Due for release 14th February 2025 via Weird World
CD / Std Black LP / Indies Black LP + Signed Print / Limited Dinked Edition LP
Dinked Edition No 319 features :
Yellow vinyl
Bonus 7” featuring two exclusive tracks
12-page lyric booklet
Numbered edition
Limited pressing of 1,000
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.