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
Not that they're not otm.
Also getting some late 90s post peak 808 State vibes off this one.
― Tim F, Monday, 1 December 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
yeah really stop posting good music in December
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 December 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
is the next line "i'm dripping dreams in your cup"?? the contrast between the voices reminded me of shakespear's sister for a moment
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 2 December 2014 09:33 (nine years ago) link
let's be careless and vibe <3
(think that's what she's singing, if it isn't it should be)
― death in Skegness (seandalai), Wednesday, 3 December 2014 00:54 (nine years ago) link
fucking hell this album is just...making my head spin. where the hell is she getting these beats from? i never expected anything like this after the druski split, the DK fiasco etc.
bad news "physical" isn't on it (neither are "judith" or "valkyrie"), good news is that "physical" was a really good indication of what's going on here. the sonix are ridiculous but where goldenheart was heavy, this is so so light
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 17:40 (nine years ago) link
"swim free" is even more towa tei than "physical"
"adderall / sold" purports to be two songs in one but it's more like seven
we have a shameless equivalent of "faith" here as well
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
good news is that "physical" was a really good indication of what's going on here
oh mannnn
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Wednesday, 7 January 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
bf thought the outro sounded like aphex twin (i've never heard aphex twin so can't confirm or deny)
what the hell is going on with these incredible beats though
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
'physical' (and i'd imagine most of the album) was this guy again
https://twitter.com/noisecastleiii/status/539144414854017024https://soundcloud.com/noisecastleiii/sets/dawn-richard
seems to favour a skewed tinkering (also produced a lot of the jojo agape tape http://www.noisecastleiii.com/#!jojo/c1r8z), idm familiarity quite likely
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 18:35 (nine years ago) link
kinda funny/possibly instructive that if he was going for moroder with 'physical' then a lot of its appeal came from how he got it slightly "off" (hence japanesey pseudosimulacra vibe), presumably unintentionally
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 18:39 (nine years ago) link
;__; I want to hear this soooo bad I always associate DR with the middle of winter
― fgti, Wednesday, 7 January 2015 18:45 (nine years ago) link
this record is very weird
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 January 2015 06:53 (nine years ago) link
on itunes btw
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 January 2015 07:09 (nine years ago) link
thread of brad encountering difficulty in publicly appraising his new friend's record :)
― r|t|c, Thursday, 15 January 2015 08:52 (nine years ago) link
Dawn Richard / NEON retweetedJason Lipshutz @jasonlipshutz · 5h 5 hours agoImagine Animal Collective following "Sung Tongs" with a warm R&B album. That's what this @DawnRichard album sounds like. Unreal.
― r|t|c, Thursday, 15 January 2015 08:55 (nine years ago) link
i've never had such an enjoyable time having difficulty digesting a record
― j. winters (josh), Thursday, 15 January 2015 09:08 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FszEaxrHGTs
― prolego, Thursday, 15 January 2015 10:28 (nine years ago) link
right, now it's out there
1) i was so relieved because post-goldenheart everything seemed to be going a little awry: goldenheart itself didn't get any traction, the original blackheart lead singles were ok-ish but also pointed to dawn disappearing into her own mythology somewhat (also forgetting to write songs), the danity kane detour was a shambles even if the album was surprisingly excellent
2) blackheart's greatest accomplishment is probably the way it pulls itself out of the threatened dead-end, not by abandoning that mythology but by transforming it. it's so unexpected in the way it contrasts to goldenheart - light where GH was heavy, in permanent flux where GH was monolithic, shape-shifting where GH was implacable
3) still not over the beats, and how many ideas there are in them, and how restless they are, and how their constant shifts add to the feeling of instability, and how much she abandons traditional songcraft to let them tell the story
4) impeccably sequenced imo - opener jolts you upright, then one-third crazy busy electronics then one-third floating calm then one-third home stretch of obviousness
― lex pretend, Thursday, 15 January 2015 12:27 (nine years ago) link
what the fuck is 'calypso'?! so amazing.
― Nourry, Thursday, 15 January 2015 12:40 (nine years ago) link
GET THEE RIGHT / GET, GET THEE RIGHT
― lex pretend, Thursday, 15 January 2015 12:52 (nine years ago) link
"blow" sounds a gazillion times better than it did as a single - a new mix i think? it pops a lot more.
if "adderall/sold" is the album's grandiose centrepiece, "swim free" is probably its beating heart
"billie jean" reminds me of jojo's last mixtape, and they've worked together since...
― lex pretend, Thursday, 15 January 2015 12:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah "blow" works so much better within the context of the whole record
― j. winters (josh), Thursday, 15 January 2015 15:15 (nine years ago) link
well this and Reality Show are gonna be distracting me from last year overflow in a big way.
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 15 January 2015 15:35 (nine years ago) link
my characterization of it as "weird" last night is bc at the listening party last night she played basically all the craziest tracks in a row, plus both interludes for some reason. (she's incidentally very proud of "projection" and talked about how she was just listening to patches and drum sounds for like weeks in a row, and you can tell, it's soooo obliquely funky.)
i also feel v emotional about "warriors"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 January 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link