "The Quietus | Reviews | Richard Dawson". The Quietus. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  6. ↑ "Quietus Albums of the Year 2017". The Quietus. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "Rewind 2017: Releases of the Year 1–50". The Wire. No. 407. London. January 2018. p. 32 – via Exact Editions. (subscription required)
  8. ↑ "Top 10 Folk and Country Albums of 2017". Exclaim!. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
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