love it
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 1 August 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link
You are all mad. Peasant was his peak. This next album might better it.
― Duke, Thursday, 1 August 2019 16:35 (four years ago) link
It will be something, that's for sure.
There's a limited-edition David Squires comic with the LP! Might have to get that...
― imago, Thursday, 1 August 2019 19:23 (four years ago) link
I like the way it's somehow both specific and universal, and I also like the contrast between the surging rock chorus arrangement and the almost humdrumness of the words being sung over them. Plus, I'm just coming to the end of reading Jonathan Coe's Middle England, and - the direct lyrical parallel aside - the themes of both dovetail well. It articulates something which feels more contemporary and less past-referencing than other stuff I've heard of his, and Rock suits him better here than on the Hen Ogledd project, which didn't really do it for me.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 1 August 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
agreed and nicely put
― imago, Thursday, 1 August 2019 21:14 (four years ago) link
WOW
― tangenttangent, Thursday, 1 August 2019 22:08 (four years ago) link
i think the song itself is fine but the rock arrangement is just so plodding and doesn't really work with his voice
― ufo, Thursday, 1 August 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
okay this on at least the best song I've heard oooh.. in the last day of not week. Nice one Dawso
― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 2 August 2019 00:30 (four years ago) link
is. I'm drunk
if. fml
dl otm :)
Great song, and re: mike t-diva, it's the specific that makes it universal. Loving this.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 2 August 2019 07:42 (four years ago) link
I tried to listen to Peasant again and couldn't get into it. Maybe I need to read some of the lyrics, but it feels more like the work of a full and different band: a lot more traditional and folky? I'm starting to think Jogging is my favourite thing by him that I've heard
― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 2 August 2019 09:08 (four years ago) link
anyone else getting Super Furry Animals vibes off this too?
― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 2 August 2019 09:09 (four years ago) link
yeah the vocoders made me think of them, that's all though
― imago, Friday, 2 August 2019 09:32 (four years ago) link
I always got a SFA vibe off him, so I can imagine this does.
Yep, good sentence that, sticking to it.
― Mark G, Friday, 2 August 2019 09:34 (four years ago) link
Even the clean vox have a tinge of Gruff Rhys straining to them.
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 August 2019 09:34 (four years ago) link
Then again, it's a NE accent, which (when some people try to imitate it) can end up sounding Welsh-ish.
― Mark G, Friday, 2 August 2019 09:38 (four years ago) link
I don't think this song is up there with the best of Peasant. (After only a few listens). I tend to agree with ufo above that the heavyish arrangement is a little plodding. But I'm really looking forward to the album. He's one of my favourite people.
― Duke, Friday, 2 August 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
I've come to realise that 'anyway, will you sponsor me for my stupid run? its gonna do fuck all' is the ultimate message from this song.
the yellow hoodiethe England flagthe kids in their karate outfits
the whole. fucking. thing.
― frame casual (dog latin), Sunday, 4 August 2019 04:06 (four years ago) link
I like this and it makes sense as a lead off single but I'm eager to hear more skronky folk jams like Weaver and Shapeshifter off the last album.
― hot dog go to bathroom (cajunsunday), Sunday, 4 August 2019 08:11 (four years ago) link
― hot dog go to bathroom (cajunsunday), Sunday, 4 August 2019 10:11
Exactly my thoughts.
― Duke, Sunday, 4 August 2019 12:28 (four years ago) link
'there's no such thing as a quick fix'
― frame casual (dog latin), Sunday, 4 August 2019 12:35 (four years ago) link
I'd never heard of this guy until I saw the Jogging video earlier. Loved it. Watched it three times. Teared up.
― del griffith, Monday, 5 August 2019 03:06 (four years ago) link
:)
you are in for a treat
― imago, Monday, 5 August 2019 08:07 (four years ago) link
Agreed!!
― Duke, Monday, 5 August 2019 19:35 (four years ago) link
I didn't think I liked the arrangement much but the lyrics have stuck with me since it was posted. Coming back for a second listen it's all sounding pretty great now.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Tuesday, 6 August 2019 04:53 (four years ago) link
I know I'm like Top Fan of this song, but I think the music really suits it. The opening heavy metal salvo is kind of a mocking tribute to Eye of the Tiger which gives away to that slightly clompy palm-muted rhythm. Makes me think of every time I've thought about jogging outside: that initial burst of inspiration quickly turning into mild disappointment at my own physical inabilities. And yeah, the robot voice bit provides some nice, light, maniacal relief.
― frame casual (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 August 2019 08:32 (four years ago) link
new one; much prefer this to jogging, which i'm yet to warm to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkSvn23fbAg
― devvvine, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 10:20 (four years ago) link
Eh, the poppier his aspirations the more I struggle with his fanciful streak. I'll start caring again when he reverts back to the relative nihilism of Nothing Important.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 10:36 (four years ago) link
While I do genuinely love Jogging, I agree. For the first time a new Dawson song that feels like self-parody to me, lyrically. I'd be fine with never hearing Two Halves again, and that's a first for me w/ Dawson.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link
Brace yourself for imago's beatdown!
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 10:46 (four years ago) link
*joggs off*
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 10:49 (four years ago) link
Best stop-motion interpretive dance of the year.
― tangenttangent, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 11:04 (four years ago) link
yeah this is great but clearly you both need to marinate more
― imago, Wednesday, 11 September 2019 11:05 (four years ago) link
and retrospectively nominating this for the animated poll yeah
Prophetic.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 08:00 (four years ago) link
Begrudgingly agreed :)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 08:06 (four years ago) link
I thought Nothing Important was great but not nearly as much as a lot of you. Couldn't get into Peasant too much. But both of these singles have blown me away. I haven't heard anything prior to NI but this feels like a drastic but pretty awesome departure so far. I think I love these.
― gman59, Tuesday, 1 October 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
Nothing Important is probably least favourite release of his, oddly. Peasant blew me away. I'm also really looking forward to this album. The more Dawson the better
― Duke, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 19:27 (four years ago) link
this is so great obv :)
jogging is just so amazing still
― imago, Friday, 11 October 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
hmm. it seems to frontload the best stuff
still good!
― imago, Friday, 11 October 2019 08:57 (four years ago) link
'Fulfilment Centre' tho.
― pomenitul, Friday, 11 October 2019 09:30 (four years ago) link
The entire Kurdish people have had a brick put through their kitchen window :(
― imago, Friday, 11 October 2019 10:00 (four years ago) link
Can't really think of another musician who so accurately captures what it's like to live in our world right now.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 11 October 2019 15:41 (four years ago) link
I was just thinking, prompted by his calling a track heart emoji, that there's a similar eye for the details of contemporary pains on the superb default genders album (aoty)
― ogmor, Friday, 11 October 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
will have to check it out
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 11 October 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
Wherein he reveals his favourite albums:
https://thequietus.com/articles/27269-richard-dawson-interview-favourite-music
― pomenitul, Monday, 14 October 2019 09:14 (four years ago) link
that is one of the most interesting and 'not heard; better check' bakers dozens ever. dicky daws is the coolest man alive
― imago, Monday, 14 October 2019 09:42 (four years ago) link
I've got a holy trinity of music, which is Eliane Radigue, Sun Ra and Circle. I could happily lose everything else and I think I'd be ok.
<333
― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 14 October 2019 10:30 (four years ago) link
I'm in two minds about this album. Much as I love Richard Dawson's work, I always appreciate it best when I'm reading the lyrics along with the music and that's why watching the video for 'Jogging' works so well. I'm not sure how well this works as something I can just play and enjoy without the lyric sheet. Enjoying the way each song is a little short story in itself, like a mini Mike Leigh movie. But as with so many writers of short stories, he has a tendency to rely on the same tricks, and occasionally condescends in a 'look at these poor souls and their rough lives' kind of way.Opener, 'Civil Servant', aims for the same levels of kitchen-sink bathos as 'Jogging', supplementing the 'British Red Cross' for 'Call of Duty'. But the story of the beleagured council worker lacks 'Jogging''s subtelty, and strays into uncharacteristically sith-form angstiness.More interesting are 'Two Halves' (in which a young foootball player worries about failing in front of his pushy father), and 'Heart Emoji', in which the creeping, ponderous music mimics the murderous thoughts of the song's jilted lover.
― frame casual (dog latin), Monday, 14 October 2019 10:35 (four years ago) link