A strikingly different, wonderfully odd, eccentric and alternative folk and protest song by the British quartet of Richard Dawson, Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies and Sally Pilkington, heralding their upcoming third album Discombobulated, out on 20 February 2026 on Weird World / Domino Records. In eight minutes of evolving and swelling sounds, including rich brass and a trumpet solo, Bothwell’s spoken word vocal alludes to both protest history – the women at Greenham Common and Durham Miners’ Gala – and contemporary organising against corporate greed. Her vocal performances are among its most charismatic features. She adds: “Although I love hip hop, I want to make it clear that I’m drawing more on the spoken word tradition. I made up this term ‘Bard rap’; that’s more how I think of it.”
In the entertaining and colourful video – directed by James Hankins – Bothwell is positioned as an “alternative populist leader,” she jokes, wearing a blue alien power-suit and provoking a gang of kids to rebel.
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