We're always here for a new Richard Dawson album. From sprawling visions of the future to collaborations with a Finnish experimental metal band, Dawson has kept us on our toes. Now, he's stripping it all bare for new LP End of the Middle, for a set of songs focusing on stories about family. Label Domino have described the tunes herein as "remarkably poised, oddly elegant, beautiful music", and we can't wait to hear them. - Flying Out
The title of Richard Dawson's new album End of the Middle is a suitably slippery contradiction, one that invites multiple interpretations: Middle-aging? Middle-class? The middle-point of Dawson's career? The centre of a record? Centrism in general? Polarisation? The possibility of having a balanced discussion about anything? Stuck in the middle with you? Middle England? Middling songwriting?
End of the Middle is a wonkily beautiful peer into the workings of the family unit, perhaps several generations of the same family: "I wanted this record to be small-scale and very domestic", Dawson explains, "to be stripped back, stark and naked, and let the lyrics and melodies speak for themselves and for the people in the songs". By paring things right back what is revealed is a suite of remarkably poised, oddly elegant, beautiful music.
Tracklist:
1. Bolt
2. Gondola
3. Bullies
4. The Question
5. Boxing Day Sales
6. Knot
7. Polytunnel
8. Removals Van
9. More Than Real
End of the Middle has a scheduled release date of .
In the event of any delays to this date we will keep this page updated and email any pre-order customers.