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RICHARD DAWSON

The Ruby Cord

DOMINO

9/10

ICHARD DAWSON is on quite some creative streak. The past 12 months have already seen one great album from the Tyneside bard – , a collaboration with the Finnish metal alchemists Circle. Now here’s another: is framed as the conclusion to a trilogy of albums that Dawson began back in 2017. The first of the three, , surveyed a number of colourful characters living in the Middle Ages kingdom of Bryneich back circa the 6th century AD. It was followed by , which cast an empathetic eye across

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