Richard Dawson has announced a new album: The Ruby Cord is out November 18 via Domino subsidiary Weird World. The album is billed as the final installment in a trilogy that began with Dawson’s 2017 album Peasant and its 2019 follow-up, which is titled 2020. Ahead of the full release, the English songwriter has shared a trailer for a film set to the opening track, a 41-minute song called “The Hermit.” The full film will screen in some UK cinemas later this year.
In a press release, Dawson said that the album, after the historically-set Peasant and the present-day 2020, was informed by futuristic science fiction and social collapse. “So many of us are moving into these fantasy worlds,” he said. “Whether it’s actual constructed virtual realities, computer worlds, or retreating into even more fantastical realms… conspiracy theories, nationalisms, amateur football punditry. People construct their own world because this one is so flawed.”
Last year, Dawson put out the album Henki with the Finnish metal band Circle.
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The Ruby Cord:
01 The Hermit
02 Thicker Than Water
03 The Fool
04 Museum
05 The Tip of an Arrow
06 No-one
07 Horse and Rider
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