The Ruby Cord

Description

Prick up your ears, close your eyes, let yourself be carried away by the wonders (and horrors) of augmented reality and prepare to travel 500 years into the future with Richard Dawson's next album, The Ruby Cord. Available on November 18 via Weird World (Domino), Richard Dawson's new album is the final installment of a trilogy that began with the pre-medieval world of "Peasant," then brought back to our time with "2020" and ending in the future with "The Ruby Cord." After his recent collaborations with Finnish metal pioneers Circle and his work with Hen Ogledd, Dawson dives back into his universe with seven tracks that lead us into an unreal, fantastic, and sometimes sinister future where social mores have changed, where ethical and physical boundaries have evaporated... a place where you no longer need to engage with anyone other than yourself and your own imagination. The opening track "The Hermit" is Dawson's most ambitious work to date, an epic narrative stretching its limits into a 40-minute piece with a sprawling atmosphere that acts as a gateway to the rest of The Ruby Cord. If the mantra of The Hermit is "what happens if we push a little further?" the answer to that question is: probably the best songwriting of Dawson's career so far.