Richard Dawson - End of the Middle
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Richard Dawson - End of the Middle
£19.99
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Track Listing / Description
A1 Bolt
A2 Gondola
A3 Bullies
A4 The question
A5 Boxing Day sales
B1 Knot
B2 Polytunnel
B3 Removals van
B4 More than real
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.