The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

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.

these songs don't pop like the non-album tracks that came out earlier this year, but that just makes me feel like i'll need to hear it all in album context to appreciate it. still a little annoyed that some really good songs will probably remain forever uncollected, though.

yeah going back to cuts like "empty room" and "love on the rocks" and "movie" it's apparent that the lack of immediacy with these is totally deliberate rather than she's forgotten how to write a hook (although i have my suspicions that she might have dredged "empty room" in particular up from the danity kane era - it's that sort of song)

apparently "judith" was inspired by the klimt painting!!!

Dawn teams with producer Cronos on “Judith,” which was inspired by the Gustav Klimt painting “Judith.” “It’s the story of a painting that is priceless and quite iconic being forgotten after being hung in a home too long,” she said.

like...does she actually sing from the perspective of the painting? because that is amazing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_and_the_Head_of_Holofernes

on the one hand, "judith" and "valkyrie" have been really growing on me - in partic the remix of the latter with jojo, who absolutely kills her verse.

on the other hand, looks like this danity kane reunion has thrown a spanner in the works - http://dopeavenue.com/exclusive-dawn-richard-talks-blackheart-album-danity-kane-reunion/

So Blackheart was scheduled to come out in October, but when the Danity Kane announcement came about, many fans were left speculating about what that meant for Blackheart. Can you clarify for the Hearts what the plan of action is going to be?

Dawn: Blackheart will come after DK project. I owe it to the hearts to give a proper release. I don’t want to confuse the DK fans and hearts. It was a hard decision to make but I think it’s a smart one. Blackheart is too great to rush and not tour on. I’d have to put it out and wait to tour and the hearts know how much I love touring. But 3 projects in a year is alot to hold them over and there is still a DK single coming this year so plenty to look forward to still. Just getting started.

idk how i feel about the DK reunion at all tbh - i loved them but i don't get any sense of unfinished business there at all (like i do with MKS). and it goes completely against the dawn richard solo brand - but then it's really not like that was getting massive amounts of traction, and weirdly i see more people hyped about DK (though it's not like DK happened at all over here, so maybe i'm underestimating how much people cared about them to start with?)

yeah Danity Kane's music feels very tied to that 2006-2008 period they existed in, in a way they seem like the last gasp of the R&B-as-pop era the Ariana Grande album harkens back to, it's a little hard to imagine what they consider 'their' sound that they want to return with (although apparently the single was produced by the same guys who did "Damaged" so maybe they're just trying to pick up exactly where they left off).

new song from dawn : http://www.rap-up.com/2013/11/04/new-music-dawn-richard-fade/

New Dawn Fades

production here is some shitty, knock-off Kid A shit. Absolute torture on headphones.

yeah Noisecastle III really let himself down here

is blackheart not happening or just paused until danity kane's album happens? seems like they're taking much longer than dawn normally would.