haha post with r|t|c I guess.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 11:50 (seven years ago) link
lol rtc
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 12:01 (seven years ago) link
I've been assuming that Dawn has had A LOT of input into the beats here, like I have no real idea which bits are Machinedrum-produced and which aren't.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 12:04 (seven years ago) link
I wouldn't suggest that she doesn't, but a lot of these beats bear heavy resemblance to the recent Machinedrum album, to the point where I tend to assume that Dawn quite deliberately brought in his "sound" on several tracks.
but yeah the actual production credits don't necessarily breakdown the way I might expect.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 12:09 (seven years ago) link
I'm not sure I've heard anything recently like "The Louvre." It's part of a chain of songs by women in which her character wanders landscapes while other people do their routines and she loses her mind (Suzanne Vega's "In Liverpool," Aimee Mann's "Fourth of July"), but the arrangement – wow. Those violins: lightness and dread.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 12:20 (seven years ago) link
I don't think there's that much resemblance between Redemption and solo Machinedrum - not compared to "Not Above That" and "Wake Up", certainly
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 12:25 (seven years ago) link
Well yeah the difference is that Redemption is like actual songs
― Tim F, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 12:32 (seven years ago) link
That's not fair: "Not Above That" is a perfectly decent real song, but it feels very distant from the rest of Dawn's solo work. Hearing Dawn be an R&B "siren" is weird.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 12:34 (seven years ago) link
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, November 29, 2016 12:20 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's a pretty unique inversion of both the trad r&b bedroom jam and the art gallery crossover experiment: it sounds like she's wandering the Louvre but the actual narrative takes place in private; it's in lieu of putting her lover on display that Dawn arranges the song as if she had. And it brings it back to the devotional songs on Armor On, "Heaven" and "Scripture", where she's kneeling to this idea of love that's equivalent to religious faith or artistic rapture.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link
(I love how you can group Dawn songs by thematic or sonic connection through her albums, as well as in the albums themselves, kind of like her discography works on two axes. Like how "Billie Jean" and "Hey Nikki" are obviously a pair but you could expand that to "James Dean" as well etc etc)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
(The other great thing about Dawn's character songs like those three is that she might retell modern myths from different perspectives but it's never the straightforward or expected one - not inversions but subtle shifts in angle. Like "Hey Nikki" could've so easily just been "Darling Nikki"...but from HER PERSPECTIVE!!!111 - but it's just fleshing her out by approaching her with more awe and reverence)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 16:51 (seven years ago) link
something i wrote in my review but that got cut is the way the chorus of "hey nikki" sounds kind of submerged makes it feel like it's "darling nikki" actively bleeding into her song
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 16:57 (seven years ago) link
― Tim F, 29. november 2016 12:34 (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Well, Maya Vik of Young Michael Douglas fame wrote it, and it feels very much like a Maya Vik song to me, at least.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
Currently digging the Kate Bush vamping on "Lillies." This album does so many things in such a short span.
― birthday party, cheesecake, jelly beans, boom (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 1 December 2016 04:12 (seven years ago) link
tryna figure out where the songs are, nothing's sticking with me.
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 09:14 (seven years ago) link
http://thetalkhouse.com/talkhouse-playlist-dawn-richard/
it makes lots of sense that "little earthquakes" is her tori amos pick!
― lex pretend, Saturday, 17 December 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link
What a lovely and telling playlist!
After half a dozen listens this album is beginning to surpass Blackheart for me and rise to near the top of my favourites this year. I love everything about it and her. Such energy!
― dance band (tangenttangent), Saturday, 17 December 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
it made my top ten
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 17 December 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
wow I did not see that Rachel Syme interviewed her (for p4k): http://pitchfork.com/features/interview/9795-the-indivisible-dwn/
― Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Thursday, 22 December 2016 05:55 (seven years ago) link
love that she gives a shout-out to girlpool
― Wozniak on Kimye's Baby (jaymc), Thursday, 22 December 2016 05:57 (seven years ago) link
Has she ever listened to Nona Hendryx's Skindiver?
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Monday, 26 December 2016 07:34 (seven years ago) link
I was always a nerd
― Jeff W, Saturday, 7 January 2017 13:23 (seven years ago) link
Lots of celebrities say things like that -- I was a nerd, I was a geek -- and I'm sure it's true for some number of them. But Dawn's nerd cred is pretty undeniable. Not many people have named a band after their own anime character.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 7 January 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link
Also, reading that made me finally finish the review of Redemption I started a while ago, so fwiw it's here: http://bit.ly/2jnV2z4
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 7 January 2017 18:55 (seven years ago) link
ive been listening to this album a tonne in the past week. so many good tracks it's hard to pick a favorite. hell even valhalla has one of my favorite moments of the album on it
― just another (diamonddave85), Saturday, 7 January 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
Nice piece, tipsy.
― Jeff W, Saturday, 7 January 2017 21:01 (seven years ago) link
Thanks!
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 7 January 2017 23:26 (seven years ago) link
yeah very nice!
― lex pretend, Sunday, 8 January 2017 11:16 (seven years ago) link
https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2845
― A big shout out goes to the lamb chops, thos lamb chops (ulysses), Thursday, 19 January 2017 15:19 (seven years ago) link
If you liked 'Infrared' from last year, there's a whole lot more of it coming:http://singersroom.com/content/2017-01-17/dawn-richard-paint-blue-rizzla-remix/
― Jeff W, Friday, 20 January 2017 13:51 (seven years ago) link
There's also a remix of "Vines" up on soundcloud:https://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/dawn-vines-remix
oh and a CD of Redemption with "unreleased bonus tracks" (more remixes?) coming in Feb, I gather
― Jeff W, Friday, 20 January 2017 13:54 (seven years ago) link
So she's got a collaboration with David Longstreth (Dirty Projectors) coming out, according to his interview in Pitchfork
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 20:55 (seven years ago) link
I shouldna doubted her - https://twitter.com/DawnRichard/status/823990273512353792
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 21:00 (seven years ago) link
11 folks voted for her album in the Voice critics poll
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 25 January 2017 21:05 (seven years ago) link
are we going to talk about this or what
― suggest bannon (||||||||), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 20:24 (seven years ago) link
you mean this dirty projectors/dawn richard track? kicks ass
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 20:34 (seven years ago) link
http://exclaim.ca/music/article/dirty_projectors-cool_your_heart_ft_dawn_richard_video
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 20:38 (seven years ago) link
Love that Solange wrote this track
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 21:05 (seven years ago) link
Dirty Projectors are real hit and miss with me but this is dope
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 21:15 (seven years ago) link
Lol at Dave Longstreth's mastery of one facial expression in this video
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 20:05 (seven years ago) link
i fuck with this
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 8 February 2017 20:10 (seven years ago) link
Video is unwatchable but the song is cool
― Spottie, Wednesday, 8 February 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link
when longstreth singshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ein57OSrqoA
― suggest bannon (||||||||), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 20:45 (seven years ago) link
I hear violence?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 8 February 2017 20:45 (seven years ago) link
Redemption is out on CD and vinyl as of last Monday (in the UK anyways). More accurately, the title RedemptionHeart appears to have been revived for the physical release.
The CD has two previously unreleased bonus tracks, "Hurricane" and "Van Gogh". The latter sounds like a keeper judging by the clips on Juno:http://www.juno.co.uk/products/dawn-richard-redemption/637147-01/
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 22 February 2017 21:10 (seven years ago) link
You can listen to both "Hurricane" and "Van Gogh" here. "Van Gogh" is ace
https://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Friday, 17 March 2017 00:52 (seven years ago) link
agreed on van gogh; lovely.
― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Friday, 17 March 2017 18:56 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Zp5S-MPhM
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 17:58 (seven years ago) link
i love this https://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/gravity
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Saturday, 8 July 2017 16:47 (six years ago) link
her tour starts in detroit on thursday!
― maura, Saturday, 8 July 2017 18:05 (six years ago) link