Richard Dawson - Peasant ALBUM REVIEW

Review Thy Art Is Murder's latest album

Anthony scamtano

Isn't Richard Dawson an old atheist scientist? Didn't know he made music. Interesting...

Yellow flannel lied, 5/10

Review To The Bone by Steven Wilson!!!

where does fat tony get his flannel shirts from ?

Is this the same Richard Dawson from Family Feud

Really glad Anthony reviewed this one, superb record, Richard deserves all the praise he gets for these songs. Saw him live this past weekend, just incredible

Beautiful. Thanks man.

New Iron & Wine review?

I'm glad I found this album from here! I love the weird medieval vibe from it

This album, especially Weaver feels like a singer songwriter/folk Primus, at least to me

I really want to see a video of Danny brown and Richard Dawson having a normal conversation in their performance voices.

This album is amazing, thanks melon

I didn't know this Richard Dawson guy's music. Now I know it. And my life is significantly better! Thanx, Melon man.

For a second, I thought I'd read Richard Branson and I was like whaaat, Richard Branson came out with a music album?!

You can't say 'folk' properly, bruv

My dad is called Richard Dawson lol

thanks antwan fantwan, this was a pleasant suprise.

After listening to the album, I feel like some of his songs could perfectly fit in a Ralph Bakshi movie, specifically "Wizards". The mix of old folk melodys and futuristic electronic music would tie in well for that movie. Especially the Songs Scientist and Weaver. I don't know, that's how I personally feel and I loved it.

Brilliant album, more people need to know about this

prog hobbit medieval show tune metal. Andrew Lloyd Webber & Sufjan S on the GoT set with a childrens choir.

If you ever get the chance to see him live, he is something else

On my first listen I thought it was crap, horrible production, dodgy guitar playing, iffy singing, how wrong I was. I love this record, it's like a beard.

Masseuse is gold, I wouldn't criticize its pacing.

he did a track called we picked apples in a graveyard freshly mowed. it's fucking haunting.

This guy is like the male version of Joanna Newsom

just saw him live.. well worth seeing. :)

I can say, without hyperbole, that this is one of the most creative folk albums I've ever heard.

Re the guitar - he accidentally broke it years ago (it was a cheapo purchase) and it was repaired sort of but he liked the sound it made so has stuck with it, hence the weird vibrating and tuning and other bumping and grinding noises.

They're not singing in harmony there melon, they're singing in unison. You never even been to England have you?

hearing this album through when I was drawing and it was the most beautiful thing ever

suck it nerds it's better than DAMN. hehe

Criminally underrated album

"Soldier" is one of the very best songs I have ever heard in my life. Everything about it is absolutely flawless and there isn't even a single moment that doesn't belong.

Review 2020

Love that this review in particular has people actually discussing the album in the comments; not just leaving memes. Dawson is a genius. His new album 2020 is like Peasant Part 2; absolutely incredible. Really interested to see what you think of it Fantano.

Wow, it's crazy looking back on these comments and seeing people actually talk about the album. Not "I liked the review but when melon said n-word for a minute straight wasn't cool HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA". Kind of refreshing

Let the Freak Flag Fly - Mike Kandel

I liked when he talked about how each song feels like a captured moment. The impressionist movement is kind of obsessed with trying to capture an exact feeling of a moment and something that I've always loved about art.

I am tired, and I am afraid

How can he love this album but hate the Alex G album? They’re pretty similar in their rudimentary instrumentation and songwriting and general aesthetic

Isn't Richard Dawson Welsh?

I came over this album yesterday. It was, and is a very amazing album. Ogre is amazing.
And thanks for yer talk.

Some parts remind me of Gabriel-era Genesis a little bit. Possibly because of their folk influences.

A 10 for me

Loooooveee this album

I haven’t really been able to get into most of Dawson’s other stuff. But for whatever reason, this album really does it for me. It’s one of my favorite albums, at the moment.

I like the way Dawson writes about Bryneich. It paints a very real picture of the time period, in how he describes the weaver’s work, the battle the soldier’s about to enter, the near death of a baby, and the superstitions and spiritualistic beliefs of the people at that time. It feels less like a heroic tale fit for a modern novel or movie, and more just like certain accounts of regular life in the Middle Ages. Some of it seems pretty wild and strange to us now (fighting with swords, being rescued from a bog by a literal shapeshifter, legendary pieces of jewelry, etc.), but it feels like a very authentic account of life back then.

Dawson also manages to walk the thin line between overmodernizing the language he uses in his lyrics, and making it so authentic that it’s incomprehensible. He uses somewhat archaic phrasing and imagery to evoke the time period, but doesn’t write in Old English (or even in Victorian English, as Shakespeare did). He makes his writing quite easy to understand, both from a narrative perspective, but also in that it evokes the time period Dawson is writing about quite well.

All in all, I just love this album. As someone who grew up on traditional folk music from the UK and Ireland, and has since delved even deeper into that world, this album has really been a treat for me.

I love shapeshifter

Fantano calling it correctly yet-a-fucking-again. The guy's incredible,