We included the brilliant Newcastle oddball folk artist Richard Dawson’s band’s latest album, Mogic (an old Welsh word for north) in the second part of our favourite albums of 2018, and after last year’s acclaimed Peasant, this song from it is another prime sample of his ability to create unique crossover of style and subject. Working with Rhodri Davies (guitar, harp), Sally Pilkington (vocals), Dawn Bothwell (keyboards), this is more plugged in, electronic work than Dawson’s acoustic material solo material, with their contribution clearly audible. It’s impossible to categorise this heady mixture of folk instruments and electronica with thudding bass, except it has an echo of late-70s Peter Gabriel about it. “They measure my brainwaves and force me to confront my regret.” A song about an outsider in a psychedelic state, wrapped in a strange landscape, mixing myth and history? But who is the problem - the child or those around him?
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