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Peasant is a studio album by Richard Dawson, released in 2014 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] For example, the song "Beggar" is the simple tale of a homeless man and his beloved dog, and "Masseuse" is an exploration of the nature of greed.

Reception

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Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
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Metacritic82/100[2]
Review scores
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AllMusic     [3]
The Guardian     [4]
The Quietus(favourable)[5]

Peasant received some 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 "generally favourable reviews".[2] The Quietus listed it in first position on their list of the best albums of 2017." 2014.[5]

In Danny Riley's review of the album for The Quietus, he 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 the Dawson's avant-garde approach to folk music as "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."[5]

Track listing

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No.TitleLength
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

References

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  1. ^ "Richard Dawson - Interview - 2017". Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Critic Reviews for Peasant - Metacritic". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 24 December 2017. {{cite web}}: Check |url= value (help)
  3. ^ Deming, Mark. "Peasant - Richard Dawson". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  4. ^ Petridis, Alexis (2 June 2017). "Richard Dawson: Peasant review – Muddy glorious". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
  5. ^ a b c Riley, Danny (1 June 2017). "The Quietus | Reviews | Richard Dawson". The Quietus. Retrieved 24 December 2017. Cite error: The named reference "quietus" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).

Category:2017 albums Category:Folk albums