The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

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"

thank god for this record arriving when we needed it

Haven't been as excited about a new album and talking about it on here since this one.

yeah this is great on contact so far

This is so fucking good.

yeah, this is.

Compared to Blackheart? (I'm out and can't hear the stream yet)

I'm going to wait until next week, I have a feeling this is going to require more bass and sonic detail than an NPR stream is going to offer.

holy shit @ this

what the hell is 'LA' and how can we get it in pill form

It feels like this is the first time the weight wasn't so heavy, so the process was calmer, the pace was slower. I knew the Red Era would be a bit different because shit started happening in the world. Goldenheart and Blackheart were more personal

Lex just got a really nice shoutout on her iG

For this, I assume?
http://www.thenational.ae/arts-life/music/review-redemption-by-dawn-richard--a-defiant-statement-from-the-underground-dance-queen

Just listened to the first quarter of this stone cold sober and it pretty much made me want to chew my face off. The best Dawn has always been where she's combining junglist sensibility with gooey melodies and intense rushiness and all three elements are all over this.

Wasn't expecting the rock guitars on LA either but pretty much everything here works.

I <3 DR so hard

that is all

'The Louvr'e is astonishing, as is virtually the whole record. Only 'Hey Nikki' overstays its welcome, and that's one of the shorter tracks.

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The best Dawn has always been where she's combining junglist sensibility with gooey melodies and intense rushiness

http://i.imgur.com/EjQzLsA.gif

I'm using 'junglist' very loosely there, most of her records have at least one track when her vocals are playing off against skittering rhythms, none of this stuff is remotely jungle in a kpunk.xls way but there are a lot of drums that you can follow like their own melodic lines. Plus she's working with Machinedrum who was up to his neck in fake jungle a couple of years back.

can't we all just enjoy this record as clueless laypeople

seriously finding it hard to listen to this without going back and replaying LA over and over again. and that's no slight on the rest

this album is sick

TBH automatically equating rhythmic complexity with jungle would piss me off as well in a different mood. But I've been listening to 'Black Crimes' on repeat and what she does with the snares is less interesting than what she does with the kicks, the song goes through at least two changes of meter and its difficult to think of many four minute R&B songs that go through as many rhythmic permutations.

Her lyrics are markedly different to the last few records as well - a lot of the fantasy/comic book nerd stuff has gone straight in the bin.

Even as far back as "Black Lipstick" there was a pronounced jungle influence in some of her stuff.

Does Lex still post here? There have been a bunch of albums this year I wanted to hear his opinion on

Haven't heard anything since "Goldenheart" - I must be massively missing out. Excited to hear this!

The last two albums are way better than Goldenheart!

I think Goldenheart sounds a lot better now that she's moved on from it a bit and it can be enjoyed as a series of mostly great songs rather than her defining ~statement~. I'd rank it behind Blackheart and Redemption, but not by much.