Peasant | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 2 June 2017 | |||
Genre | Progressive folk | |||
Length | 58:46 | |||
Label | Weird World | |||
Richard Dawson chronology | ||||
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Peasant is a studio album by avant-garde folk musician Richard Dawson, released on 2 June 2017 by Weird World. Each song on the album is from the perspective of a different fictional narrator. Although it is set in the Kingdom of Bryneich, from the 400s to the 600s CE, it is intended to be a modern record, the stories and plight of each character largely contain universal themes that connect to the present day.[1]
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AnyDecentMusic? | 8.3/10[2] |
Metacritic | 82/100[3] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [4] |
Financial Times | [5] |
The Guardian | [6] |
Mojo | [7] |
Pitchfork | 8.0/10[8] |
Q | [9] |
Record Collector | [10] |
Uncut | 8/10[11] |
Peasant received acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 82 based on eleven reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[3] The Quietus listed it in first position on their list of the best albums of 2017,[12] and it placed second in The Wire magazine's annual critics' poll.[13] Exclaim! listed it at number 8 on their Top 10 Folk and Country Albums of 2017 list.[14]
In his review of the album for The Quietus, Danny Riley described Peasant as "a work reclaiming meaning of words like "folk" and "community," a complex parable and a force for unification in divisive times" and described Dawson's avant-garde approach to folk music as "more a prickly thicket of brambles than a bed of moistened leaves, with creakily bowed strings, spiky rushes of acoustic guitar and occasional splurges of noise."[15]
All tracks are written by Richard Dawson
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Herald" | 2:18 |
2. | "Ogre" | 6:56 |
3. | "Soldier" | 4:52 |
4. | "Weaver" | 5:58 |
5. | "Prostitute" | 4:00 |
6. | "Shapeshifter" | 4:30 |
7. | "Scientist" | 4:48 |
8. | "Hob" | 5:57 |
9. | "Beggar" | 7:24 |
10. | "No-one" | 1:20 |
11. | "Masseuse" | 10:49 |