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Peasant (album)

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Peasant
Studio album by
Released2 June 2017 (2017-06-02)
GenreProgressive folk
Length58:46
LabelWeird 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]

Reception

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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 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

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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

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  1. ^ "Richard Dawson - Interview - 2017". Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Peasant by Richard Dawson reviews". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
  3. ^ a b "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.
  15. ^ Riley, Danny (1 June 2017). "The Quietus | Reviews | Richard Dawson". The Quietus. Retrieved 24 December 2017.