Richard Dawson - 2020Richard Dawson, the black humoured bard of Newcastle, returns to release his sixth solo album 2020, his first since the critically acclaimed, Peasant.2020 is an utterly contemporary state of the nation study, that uncovers a tumultuous and bleak time. Having released the album Mogic with his band Hen Ogledd (the Old North) in 2018, Dawson decamped to Blank Studio, Newcastle with Sam Grant of Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs, Pigs and recorded all

from the anti-addiction anthem "Forge Your Own Chains" to the pained longing and lonesomeness of "Weather Girl"

and lasted several years

and I’m devoting so much of my life to music that I just want to keep it interesting

funked-up studio gear has been high on library geek‰۪s wants list for years

Originally released in 2004

RZA kept things minimalistic

"It was only later that it occurred to me that he was singing 'I Want You' because he actually wanted me

minimal march with a thunder roll that brings it to the brink and ‘Disarray’ bursts up like a blackened confetti cannon

Kidnapped Charabanc

the eighth studio album by Manchester ensemble The Durutti Column

the first volume in a series of three

gorgeous Arabic melody