The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

"Break of Dawn" came up on shuffle and I hadn't realized just how insipid it is til now. Feels about two hours long in its own right. :/

worst threat to the album's rep is if she just keeps dropping stray tracks throughout the year that work better as standalone tracks than most of Goldenheart

― some dude, Wednesday, March 13, 2013 9:17 AM Bookmark

definitely thinking now that the album could've used the lyric "let's fuck on this bed of roses"
https://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/movie

she never drew first but she drew first blood

it's getting to the stage where it's a real shame she's just dropping tracks of this quality randomly and individually, "empty room" and "movie" in particular are pretty stunning, could've made for a pretty great stopgap mixtape/EP

yeah it'll be interesting to see if these get collected in any official/retail form, i wonder if this is like Whiteout where it's stuff all done after the album that she's impatient to let people hear.

i've only been paying cursory attention but i think some of them have been old old stuff, from the a telltale heart era or before, and maybe others are just stuff she's been doing recently that she feels won't fit on to blackheart...

i think it was insinuated on her tumblr that some of these are actually *old* tracks

yeah, people are commenting along the lines of "oh man, i'm glad to hear this cleaned up finally!"

playing nyc on the 28 - anybody else going?

Where? With who?

gramercy something, check the tumblr

ah gramercy theater. it's a live nation venue but a reasonable price. yeah, i'm gonna want to get in on that.

and another one : http://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/dawn-richard-army

https://soundcloud.com/drewscotty/skywalker

first track from Druski's debut EP out in July w/ featured vocals from Dawn.

think my goodwill has run out with these two. get your shit together u dolorous drips

Dawn needs some baby dragons.

― Tim F, Friday, 8 March 2013 11:43 (3 months ago) Bookmark

srsly

mmm this is not what i was really expecting or wanting

the danity kane reunion rumours floating around are odd, it really doesn't seem to fit in with dawn's uh ~branding~ and she's still talking about the trilogy?

honestly if they just want to do something together without diddy telling them whether they're a group or not just because they want to i think that's kind of sweet.

oh don't get me wrong i'd be very pro a DK reunion, i was a fan! i just don't really see how it would fit in with dawn's solo career unless it was just, like, a one-off single?

that seems like a weird question given how much music she's released in the space of a year recently

BlackHeart is out October 7, 2013. Apparently she's working with an entirely new team and according to her Twitter, there are no collaborations with Druski on the album at all...

The Riot/Northern Lights video is also cancelled due to a change in team... Not sure what's up. But things seem to still be moving forward.

are the stray tracks that have come out in the last few months Druski productions? it'd be such a shame if those never end up on an album or EP.

Didn't she say before that she's been saving tracks for BlackHeart and uh... RedemptionHeart or whatever the hell it was?

And seems odd to hear this news just days after Druski released a new song with her vocals.

Looking forward to her detective-themed EP HeartToHeart.

hmm, it looks like she's going the kickstarter route for blackheart...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1802273713/the-blackheart-experience

hope this doesn't mean we won't get it if it isn't funded :/

wait, all rewards are limited and the total she can possibly get from them is 11k when the target is 25k?

i mean it's arguably smart to have the possible total of rewards exceed the goal but it's by no means a necessity

I get that people can donate without getting a reward or you can just send out extra rewards anyway, but I'd guess that having some reward (even a free album download) would be a better incentive when you have a pretty ambitious goal?

idk what happened but she canceled the show she had scheduled here a couple months ago

well, "meteors", the lead single from blackheart, is out on monday. fairly unrevealing snippet: http://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/meteors-snippet

mostly of interest is that it's produced by someone called hakan özkan, who appears to be a turkish tech house producer. this is the only vocal track on his soundcloud - it's pretty good http://soundcloud.com/hakan-ozkan/running_to_the_sea

druski's thing is out, can someone listen for me cos i cba

all moody piano ballads except for one reverby one iirc, on one slightly disappointed listen

apparently they had a falling out :(

sleek, stripped-down house! her head voice! yes!

http://www.thisisrnb.com/2013/07/new-music-dawn-richard-meteors/

This is awesome

So I guess I'm not gonna miss Druski much after all. This blows away almost everything on Goldenheart

killing shit in the pompadour arms race too:

http://www.thisisrnb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Dawn-Richard-Meteors.jpg

Kaleidoscope Dawn

this is sharp, though perhaps a smidge linear. maybe next time get a new bridge for your song too ;)

the druski solo joint "places i've ever been" (lol) is alright, took me a minute to find since he released it under his government

http://c3.cduniverse.ws/resized/250x500/music/159/7518159.jpg

might have to downgrade from 'alright' to 'ok' after hearing the accordion on "Sex In Paris"

two new singles on itunes this week.

"judith"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHMq7zqjNb4

"valkyrie"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvLbltgft0o

i like both but i do hope she hasn't totally moved beyond writing hooks

also do we know anything substantial about this mdma production outfit? they seem to be a...production crew signed to...polow da don's zone4 label?!

"Valkyrie" is dope but ugh guest rapper get thee gone

Those are both really good. Wish Goldenheart had included some of these newer tracks; it could have used the variety

"Judith" is incredible, I am really digging the dialing down of the intentional autotune overdrive to allow the real colors of her voice through

the polish is impressive (and a change was probably undeniably necessary) but idk i'm still yet to quite be convinced by these new ones - kinda feel like well-meaning but slightly off novel/tv adaptations of a beloved messy pulp comic book

"Judith" is gorgeous

they're both impressive in their own ways but i can understand people's reservations. i remain optimistic.