druski's thing is out, can someone listen for me cos i cba
― r|t|c, Friday, 12 July 2013 13:56 (ten years ago) link
all moody piano ballads except for one reverby one iirc, on one slightly disappointed listen
apparently they had a falling out :(
― lex pretend, Friday, 12 July 2013 13:58 (ten years ago) link
sleek, stripped-down house! her head voice! yes!
http://www.thisisrnb.com/2013/07/new-music-dawn-richard-meteors/
― lex pretend, Monday, 15 July 2013 15:35 (ten years ago) link
This is awesome
― Evan R, Monday, 15 July 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
So I guess I'm not gonna miss Druski much after all. This blows away almost everything on Goldenheart
― Evan R, Monday, 15 July 2013 15:47 (ten years ago) link
killing shit in the pompadour arms race too:
http://www.thisisrnb.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Dawn-Richard-Meteors.jpg
― king of steens (some dude), Monday, 15 July 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
Kaleidoscope Dawn
― Evan R, Monday, 15 July 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
this is sharp, though perhaps a smidge linear. maybe next time get a new bridge for your song too ;)
― r|t|c, Monday, 15 July 2013 16:15 (ten years ago) link
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
― Tavis Emoji (some dude), Saturday, 20 July 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
might have to downgrade from 'alright' to 'ok' after hearing the accordion on "Sex In Paris"
― Tavis Emoji (some dude), Saturday, 20 July 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Monday, 19 August 2013 08:42 (ten years ago) link
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?!
― lex pretend, Monday, 19 August 2013 08:44 (ten years ago) link
"Valkyrie" is dope but ugh guest rapper get thee gone
― some dude, Monday, 19 August 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
Those are both really good. Wish Goldenheart had included some of these newer tracks; it could have used the variety
― Evan R, Monday, 19 August 2013 13:14 (ten years ago) link
"Judith" is incredible, I am really digging the dialing down of the intentional autotune overdrive to allow the real colors of her voice through
― OH MY GOD HE'S OOGLY (DJP), Monday, 19 August 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
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
― r|t|c, Monday, 19 August 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link
"Judith" is gorgeous
― s. cloverlandthug (The Reverend), Monday, 19 August 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
they're both impressive in their own ways but i can understand people's reservations. i remain optimistic.
― dyl, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 03:25 (ten years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 09:30 (ten years ago) link
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.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 09:45 (ten years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 20 August 2013 09:46 (ten years ago) link
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.
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 08:54 (ten years ago) link
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?)
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 08:56 (ten years ago) link
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).
― some dude, Wednesday, 11 September 2013 10:22 (ten years ago) link
new song from dawn : http://www.rap-up.com/2013/11/04/new-music-dawn-richard-fade/
― rusty_allen, Monday, 4 November 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
New Dawn Fades
― Euler, Monday, 4 November 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
production here is some shitty, knock-off Kid A shit. Absolute torture on headphones.
― Evan R, Monday, 4 November 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
yeah Noisecastle III really let himself down here
― r|t|c, Monday, 4 November 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
is blackheart not happening or just paused until danity kane's album happens? seems like they're taking much longer than dawn normally would.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 5 November 2013 14:26 (ten years ago) link
If someone has to make a 'Cincinatti Fever' bootleg out of Dawn one-off soundcloud tracks can we please call it 'False Dawn'?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 20:06 (ten years ago) link
no it has to be called cincinatti fever
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 November 2013 20:45 (ten years ago) link
Teflon Dawn
― some dude, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
― Evan R, Monday, November 4, 2013 12:53 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
well it kind of sounds like if goldenheart had been mastered like a tell tale heart
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 22:33 (ten years ago) link
i liked that track
― some dude, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 22:35 (ten years ago) link
yeah that track hardly seems the jumping off point if you wanna get off the dawn treader... let's wait until the drake collabo
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 5 November 2013 22:53 (ten years ago) link
if you wanna get off the dawn treader...
excellent work
― Tim F, Wednesday, 6 November 2013 05:47 (ten years ago) link
I'm impressed that dawned on him
― old homophobic boom bap rap traditionalist (The Reverend), Wednesday, 6 November 2013 06:45 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/dawn-richard-love
― mums go off when i enter the building (monotony), Sunday, 1 December 2013 00:17 (ten years ago) link
http://www.vibe.com/article/premiere-maya-vik-feat-dawn-richard-teen-spirit
― longneck, Thursday, 5 December 2013 20:38 (ten years ago) link
better late than never?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASvFzi4OOes
― lex pretend, Thursday, 2 January 2014 11:20 (ten years ago) link
hope + pray for an extended version of 'heaven' somewhere down the line for the full quentin harris experience
― r|t|c, Thursday, 29 March 2012 01:36 Bookmark
fiat (p meh tbh) lux: http://soundcloud.com/quentin_harris/dawn-richards-heaven-knows
― r|t|c, Thursday, 2 January 2014 11:43 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/levitate
― prolego, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:01 (ten years ago) link
this album hitting me like a bulldozer atm.
― Spottie, Friday, 14 February 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link
Armor On is such an interesting album, but I prefer LTTP. The production on both of these is so overwhelming. *cries*I need to give Goldenheart more spins.
― jay., Friday, 14 February 2014 22:58 (ten years ago) link
goldenheart production >>>
― Spottie, Friday, 14 February 2014 23:06 (ten years ago) link
This is so good
https://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/dawn-richard-dark-horse
― Evan R, Thursday, 27 February 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
well, "lemonade" is a banger, in an obvious kind of way
http://www.rap-up.com/2014/05/14/new-music-danity-kane-f-tyga-lemonade/
― lex pretend, Thursday, 15 May 2014 10:12 (nine years ago) link
i mean, it's worth it if this reformation actually smashes, but it doesn't seem like dawn's going to bring her own ideas to it as such
― lex pretend, Thursday, 15 May 2014 10:15 (nine years ago) link
this is greatin an obvious way indeed
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 May 2014 03:25 (nine years ago) link
and now dk3 is out of the way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TGrh-5Mnjw
― prolego, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 13:50 (nine years ago) link