title: 2020 (Richard Dawson album)
text: # 2020 (Richard Dawson album)
  
  2020 is a studio album by avant-garde folk musician Richard Dawson, released on 11 October 2019 by Domino Recording Company. Like its 2017 predecessor, Peasant, each song on the album is from the perspective of a different fictional narrator. Through these individual perspectives, 2020 explores the broad social attitudes and anxieties of modern British citizens. The album's press release describes Britain as "an island country in a state of flux; a society on the edge of mental meltdown".
  
  ## Reception
  
  2020 received acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 82 based on fifteen reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All tracks are written by Richard Dawson.
  
  