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
budget biophilia, hmm
blackheart is out on 15 jan
― lex pretend, Saturday, 1 November 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
But the singer's affinity for fantasy doesn't stem from a book series or its corresponding HBO show. When Richard was a kid, she dissected the artwork of Austrian painter Gustav Klimt, studying his use of gold flakes in the 1901 work "Judith and the Head of Holofernes," based on the Biblical character of Judith. Richard was fascinated by the longing in Judith's gaze, existing underneath her beauty and the regal symbols encapsulating her face.
― I Love Makonnen: New Answers (The Reverend), Sunday, 2 November 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Gustav_Klimt_039.jpg/320px-Gustav_Klimt_039.jpg
― I Love Makonnen: New Answers (The Reverend), Sunday, 2 November 2014 22:07 (nine years ago) link
that makes TONS of sense really
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Monday, 3 November 2014 00:33 (nine years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/physical
idk where she gets these wonky ass beats from but for the first time in a long time i am v charmed
― r|t|c, Sunday, 30 November 2014 21:49 (nine years ago) link
this is so much better than "blow"
― j. winters (josh), Monday, 1 December 2014 08:33 (nine years ago) link
ok i really love this song
― r|t|c, Monday, 1 December 2014 13:39 (nine years ago) link
it's really good! i never warmed up to "blow" but she sounds so relaxed here (but not at the expense of the obsessiveness she does so well). love the tropical vibes. the vocal switch-up >>>>
― lex pretend, Monday, 1 December 2014 16:37 (nine years ago) link
the obvious thing finally hit me, peering at this song's nagelish sketch art as the strange melancholy jazz fusion chords exploded into breezy bubble economy "let's be careless and vibe yeah!" utopia - this is most surely a precision rendering of 90s japanese citypop, a such dawn very romance mr sparkles alternate reality
― r|t|c, Monday, 1 December 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
quite obsessed with it myself can u tell
― r|t|c, Monday, 1 December 2014 19:08 (nine years ago) link
this is most surely a precision rendering of 90s japanese citypop, a such dawn very romance mr sparkles alternate reality
hello i am listening to this now
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, 1 December 2014 19:10 (nine years ago) link
oh mannn
lol knew i could set my watch to that
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
― r|t|c, Monday, 1 December 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
That lil' flute thing is very Gran Turismo running in Demo Mode
― 龜, Monday, 1 December 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
this is excellent
― Face facts poptimism hacks, your a scam. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 December 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
it sounds like peak janet
― prolego, Monday, 1 December 2014 19:20 (nine years ago) link
purpose built next generation interstellar om'mas keith city pulse produced by towa tei can u feel me
― r|t|c, Monday, 1 December 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
Stop it with all this clickbait r|t|c.
― Tim F, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link