Walking in the sunshine of your love
There's a great new one from Richard Dawson out today, which is available as a very limited Dinked Edition. And there's new ones from Bartees Strange, The Delines, The Cure, Horsegirl, and a great new Numero Group compilation. Scroll down for the goods, or here for more on each.
The title of Richard Dawson's new album End of the Middle is a suitably slippery contradiction, one that invites multiple interpretations: Middle-aging? Middle-class? The middle-point of Dawson's career? The centre of a record? Centrism in general? Polarisation? The possibility of having a balanced discussion about anything? Stuck in the middle with you? Middle England? Middling songwriting?
End of the Middle is a wonkily beautiful peer into the workings of the family unit, perhaps several generations of the same family: "I wanted this record to be small-scale and very domestic", Dawson explains, "to be stripped back, stark and naked, and let the lyrics and melodies speak for themselves and for the people in the songs". By paring things right back what is revealed is a suite of remarkably poised, oddly elegant, beautiful music.
Available as a limited Dinked Edition:
+Yellow vinyl*
+Bonus 7” featuring two exclusive tracks*
+12-page lyric booklet
+Numbered edition*
+Limited pressing of 1,000*
*EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition
The second (and very limited) Dinked Edition out today is from 4AD's Bartees Strange, where he incorporates formative influences from Parliament Funkadelic, Fleetwood Mac, and Neil Young, in to his interest in hip hop, indie, and modern rock. Literate country soul outfit The Delines have a new one, on limited brown vinyl. The Cure's album release show, recorded at the Troxy, has made it to vinyl. Numero Group lasso 16 Opry hopefuls from across the Numeroverse, corralling the timeless tropes of heartbreak, trouble, and the bottle on Barnyard Beehive. And Matador's New York-via-Chicago trio Horsegirl are back with their Cate Le Bon produced second LP, this time incorporating violins, synths, and gamelan in to their 90s indie sound, coming across like a bit more minimal Look Blue Go Purple.
