The best albums of 2025 so far

The best albums of 2025 so far

The best albums of 2025 so far From projects by billy woods to YHWH Nailgun, these are the records we can’t stop spinning. By The FADER Illustration Sabrina Kaune art by Sabrina Kaune Around June is when we start to get a good sense of what this year in music will look like. So far,…

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#Richard Dawson’s hyperrealism

#Richard Dawson’s hyperrealism

The English singer-songwriter, prone to medieval flights of fancy and celestial metaphors, spends his new album, End of the Middle, embedded in life’s minutiae. Richard Dawson. Photo by Sally Pilkington.   Richard Dawson’s bent folk music has never been entirely of this earth. The Newcastle singer-songwriter has always had a flair for the fantastical, painting…

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#Song You Need: Richard Dawson’s lush apocalypse

#Song You Need: Richard Dawson’s lush apocalypse

“Song You Need: Richard Dawson’s lush apocalypse” “Thicker Than Water” pairs a stately, baroque instrumental with a grim doomsday vision. Kuba Ryniewicz Richard Dawson’s mind takes him to strange and often dark places, but his baroque brand of British folk is often at odds with his moribund themes. Such is the case in “Thicker Than…

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