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On ‘End of the Middle,’ English singer-songwriter Richard Dawson chooses domestic drama over the fantastical sagas of his ...

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 ...

The British tradition of observational songwriting goes through the looking glass with Richard Dawson. From his base in Newcastle, where he has been releasing records since the late 2000s ...

Another brutally cold week in the books and the blazing warmth of new music is our light at the end of the tunnel. This week, ...

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 ...

Joggers combating anxiety. In the decade since his breakthrough with his 2014 album Nothing Important, the songs of the iconoclastic Newcastle singer-songwriter Richard Dawson have observed life in ...

The bard of Newcastle upon Tyne in stripped-back, bare-bones mode delivers his most intimate – and perhaps his best – album to date, finds Tom Bolton Dawson is a master at creating and becoming ...

However, through universally mundane reference points, Richard Dawson grounds End of the Middle in the familiar and paints an emotional picture of commonality shared through pain. The closing track’s ...

Richard Dawson’s End of the Middle is a masterpiece of folk storytelling. Written in his Tyneside allotment, with ‘wasps and wandering horses for company’ its simplicity is deceptive. There are subtle ...

Gretchen Rossi and Slade Smiley are still going strong. “Happy anniversary, love,” Slade said from behind the camera. The video showed Gretchen walking to their Costa Mesa kitchen, where a ...