Peasant (album)

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.

Peasant
Studio album by
Richard Dawson
ReleasedJune 2, 2017 (2017-06-02)
GenreAvant-folk, progressive folk, medieval folk rock, freak folk, psychedelic folk
Length58:46
LabelWeird World
Richard Dawson chronology
Nothing Important
(2014)		 Peasant
(2017)		 2020
(2019)

Reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?8.3/10[2]
Metacritic82/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[4]
Financial Times[5]
The Guardian[6]
Mojo[7]
Pitchfork8.0/10[8]
Q[9]
Record Collector[10]
Uncut8/10[11]

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".[3] The Quietus listed it in first position on their list of the best albums of 2017,[12] and it placed second in The Wire magazine's annual critics' poll.[13] Exclaim! listed it at number 8 on their Top 10 Folk and Country Albums of 2017 list.[14]

In his review of the album for The Quietus, Danny Riley 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."[15]

Track listing

All tracks are 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. "Peasant by Richard Dawson reviews". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  3. "Reviews and Tracks for Peasant by Richard Dawson". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  4. Deming, Mark. "Peasant – Richard Dawson". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  5. Hunter-Tilney, Ludovic (3 June 2017). "Richard Dawson: Peasant — 'sounds like a parody'". Financial Times. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  6. Petridis, Alexis (2 June 2017). "Richard Dawson: Peasant review – muddy glorious". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  7. "Richard Dawson: Peasant". Mojo (284): 94. July 2017.
  8. Sodomsky, Sam (13 June 2017). "Richard Dawson: Peasant". Pitchfork. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  9. Harrison, Ian (August 2017). "Richard Dawson: Peasant". Q (375): 103.
  10. Goldsmith, Mike (June 2017). "Richard Dawson – Peasant". Record Collector (467). Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  11. Pattison, Louis (26 June 2017). "Richard Dawson – Peasant". Uncut. Archived from the original on 4 July 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
  12. "Quietus Albums of the Year 2017". The Quietus. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  13. "Rewind 2017: Releases of the Year 1–50". The Wire. No. 407. London. January 2018. p. 32 – via Exact Editions. (subscription required)
  14. "Top 10 Folk and Country Albums of 2017". Exclaim!. Retrieved January 9, 2018.
  15. Riley, Danny (1 June 2017). "The Quietus | Reviews | Richard Dawson". The Quietus. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
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