Not that they're not otm.
Also getting some late 90s post peak 808 State vibes off this one.
― Tim F, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
yeah really stop posting good music in December
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 December 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
it's actually the "what are you afraid of...?" bit with all the whirring behind i find most evocative but i can't pin down of what specifically
is the next line "i'm dripping dreams in your cup"?? the contrast between the voices reminded me of shakespear's sister for a moment
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 09:33 (nine years ago) link
let's be careless and vibe <3
(think that's what she's singing, if it isn't it should be)
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:54 (nine years ago) link
fucking hell this album is just...making my head spin. where the hell is she getting these beats from? i never expected anything like this after the druski split, the DK fiasco etc.
bad news "physical" isn't on it (neither are "judith" or "valkyrie"), good news is that "physical" was a really good indication of what's going on here. the sonix are ridiculous but where goldenheart was heavy, this is so so light
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 17:40 (nine years ago) link
"swim free" is even more towa tei than "physical"
"adderall / sold" purports to be two songs in one but it's more like seven
we have a shameless equivalent of "faith" here as well
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
good news is that "physical" was a really good indication of what's going on here
oh mannnn
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
bf thought the outro sounded like aphex twin (i've never heard aphex twin so can't confirm or deny)
what the hell is going on with these incredible beats though
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
'physical' (and i'd imagine most of the album) was this guy again
https://twitter.com/noisecastleiii/status/539144414854017024https://soundcloud.com/noisecastleiii/sets/dawn-richard
seems to favour a skewed tinkering (also produced a lot of the jojo agape tape http://www.noisecastleiii.com/#!jojo/c1r8z), idm familiarity quite likely
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
kinda funny/possibly instructive that if he was going for moroder with 'physical' then a lot of its appeal came from how he got it slightly "off" (hence japanesey pseudosimulacra vibe), presumably unintentionally
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link
;__; I want to hear this soooo bad I always associate DR with the middle of winter
― fgti, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 18:45 (nine years ago) link
this record is very weird
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 January 2015 06:53 (nine years ago) link
on itunes btw
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 January 2015 07:09 (nine years ago) link
thread of brad encountering difficulty in publicly appraising his new friend's record :)
― r|t|c, Thursday, 15 January 2015 08:52 (nine years ago) link
Dawn Richard / NEON retweetedJason Lipshutz @jasonlipshutz · 5h 5 hours agoImagine Animal Collective following "Sung Tongs" with a warm R&B album. That's what this @DawnRichard album sounds like. Unreal.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 15 January 2015 08:55 (nine years ago) link
i've never had such an enjoyable time having difficulty digesting a record
― j. winters (josh), Thursday, 15 January 2015 09:08 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FszEaxrHGTs
― prolego, Thursday, 15 January 2015 10:28 (nine years ago) link
right, now it's out there
1) i was so relieved because post-goldenheart everything seemed to be going a little awry: goldenheart itself didn't get any traction, the original blackheart lead singles were ok-ish but also pointed to dawn disappearing into her own mythology somewhat (also forgetting to write songs), the danity kane detour was a shambles even if the album was surprisingly excellent
2) blackheart's greatest accomplishment is probably the way it pulls itself out of the threatened dead-end, not by abandoning that mythology but by transforming it. it's so unexpected in the way it contrasts to goldenheart - light where GH was heavy, in permanent flux where GH was monolithic, shape-shifting where GH was implacable
3) still not over the beats, and how many ideas there are in them, and how restless they are, and how their constant shifts add to the feeling of instability, and how much she abandons traditional songcraft to let them tell the story
4) impeccably sequenced imo - opener jolts you upright, then one-third crazy busy electronics then one-third floating calm then one-third home stretch of obviousness
― lex pretend, Thursday, 15 January 2015 12:27 (nine years ago) link
what the fuck is 'calypso'?! so amazing.
― Nourry, Thursday, 15 January 2015 12:40 (nine years ago) link
GET THEE RIGHT / GET, GET THEE RIGHT
― lex pretend, Thursday, 15 January 2015 12:52 (nine years ago) link
"blow" sounds a gazillion times better than it did as a single - a new mix i think? it pops a lot more.
if "adderall/sold" is the album's grandiose centrepiece, "swim free" is probably its beating heart
"billie jean" reminds me of jojo's last mixtape, and they've worked together since...
― lex pretend, Thursday, 15 January 2015 12:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah "blow" works so much better within the context of the whole record
― j. winters (josh), Thursday, 15 January 2015 15:15 (nine years ago) link
well this and Reality Show are gonna be distracting me from last year overflow in a big way.
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 15 January 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
my characterization of it as "weird" last night is bc at the listening party last night she played basically all the craziest tracks in a row, plus both interludes for some reason. (she's incidentally very proud of "projection" and talked about how she was just listening to patches and drum sounds for like weeks in a row, and you can tell, it's soooo obliquely funky.)
i also feel v emotional about "warriors"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
I bought this last night right when it became available :) and she tweeted something about it scoring high on iTunes charts? hooray! can't listen until tonight though ugh
― my booty it clean (fgti), Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:03 (nine years ago) link
i predict u love it fgti
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:04 (nine years ago) link
how was the listening party! was it well-attended etc.
― lex pretend, Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:10 (nine years ago) link
it's strange, despite the almost wholesale abandonment of conventional song structure and only a few token concessions to the idea of pop, this is SO much more immediate than goldenheart
― lex pretend, Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:11 (nine years ago) link
like i think it took me 3 months with goldenheart to get to where i am after a week-and-a-half with blackheart
for a small studio it was kinda packed. we also watched the video for "tide" before hearing the record; apparently "tide" is on vinyl copies of the record. also i got there early and she was just playing goldenheart tracks through these enormous speakers and man isn't "86" the most crushing song
dawn is supremely nice
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
i was going to say exactly this
Getting strong Bjørk vibes from a couple of these tracks.
― longneck, Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah that's right, dawn also described herself as "a girl from new orleans who grew up loving bjork"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
yeah björk definitely came to mind at several points. i think vespertine-era most? it's quite difficult to pinpoint what i mean by "björkish" though
― lex pretend, Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:30 (nine years ago) link
― longneck
Yep. "Billie Jean" plays as if Bjork had a go at the MJ concept.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:34 (nine years ago) link
it's the way these details sort of...bubble up out of the mix, the way the beats breathe. maybe it's actually medúlla-era björk, the shifting wonkiness of the beats and the organic feel?
― lex pretend, Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
is "billie jean" retelling the MJ story from her perspective? the narrative seems to obliquely nod at it but never makes it explicit
― lex pretend, Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:37 (nine years ago) link
essentially it's a meditation on the mj idea of groupies from the perspective of groupies so yes
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:38 (nine years ago) link
djp needs to hear this record immediately btw
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:40 (nine years ago) link
Bjørk ca Homogenic - Vespertine I guess. It does make me wish she had hits like Bjørk to build on though. It would have made it so much easier to sell this to a wider audience.
― longneck, Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:41 (nine years ago) link
omifuckinggod "Adderall"
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
speaking of MJ, "Adderall" is like "Morphine" on ludes.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
Excited for this.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:49 (nine years ago) link
that last minute or so of "warriors" *heart eyes emoji*
― j. winters (josh), Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
OH MY GOD THE WOODWIND SECTION IN "PROJECTION"
― j. winters (josh), Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
Jealous of your listening party situation BradFuck what I'm doing I'm going home and putting this on
― my booty it clean (fgti), Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link
was breakfast-sandwich late to work this morning thinking I could just listen to a little bit on spotify before I left the apt
― rob, Thursday, 15 January 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
"Projection" just wrapping up now. Mildly disappointing first listen so far. "Goldenheart" was ace after ace of indelible melody, felt like it transcended space/time/genre convention. So far this sounds like some great production ideas coupled with a lot of unedited vocal improvs
― my booty it clean (fgti), Thursday, 15 January 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link
Ooh that flute solo tho
But all the hookiest tracks on "Goldenheart" ("86", "Pretty Wicked Things", "In The Hearts Tonight") were early favourites, which gave way to the subtler stuff. Not gonna give up
― my booty it clean (fgti), Thursday, 15 January 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link