Richard Dawson: Peasant review – muddy glorious

A concept album set in medieval north Britain shouldn’t work. But Dawson’s way with lyrics and melodies makes it unique and often breathtakingIt’s hard to stop certain alarm bells ringing before you’ve even heard a note of Richard Dawson’s sixth solo album. The follow-up to 2014’s acclaimed Nothing Important is, we are informed, a song cycle based on the lives of inhabitants of Bryneich – a kingdom in Yr Hen Ogledd, or the Old North – in the early