The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

song. half the comments on the youtube are complaints from fans who don't get it

surely her actual fans have had the song for 5 months already tho? i can see why it'd be divisive to casuals or the danity kane fandom remnant but oh well

Titans x new single James Dean

https://youtu.be/qUmi3F5gau0

this video RULES

i almost missed this because of wacky name change but she's playing PS1's Warm Up series in August with Matias Aguayo and Murlo
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/warm-up-matias-aguayo-kingdom-dwn-murlo-false-witness-tickets-17086988643

James Dean is pretty good!

i'm glad the "titan" video goes back to her dance roots, but at the same time, i'm sad we came /this close/ to a "warriors" vid and didn't get it. "james dean" is good tho

"james dean" is amazing

so what does one wear to a Dawn Richard gig?

You dress well.

mirrored surfaces imo

deconstruct yourself into a dodecahedron sliced into a thousand equivalent pieces

^^ also sound life advice

omg lex: https://twitter.com/DawnRichard/status/605889279949012992

nice.

Not included in Lex's rapturous rundown, her version of 'Champagne Supernova'.

punching myself in the face as i type but tbh that is quite an apt cover actually, turned inward to interrogate self-reinvention/abnegation

wake up the dawn and ask her why, a dreamer dreams she never dies #neverthesubtlest

new song coming in three days courtesy of the Adult Swim Singles series

And here it is

https://twitter.com/DawnRichard/status/607931331557752832

After announcing this season's lineup for their acclaimed Singles program, Adult Swim is back today to share a new track from D∆WN (formerly Dawn Richard) today to kick off this year's program. "Running From Sane" finds the former Danity Kane/Dirty Money member at her most experimental - featuring a near 2-minute instrumental passage before she takes command of the track with her signature vocals.

Over/under on how long until she abandons the D∆WN moniker and goes back to Dawn Richard?

after D∆NITY KAN3 runs its course

I just received the 5.4-inch floppy drive with the symbols!

i dunno about this adult swim track exactly

it's kind of whatever

Like everything she's done since Armor On, it's nice but underwhelming.

Her career bums me out. She's so talented, but also seems to have no direction. She just tosses music and projects out there, hoping something will stick, w/o ever throwing her full weight behind a single project.

Like everything she's done since Armor On, it's nice but underwhelming.

:|

Blackheart is fully realized and her best album to date.

This track is closer to the overtones of Goldenheart

http://www.lovebscott.com/news/dawn-talks-new-music-new-projects-owning-her-new-look-show

“I’m super excited because Ester Dean has the first single. I had an opportunity to really stretch my wings out and I’m gonna bring it back home to what I’ve done mainstream-wise and what I’ve done commercially as a writer and really work with Ester Dean to get a big smash. She’s got me with this monster [hit], so we’re gonna release that. Look for our Summer release of that.

She just tosses music and projects out there

I wholly disagree, I think she and her producers are exploring the shared space between art-pop and R&B, and it's mostly unexplored territory and there's a lot of ground to cover, a lot of possibilities.

I smh at people who prefer Blackheart to Goldenheart, but maintain that it's a mix- or master- issue. Goldenheart is perfect songs throughout, but is mixed and mastered like a Bon Iver record, all space and no pressure. Blackheart is all pressure and bop but has such a weak front-half that I'm amazed that people even compare the two.

Also I may have already said this but stop if you don't want the song changed forever once you notice Dawn dropping her consonants on "The Deep" you're always gonna hear it as "I took it to the D" which is a fun line to get in your head at some points in your day

Blackheart is fully realized and her best album to date.

This track is closer to the overtones of Goldenheart

eh nah it's like an underwritten blackheart track

anyway fgti otm even though i do prefer blackheart, and the front half has fucking adderall/sold

The front half of Blackheart is maybe the best music she's ever made on her own.

I know that the main reason I like "Calypso" so much is because of the rampant Twin Peaks sampling but still, I really really REALLY like it.

we're almost halfway in and it's still in my top four albums of the year

it's highly possible that blackheart will end up being my favorite album of the year

Goldenheart is perfect songs throughout, but is mixed and mastered like a Bon Iver record, all space and no pressure. Blackheart is all pressure and bop but has such a weak front-half that I'm amazed that people even compare the two.

None or this is true at all! In what way does Pretty Wicked Things have more space than Swim Free? The main problem with Goldenheart is sequencing, its pace is just wearying.

One of the reasons I dislike Blow is that it feels about a third slower than it should be, it hits that laboured trudging pace that Dawn employs for so much of Goldenheart.

I know that the main reason I like "Calypso" so much is because of the rampant Twin Peaks sampling but still, I really really REALLY like it.

― DJP, Thursday, June 11, 2015 4:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

for me it's the glitchy robotic vocoder parts

always think of this http://i.imgur.com/2tuQ06f.jpg

Not that the album form needed saving for me but "Blackheart" is the strongest statement on its behalf I've heard in a few years.

Dawn performing in a Targé Ménage live session for BBC 1extra last night with Bonkaz:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02v409j

Video clips on her Twitter feed as well.

THE RED ERA IS COMING https://twitter.com/DawnRichard/status/615723722901602305

yow

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

^namedropping biff naked, missy and the cranberries there

https://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/dwn-roses

RED ERA, MOTHERFUCKERS

if it's all this sumptuous, I might just float off into the cosmos

well this is exciting