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Hen Ogledd have shared the video for End of the Rhythm, the final single from their new album DISCOMBOBULATED (out February 20th). Directed by James Hankins and rooted in the gaudy euphoria of early 90s rave visuals, it’s a fitting companion to what KLOF’s Thomas Blake calls “their most consistent, relevant and boundary-pushing record yet.” The band also announce an 8-hour London sound-ritual this June.

Hen Ogledd’s third album, DISCOMBOBULATED, is fresh, weird, pranksterish, passionate and downright uncategorisable as we have come to expect. Their blend of freaky electronic folk-rock, politically charged psych-pop and modernist compositional techniques is elusive, bewildering and brilliant—music that seems to invent new colours. Admirably anti-bigotry, anti-corporate, anti-corruption. Their most consistent, relevant and boundary-pushing record yet.

Hen Ogledd return with “Clara,” a haunting single from their upcoming album DISCOMBOBULATED. The track blends pastoral beauty with the industrial grit of Northumbria’s mining history. An accompanying surreal video featuring a horse’s journey through 90s gaming nostalgia and medieval texts offers a psychedelic prelude to their immersive Valentine’s Day album playback and disco at Newcastle’s Star and Shadow.

Hen Ogledd (ft. Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington) have shared the video for “Scales will fall,” their urgent and striking first single from their forthcoming new album DISCOMBOBULATED. Vocalist Dawn Bothwell delivers her “Bard rap,” alluding to protest history—from the women at Greenham Common to the Durham Miners’ Gala—and contemporary organising against corporate greed.

Taken from his latest album, End of the Middle, Richard Dawson shares the video for his unashamedly sentimental album finale ‘More than Real’. “There’s no holding it back,” admits Dawson. “It’s quite glorious, hopeful – and terribly sad.”

End of the Middle, as its name suggests, might mark the closing chapter of a particular phase in Richard Dawson’s career, but it does so with panache and potency, proof that he is still the most gifted and generous of songwriters.

Taken from his new album, Richard Dawson shares ‘Gondola’ video, which features Jenny Coverack miming his words and reflecting on life—past, present, and future – a portrait so vivid, it’s totally genius.

Richard Dawson shares ‘Boxing Day Sales’, his unorthodox bid for Christmas Number 1 – I wanted to make a small, pure, jaded ‘pop!’ song that would somehow resemble an unwanted Xmas pressie – it’s accompanied by another great video Directed by James Hankins.

Richard Dawson announces his new album ‘End of the Middle’ and shares his lead single ‘Polytunnel’, the video for which was filmed at several allotments…a beautiful tribute to these communal, alternative spaces.

Alongside his upcoming UK tour dates, Richard Dawson announces the release of The Ruby Cord Live: a DVD of the recording of his live performance at St George’s Bristol on 4th May earlier this year. Watch the accompanying trailer.

For all the care and worry on Richard Dawson’s ‘The Ruby Cord’, there is always the possibility of an upsurge of joy, a moment of release… Wherever he currently sits on his 1000-year timeline, he speaks with unparalleled eloquence and imagination about the concerns and the comforts we all face.

Richard Dawson announces new album The Ruby Cord, due November 18th. A Pop video for the album’s 40-minute opening track “The Hermit” is to be premiered in cinemas across UK. Watch the trailer.

There is no other songwriter working at quite the imaginative level that Dawson is consistently reaching these days, and in Circle, he has found a band whose richness, variety and adaptability is the perfect complement to his unique vision. Henki is a strong late contender for album of the year.

Taken from his latest album 2020 which made it into several of our End of year lists, Richard Dawson shares his video for ‘Dead Dog in an Alleyway’.

Richard Dawson’s ‘2020’ is a sincere appeal to optimism, and above all else, sincerity is Dawson’s calling card. This is art shorn of artifice, pop against populism, and it just so happens to be one of the defining statements of our times.

On 11th October 2019, Richard Dawson is set to return with his sixth solo album 2020 which is already being called his “hardest-hitting and unflinchingly honest album to date” and “his poetic masterwork.” Pre-Order now.

Curated by Richard Dawson, Myth & Movement is an evening of musical, mythical mirth-making on Friday 20th September at The Old Coal Yard, Newcastle upon Tyne.

Taken from the forthcoming Stick in the Wheel compilation album “FROM HERE: English Folk Field Recordings Volume 2”, our Song of the Day comes from Newcastle’s folk maverick Richard Dawson. Watch the accompanying video.