“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.”
“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”
“The Newcastle Upon Tyne avant-folk songwriter delivers his most ambitious compositions to date in this conclusion to a trilogy of time-specific concept albums”
“The latest from the ambitious British musician is a grim vision of the future: a crumbling, corroding monument that feels strangely devoid of a soul.”
“In an age of Spotify-led instant gratification, there’s something pleasingly bloody-minded about Richard Dawson’s decision to begin his seventh album with the 41-minute The Hermit. It feels more statement than song, a suspicion that is backed up by the fact it has an accompanying short film, to be shown at selected cinemas. So far, so Michael Jackson’s Thriller. And yet it’s curiously underwhelmin”
