The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

fuck itunes i paid for this and all songs will download except one!

ugh son

Just downloaded this, but can't listen to it yet (at a cafe and I have no headphones).

Instead, I am thoroughly enjoying the OG dropshadow booklet design.

the last minute of "Heaven", fuck! those strings and that ever more insistent percussion

HOW GOOD IS IT

http://dawnrichard.tumblr.com/post/20054589357/bombs-away-say-hey-what-did-you-say-shout-out-to

scroll down <3

OK, at home now listening to the album. At Automatic, seems like the track sequence is really perfect.

yeah it's sequenced really really well

I'm hanging in there for Faith and Scripture based on comments here, although it's still great to hear Black Lipstick and Changes again this way!

OK, well obviously, Faith is my new jam. But feel like I need much more time with this!

Just downloaded it. Preparing to listen.

People saying "Faith" sounds like Flesh Tone otm. Love that album, need to go back to it.

kinda sounds like it was inspired by the Jamie XX & Gil Scott-Heron/Drake thing to me

this album is too good

SFMU remix is so great

it has this sort of aftermath-of-the-war vibe

I love the persistent superman motif's in Dirty Money-related projects

superfluous apostrophe there

REFERENCE SUPERMAN LISTEN TO SADE should be the dirty money motto

'automatic' has that same sort of nonapologetic vibe of 'runway', it's great

wait, maybe sade is superman

It's interesting that Dawn runs with that superman/superhero/invincible/bulletproof narrative so much given I think a big part of her voice's appeal is how she can sound so much on the verge of tears while still singing really well. "Change" is an excellent example of the latter quality.

true, i'm finding it kinda hard listening to this in the sunshine thinking "jeez cheer up brandy"

jokes aside tho the record is impeccable

hope + pray for an extended version of 'heaven' somewhere down the line for the full quentin harris experience

oh i should hear this huh

i swear that's skepta's voice just before the drop on 'faith' as well

i'm kind of weary of all the superhero-themed lyrics on both tapes.

― some dude, Monday, March 12, 2012 3:13 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seriously it was quite enough when dawn had "superman" AND "super hero" AND "bulletproof" but then kalenna came with "s on my chest" and i was like come the fuck on

I have so much room in my heart for all these superman songs

otm

I GO GRENADE
YOU GO GRENADA

I'm listening for the first time and I just got the irresistible urge to post that. Three songs in and this is unstoppable.

So apparently there are other records that people might want to listen to now this exists? Unbelievable.

Sort of feel that this sets a high-water mark for dance influences in R&B and reveals almost everyone else as a clunky hack in comparison. Things like actually getting the drums right and sounding like they go with the music and keeping that rhythmic interest running - the flimsiness of recent R&B drum sounds has been a minor bugbear of mine for a while. Also she's great at songs and melodies that sound like they actually fit with the music rather than awkwardly plonked on top of it. The huge Guetta-does-Jamie-XX drop in the second half of 'Faith' works because everyone concerned realises that big filterdisco choruses are something that needs to be built up to rather than the basic building block of pop. Icing not cake.

idk why anyone is surprised that dawn's preoccupation with superhero motifs is continuing on an album called ARMOR ON

she uses them in really interesting ways, too - feel like "bulletproof" is the key here, the whole idea of being made superhuman through love - you could hear it as another iteration of the sade obsession b/c it's an extension of the whole "soldier of love" imagery

otm

I'm not actually sure these are particularly interesting or original metaphors at all but they sound cool.

she uses them in really interesting ways, too - feel like "bulletproof" is the key here, the whole idea of being made superhuman through love - you could hear it as another iteration of the sade obsession b/c it's an extension of the whole "soldier of love" imagery

― lex pretend, Thursday, 29 March 2012 10:31 (2 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah, and not just love but love itself, a higher power never specific to the person that's given her cause to feel love (or indeed feel hurt; "you may hate me but i'm still free" in 'bulletproof')

like "you are my scripture", the way people don't worship scripture itself but as a symbol of the things it represents. or worshipping messianic figures as conduits and restorers of communion with gods etc

listening to 'bulletproof' again i think it's not just the sunny weather, i do have to cop to missing a little of the grit and rough edges of tell-tale heart and lttp here

the way "I GO GRENADE YOU GO GRENADA" actually makes me suddenly hunger to put on 'matte black truck' instead

should add there is however sufficient grit here to make any comparison to that kelis album thoroughly unjust

yeah, and not just love but love itself, a higher power never specific to the person that's given her cause to feel love

yup when she kneels in reverence on "scripture" the focus is on the feeling, not the "him" of the song.

"bombs" is maybe the only disappointment? "i'm bout to blow" just makes me wish she'd given us a full length HQ "superman".

kinda sounds like it was inspired by the Jamie XX & Gil Scott-Heron/Drake thing to me

is this in relation to a specific song or the whole thing

he was comparing "Faith" to "Take Care"

didn't expect that to be a popular notion but it was the first thing i thought of when i heard it

blimey, the drums on this whole thing!

After a first listen, I love love love "Automatic" and "Scripture" (the latter Rev had tipped me to before), and it seems absolutely dud-free. Not sure about "Faith"; I don't dislike it, but something didn't quite work for me. Same as the second drum pattern that intrudes in "The Battle (Outro)"; not bad by any means, but felt clunky, like another song was playing and they poorly meshed.

Really impressive album.

I love that this is apparently an 'EP'

Yeah Faith is really obviously and openly making use of the Jamie XX hook but in a very different way, and the rest of the album sounds nothing like it.

aside from faith right now i'm really loving "heaven" but mostly cuz it's this album's version of "love lockdown"

I kept on not making the connection that you were talking about "Take Care" and thinking "Jamie XX is a really odd person to invoke when it comes to housey R&B".

Sort of feel that this sets a high-water mark for dance influences in R&B and reveals almost everyone else as a clunky hack in comparison.

Yeah this is what I was getting at upthread. It's quite amazing that (to my knowledge) she and her one producer guy did all of it.

"Faith", it should be noted, is the only track not produced by Druski, so if it sounds a bit different from the rest of the album, that's probably why.

aside from faith right now i'm really loving "heaven" but mostly cuz it's this album's version of "love lockdown"

― J0rdan S., Thursday, March 29, 2012 9:57 AM Bookmark

Except the tune actually develops.