The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

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

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

That lil' flute thing is very Gran Turismo running in Demo Mode

this is excellent

it sounds like peak janet

purpose built next generation interstellar om'mas keith city pulse produced by towa tei can u feel me

Stop it with all this clickbait r|t|c.

Not that they're not otm.

Also getting some late 90s post peak 808 State vibes off this one.

yeah really stop posting good music in December

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

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

let's be careless and vibe <3

(think that's what she's singing, if it isn't it should be)

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

"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

good news is that "physical" was a really good indication of what's going on here

oh mannnn

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

'physical' (and i'd imagine most of the album) was this guy again

https://twitter.com/noisecastleiii/status/539144414854017024
https://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

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

;__; I want to hear this soooo bad I always associate DR with the middle of winter

this record is very weird

on itunes btw

thread of brad encountering difficulty in publicly appraising his new friend's record :)

Dawn Richard / NEON retweeted
Jason Lipshutz @jasonlipshutz · 5h 5 hours ago
Imagine Animal Collective following "Sung Tongs" with a warm R&B album. That's what this @DawnRichard album sounds like. Unreal.

i've never had such an enjoyable time having difficulty digesting a record

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

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

what the fuck is 'calypso'?! so amazing.

GET THEE RIGHT / GET, GET THEE RIGHT

"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...

yeah "blow" works so much better within the context of the whole record

well this and Reality Show are gonna be distracting me from last year overflow in a big way.

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"

I bought this last night right when it became available :) and she tweeted something about it scoring high on iTunes charts? hooray! can't listen until tonight though ugh

i predict u love it fgti

how was the listening party! was it well-attended etc.

it's strange, despite the almost wholesale abandonment of conventional song structure and only a few token concessions to the idea of pop, this is SO much more immediate than goldenheart

like i think it took me 3 months with goldenheart to get to where i am after a week-and-a-half with blackheart

for a small studio it was kinda packed. we also watched the video for "tide" before hearing the record; apparently "tide" is on vinyl copies of the record. also i got there early and she was just playing goldenheart tracks through these enormous speakers and man isn't "86" the most crushing song

dawn is supremely nice

it's strange, despite the almost wholesale abandonment of conventional song structure and only a few token concessions to the idea of pop, this is SO much more immediate than goldenheart

i was going to say exactly this

Getting strong Bjørk vibes from a couple of these tracks.

oh yeah that's right, dawn also described herself as "a girl from new orleans who grew up loving bjork"

yeah björk definitely came to mind at several points. i think vespertine-era most? it's quite difficult to pinpoint what i mean by "björkish" though

Getting strong Bjørk vibes from a couple of these tracks.

― longneck

Yep. "Billie Jean" plays as if Bjork had a go at the MJ concept.

it's the way these details sort of...bubble up out of the mix, the way the beats breathe. maybe it's actually medúlla-era björk, the shifting wonkiness of the beats and the organic feel?

is "billie jean" retelling the MJ story from her perspective? the narrative seems to obliquely nod at it but never makes it explicit

essentially it's a meditation on the mj idea of groupies from the perspective of groupies so yes

djp needs to hear this record immediately btw

Bjørk ca Homogenic - Vespertine I guess. It does make me wish she had hits like Bjørk to build on though. It would have made it so much easier to sell this to a wider audience.

omifuckinggod "Adderall"

speaking of MJ, "Adderall" is like "Morphine" on ludes.