The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

good interview

It's hard out there for a carpenter

great interview! glad it's all finally happening in terms of critical attention at least

there's been quite a lot to be suspicious of aesthetically recently (...the name change) but otoh "dance", "hollywould" and "not above that" are all fucking great. also she's working with jimmy edgar??? i hope there's no tuning down of anything, i hope it's the rawest house banger he can do

in june she's coming to portugal and i will see her live for the first time. i still can't believe it will happen.

I have no idea what this is on about, but you probably do:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/18/11451170/first-youtube-360-video-live-stream-date-dawn-richard-verge

At one point she was scheduled to play in Minneapolis two days ago. Weird now to imagine what that would've been like.

new song, up on spotify too
https://soundcloud.com/fadetomind/dawn-richard-honest

p4k really aiming for Pseud's Corner this week with their Best New Track review. Not wrong though.

EP is out
https://soundcloud.com/fadetomind/sets/dawn-richard-infrared-ep/s-YB2m5

This is beautiful...so smooth and introspective and much more pared-back than Blackheart. That said, I've come away feeling massively depressed. There's a lot of hopelessness in these lyrics and no soaring, triumphant tracks to take the edge off (a la Phoenix, Warriors etc). I'm fine with bleak, but this is crushingly so. Even 'How I Get It', which is ostensibly empowering in and of itself (and probably my favourite here), feels very sad sandwiched between these two songs about relationship futility. What I'm saying sounds like nonsense...obviously art shouldn't only be coming from a good place, and it's probably just the mood I am in right now, but there's an undercurrent here that I find utterly stultifying.

The EP really clicked on the third time through for me. I don't hear it as hopeless, really -- it ends with baptism. I think it's pretty clearly a set-up for the album. But it's a nice little mood piece on its own.

Wake up, ILM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idiVPFaULJ0

love "not above that" a ton but it took a while to get to that point; "wake up" sounds like it could follow the same path. not into the ep at all, airless and dry like everything kingdom's done for years now, but i guess i'm fine with a minor whiteout-style thing to hold us over to the actual album

who's seeing dawn at berghain http://berghain.de/event/1629

I am. very much looking forward to it.

berghain huh!

it's in Kantine am Berghain not Berghain proper. small building adjacent to Berghain is more accurate, but it's a decent enough place to see a show.

That FACT AOTY could be the worst thing to happen to Dawn if she starts deliberately pandering to that audience. WAY too soon to give up and go full #cassiefanclub on us.

if one was actually going to be concerned that SHE KNOWS NERDS ARE LISTENING OH NO surely that time would have come well before Blackheart

Depends on the kind of nerd.

d triangle wn is already pandering full-bore but the music's still pretty good

'pandering' is a strong word but yeah. if she was just making Keri Hilson songs to begin with we wouldn't have gotten here, but i'm just generally weary of 'the wrong kind of success will spoil their once pure artistic expression' meta anxiety.

'Success' is a pretty strong word in this context but collaborating with Night Slugs landfill is going to lead to some pretty boring music.

oh we nearly on my page yet.

http://www.adultswim.com/music/singles-2016/

That's pretty excellent, in a spacey way. I think I like her sonics as much as her songwriting.

Definitely, her visuals too. Just a great aesthetic all around.

did anyone see her in london? i'm going to see her tonight in lisbon and i can't really believe that this will happen.

yeah she was really amazing, even better than last time. exultant energy start to finish, a really surprising setlist inc "meteors" and "james dean". still in awe of her pulling off "calypso" live. (she only did "calypso", "blow" and "titans" off blackheart!)

she's releasing so much stuff these days it's hard to keep up but i'm really into "lemonade lakes"

https://soundcloud.com/oshi/lemonade-lakes-2

i don't think i can get the virtual reality video for "not above that" to work properly though

i guess she plays a lot of new stuff.
i would really love to see her play 'black lipstick'...

oh yeah extended version of "dance" that stretched the outro out to the proper drumming frenzy it should've been on record

saw a small clip of the virtual reality video on Dawn's Instagram. Nice

"Black Lipstick" is still probably my favorite song of hers

She was so amazing. And such a sweet and generous person. Really awesome.

http://www.vevo.com/watch/USQX91601303

On streaming services, the song is longer than here.

Sometimes I think it’d be better if I could cater to art and stick to art. But then I wouldn’t be the CEO either. I like being in charge

pretty hyped about this.

I went back to Armor On last week; it's still stunning.

OK, officially excited now. The last minute drags a bit with too much repetition (and the climactic build doesn't quite reach the peak of euphoria it should) but up until around the 2'30" mark this is bangin'

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Goddammit. Link: https://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/dwn-renegades

this is great

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CuLoLYbUAAEBP0M.jpg

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/10/500998628/first-listen-d-wn-redemption

for the love of god please be very very very good; I'd appreciate it.

it is

oh thanks. i gotta wait another few hours to have the space but that's something to look forward to.

she's never really done anything like "la" before

it starts out as the expected inverse club-oriented album to blackheart's mostly introspective shapeshifting but on "la" it digresses pretty hard, and then again around "vines"