[This review was originally published in Badaboom Gramaphone #3 and appears here with permission.]
Dawson, an angry three-piece that tumbled out of Glasgow, Scotland at the end of the ’80s, had an unhealthy penchant for that Big Flame/Ron Johnson/Gang of Four guitar sound, but they also drew comparisons to the Minutemen. Later on, they mixed dub and other studio trickery into their complex and abrasive sound. They left numerous seven-inches and three albums before fading into obscurity, Slight claims to fame: they were the first, maybe the only, band to ever include a lyric sheet with a Peel Session release, and they briefly appeared in the Scottish detective show Taggart as a band rehearsing in a church.
Cheese Market is a CD of their first two albums.
Side projects: Pope Joan (with members of God Is My Co-Pilot and Stretchhead) and Brittle Hip. Drummer Richie served time with both the Stretchheads and a short-lived power trio called Fenn.