The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

i'm about to listen to the Kalenna in a bit, but I'm LOVING the new Dawn song. Much much better than #SMFU and December Sky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESodEc4s8YA

so ethereal. she really is just perfect

SFMU is better imo, but this is a pretty nice album cut

http://soundcloud.com/warhol2012/black-lipstick-dawn-richard

^^ a jam

man, this new dawn shit is too dope

was the kalenna mixtape any good? i couldn't get a copy that would open on my computer, for whatever reason

it's excellent - dawn's is prob better but "matte black truck", "pain & alcohol", "love rock", "ladder" and "put it in a bag" in particular are stunning

although setting dawn and kalenna against each other is probably unhelpful, they're superficially similar but actually quite different

i think my review should go up on fact at some point

I like the kalenna mixtape well enough but I am on #teamdawn xp

stop trolling dayo

lol what?

setting dawn and kalenna against each other is probably unhelpful
― lex pretend, Wednesday, February 22, 2012 11:51 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I am on #teamdawn
― flagp∞st (dayo), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 11:52 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh right. sorry - I didn't see that, was an xpost.

she wore black lipstick color in the game/leather jacket on collar high couldn't see her face/she ice skated on my heart couldn't feel the blade/think I'm colorblind cause I'm bleeding black and gray

<3

i love how kalenna responds to getting dumped by drink-driving and blasting wu-tang on not one but two separate songs

driving in the rain with the music loud
cup out the window, swag on kanye
going the wrong way, listening to wu-tang
cuz i'm feeling like a white girl on cocaine
took three vicodin, i feel strange
pushing 100, hitting curves in the rain
you shouldn't drive drunk with love on the brain

can we add kalenna to the thread title btw? think two separate threads would be a bit pointless

also: she ends that song singing from beyond the grave!

haha yeah. what's the other song with wu-tang? can't remember how it goes

"matte black truck"!

IF U LEAVE IMMA CRANK WU-TANG IN MY MATTE BLACK TRUCK, IN MY MATTE BLACK TRUCK
GOT MY RED CUP FILLED UP IN MY MATTE BLACK TRUCK, IN MY MATTE BLACK TRUCK

kalenna is basically the hotheaded yin to dawn's sensual yang

every time i listen to this mixtape i love it more - the desperate drunk final third is so EPIC

imma take my heart, put it in his hands
imma drop it low til i ca-can't stand
he all in my ear, now he in my head
and i'm drowning in the tears the patron gave me
love is in my lap, watch me throw it back
like a re-run, just call it a payback
my guardian angel, you stay close to me
they don't gotta know, but baby we got wings
hold on to my life
cuz we gonna fly tonight...

Didn't even know this thread *existed*.

Getting 'Chamber of Diaries' now, but Black Lipstick is wonderful and the most of either of their solo stuff that really FEELS like something that could fit into LTTP.

Kalenna's Feeling Good samples Avicii's 'Levels', right?

Hence the inverted title of "Good Feeling" as in the Etta sample from Levels that never actually appears in this song?

i have never heard "levels" and indeed i have never heard of avici

you've heard 'good feeling' by Flo Rida? It's the same sample?

It's the same sample. rather

haha i'm sure i must have heard it but not so much that i remember anything about it

can we add kalenna to the thread title btw? think two separate threads would be a bit pointless

― lex pretend, Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:43 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

should prolly add Dirty Money to the thread title too tbh

xp, you'd remember the sample if you heard it, if not anything else about either track

me and Brainwasher were talking last night about how dope it is that Dawn's new stuff seems really in tune with a lot of underground music right now

Bah why is all of this (i'm assuming) amazing music coming out at a time when my internet has died.

Black Lipstick is fantastic but I'm halfway through the Kalenna and not really feeling any of it, although I've got as far as Matte Black Truck and that's pretty good.

"Matte Black Truck" is the first song to really blow my mind this year, it basically transforms to a completely different song within the coruse of 3 mins, and it manages to be both an assertive, convincing club banger and an incredibly vulnerable midtempo (I feel like letting my guard down/And giving my all to you/No matter what cost it is). AMAZING song.

Okay this really kicks in after the first interlude.

yeah it definitely takes off after "matte black truck", the first third kind of clicked for me afterwards

so "matte black track"'s instrument melody is basically outkast - slump, right?

which is itself probably some other song that i don't know about

Kalenna mixtape sounding fantastic on first listen (odd fixations on Kanye and cocaine aside). I love the way that Kalenna and Dawn both seem to be running with what I can only describe as the Dirty Money aesthetic - simultaneously ostentatious and brutalist and melodramatic, like the music's emotional center is also is its rhythmic center and vice versa.

IF U LEAVE IMMA CRANK WU-TANG IN MY MATTE BLACK TRUCK, IN MY MATTE BLACK TRUCK
GOT MY RED CUP FILLED UP IN MY MATTE BLACK TRUCK, IN MY MATTE BLACK TRUCK

― lex pretend, Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:49 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

kinda sorta think this would be better than dawn's tape except that it has waaayyy to many random nonsense guests

I keep on getting distracted by name drops like weezy, drake

so obsessed with "Change" & "Black Lipstick" today

need to get ahold of this

"Matte Black Truck" really is such an astonishing song,

Its superiority vis a vis the rest of the Kalenna mixtape is partly because it is just so amazing, but also because (I feel) it's the moment where the album snaps totally into focus.

"Feeling Good", "The Ladder", "Love Rock", "The Morning After", "Pain & Alcohol" and "Party & Bullshit" (basically all the most Dawn-like moments actually!) are all pretty excellent. (obv a great batting average for a mixtape)

The rest I think can succumb to flashiness and brash(i)ness to varying degrees - "Put It In The Bag", "Go To Work" and "The Motto" still pretty good to great, "6000 Sistas" is irritating (as are the random nonsense guests). I suspect Kalenna (like Dawn) works best translating the Dirty Money vibe into a solo aesthetic, rather than trying to make 'Last Train To Paris' all by herself.

"december sky" has joined the continuous loop of "change"/"black lipstick"

FLY http://www.hulkshare.com/yc0w997or5gp

kind of ruptures the dawn/kalenna duality you guys are setting up. bangs, too.

"Change" and "Black Lipstick" (haven't heard "December Sky" or "Fly" yet) are so widescreen and epic it's ridic.

Each are an (increasingly rare) example of R&B borrowing liberally from dance music in the service of the forces of good.

Yeah but Last Train to Paris did that too, if in a different way and with different touchstones. "December Sky" and "Fly" are dissimilar to those songs, though. "December Sky" is more LTTP-ish and "Fly" is a Kalenna-style banger