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Reviews for Lucas Dawson’s debut album Another Way to Say Goodbye:
“5 out of 5… a truly impressive record… a great album” - Altcountry.nl
“One of the 10 best records of 2010″ - Altcountry.nl
“best compared with masterpieces like ‘Blood on the Tracks (Bob Dylan) and Berlin (Lou Reed)…one of the most impressive albums in a long time…intense and breathtaking” – Rootstime.be
“Album of the Month” – Le Cri du Coyote
“a gem of an album… deserves widespread attention” - GoodNoise Radio
“Never has heartbreak sounded so palpable…it’s like you’re trespassing and reading the liner notes to someone’s soul, that you’ve suddenly crossed over into a heartbreak that’s too real not to be your own” – Nine Bullets
“8 out of 10″ - Wasteofmind.de
“4 out of 6… incredibly naked lyrics and vocals” - Nöjesguiden
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Lucas Dawson was born and raised in Western Australia. At age 15 he was bullied into buying a bass at the insistence of a guitar-playing friend who suggested that the two of them could put a band together.
Lucas played around Perth in various garage band combinations, even playing in a jazz poetry ensemble a short while, and spent a great deal of time writing short stories and film manuscripts. He got his heart broken at the age of 20 in a spectacular case of naiveté and fled to Europe shortly thereafter.
During four subsequent years in London – where he ended up running a cinema in Camden Town – he played very little music, instead spending increasingly more time writing prose and hanging out in dingy bars and nightclubs.
Following the call of a promising romance, and enchanted by the wild notion that he might be ready to write a novel, Lucas moved to Stockholm. He began playing bass again shortly after, and began singing – if extremely tentatively at first. He played in several outfits – ranging from noisy electro rock to straight pop to dinner jazz – for varying lengths of time, sometimes just standing in on bass on short tours or for single gigs. Several demos, and a full-length record (with instrumental agent-rockers Kalamare Beat Club), were released. Nothing happened. Lucas waited tables and swept floors.
The transition to a new country took its predictable toll. Engulfed by a foreign language, a small fish in a big new pond again, Lucas succumbed. His debut novel was abandoned half-way through. The once-promising romance hit unforeseen bad trouble and began a slow, inevitable implosion. Nobody’s fault, or everybody’s fault, or just one of those things. Ugly times.
Amidst the wreckage Lucas found burning inspiration. He would write and record a brutally honest break-up album, but quickly. No more waiting around for all of the usual endless rehearsal and slowboat demo-recording and begging for gigs and waiting for record contracts that never come. Just throw a band together and do it. Right Now. While the tears are still hot.
Lucas Dawson’s debut solo album Another Way To Say Goodbye is out now. Click through to the music page on this website to listen to the record!