Peasant (album)

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Peasant
Richard Dawson Peasant.jpg
Studio album by
Richard Dawson
Released2 June 2017 (2017-06-02)
Genre Progressive folk
Length58:46
Label Weird World
Richard Dawson chronology
Nothing Important
(2014)		Peasant
(2017)		 2020
(2019)

Peasant is a studio album by avant-garde folk musician Richard Dawson, released on 2 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]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 8.3/10 [2]
Metacritic 82/100 [3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Financial Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Pitchfork 8.0/10 [8]
Q Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Uncut 8/10 [11]

Peasant received 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 "universal acclaim". [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

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  2. ↑ "Peasant by Richard Dawson reviews". AnyDecentMusic? . Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  3. 1 2 "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 9 January 2018.
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