Richard Dawson End of the Middle Vinyl LP 2025 Ltd Dinked Edition #319

Please note this is a pre-order item due for release 14th February, 2025

Dinked Edition #319

● Yellow vinyl *
● Bonus 7” featuring two exclusive tracks *
● 12-page lyric booklet
● Numbered edition *
● Limited pressing of 1,000 *

*EXCLUSIVE to Dinked Edition

Tracklist:

1. Bolt
2. Gondola
3. Bullies
4. The question
5. Boxing Day sales
6. Knot
7. Polytunnel
8. Removals van
9. More than real

Bonus 7”

1. VR Headset
2. Wooden Bag

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.

*Limited to 1 copy per customer/household, multiple orders will be cancelled without notice.