Richard Dawson

Nothing Important

English experimentalist songwriter Richard Dawson is a brave man. Sure, it needs courage to take a pedal-driven acoustic guitar alone to accompany his oddball vocal compositions, and the fact that he is doing it for quite some time now only proves his downright bravery and artistic ambition. By stretching folk music's standards and taking genre's conventions to its limit, Dawson arrives at a pivotal point of his career with the polarizing Nothing Important. Although this may be called 'simple' ... read more

With The Magic Bridge and The Glass Trunk exposing Richard Dawson to a wider audience due to great critical acclaim from various online review sites, he became more popular and attracted the attention of Domino Records. He would eventually sign onto the Domino sub-label Weird World, who rereleased the two aforementioned albums.

His first album under the Weird World label was his first masterpiece, Nothing Important (Weird World, 2014). The experiences gleaned from the making of The Glass Trunk ... read more

The Vile Stuff es una de las canciones acerca de la vida nocturna citadina que mas cercana está de un aquelarre. Realmente es impresionante el nivel que le saca a las otras canciones del álbum. Pero bien el mismo se podría decir que esta centrado tanto en esta canción como en Nothing Important, por lo cual se puede razonar el porque de la diferencia de desarrollo. Judas Iscariot y Doubting Thomas sirven como intro y cierre perfectamente, sin nada mas que agregar.

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