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9.0
140224
9.0 |
musicOMH
One of his most accessible and oddly comforting records sports nonetheless an emotional edge that can catch you unaware
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9.0
140225
9.0 |
PopMatters
End of the Middle is a more streamlined Richard Dawson album that’s no less engaging and perhaps more accessible than his previous work
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8.5
140249
8.5 |
Beats Per Minute
The rawest and truest set of songs in his career to date
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8.2
140239
8.2 |
Spectrum Culture
It’s the doom of the inevitable, captured through quotidian details that bring a heavy sense of wonder and sanctity to the ordinary as it slips away
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8.0
140250
8.0 |
The Observer
From allotment highs to Holly and Phil, the Newcastle singer-songwriter mines life’s daily stresses and joys as only he can
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8.0
140253
8.0 |
The FT
The British musician sings about normal people and feelings of discontent in a release that repays attention
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8.0
140226
8.0 |
Far Out
In the record’s beautiful climax, ‘More than Real’, he brings much-needed context to the entire record and hints at the potential heights of emotion the record could have reached had the other songs been backed by the same production
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8.0
140227
8.0 |
Clash
An album of rare patience and empathy, ‘End Of The Middle’ doesn’t ever allow itself to descend into forthright commentary
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8.0
140234
8.0 |
The Quietus
The bard of Newcastle upon Tyne in stripped-back, bare-bones mode delivers his most intimate – and perhaps his best – album to date
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7.6
140230
7.6 |
Pitchfork
On a pared-back acoustic epilogue to his trilogy of solo records, the Newcastle prog-folk musician examines the way family histories repeat themselves
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7.4
140240
7.4 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
The End of the Middle might not be as breathtakingly immersive as Ruby Cord or as transportive as Peasant, but it further cements Dawson's place as modern folk's most fascinating auteur, turning historical echoes into something eerily prophetic
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