The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

imo the vinyl era concept of an 'album' works best if for no other reason than 40 or so minutes is just enough to feel like a meal without leaving much room to drag. 'double albums' that are longer than that but in some sense have discrete halves can feel overlong, but at least there's a clear point at which you can split it into 2 sittings, and maybe regard each one as its own entity. CD-era 60-80 minute albums that don't aim for any kind of double-album-ness tend to have the biggest problems with just sagging in the middle or wearing you down by the end. those kinds of things made/make sense for big artists who might only make an album every 2-4 years and each one is a huge production with dozens of tracks recorded and discarded, but i feel like for everyone else, it's better to do lots of releases and keep them short.

an album that has good songs all the way through but is organized so that i'm less able to appreciate how good the stuff at the end if i listen to it all in one run has a fatal flaw imo

not that that's an issue with Goldenheart per se -- if anything the second half is where it all comes together for me

the album is too long but in a good way - imo its sequencing is one of its biggest strengths, i find it very difficult to pick out bite-size chunks to consume - it really does demand your attention as a fully-formed body of work. and sometimes you just want bite-size chunks but it's not having any of that. it's def not a convenient album.

honestly can't think of a single thing i'd alter about the sequencing or track listing; it was actually made longer than intended, "riot" was originally a bonus track, but even that change benefits it imo

it's as much that immersion in a single sonic vision like this for such a long time is kinda rare for r&b.

― Tim F, Friday, March 8, 2013 11:21 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is otm

http://dawnrichard.tumblr.com/post/45241592418/new-music-just-for-my-hearts-bumbum

SWIZZY

love this

dope

worst threat to the album's rep is if she just keeps dropping stray tracks throughout the year that work better as standalone tracks than most of Goldenheart

agree but for the moment she's keeping it to stuff that's obviously just lying around and that only works as a giveaway - like "bum bum" is v fun but it's just a swizzified "lost ones" that would be disappointing if part of a proper release

pretty funny how "love on the rocks" nails the current mike will made it aesthetic so casually though

it's like dawn is just going "u know i could do this if i wanted"

wow I love the way the vocals fragments crystallize into a wall of solid info at the end

worst threat to the album's rep is if she just keeps dropping stray tracks throughout the year that work better as standalone tracks than most of Goldenheart

― some dude, Wednesday, March 13, 2013 9:17 AM Bookmark

word

this is great

haven't listened to this new thing yet but I put Goldenheart on while cleaning the house and basically this is fucking fantastic shit

https://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/empty-room

holy shit#@!ESF@!#

tangential, but i've been listening heavy to both Stacey Barthe albums. really great stuff.
new single dayo posted is great too; really looking forward to the new album
dan, did you burn out on goldenheart? took me over a month.

I still totally fuck with Goldenheart

respect respect
i may be due for another run

I've been realizing there's that certain pingy synth sound at the beginning of this that I associate with progressive house that I cannot deal with at all. Pops up a few times on Goldenheart too. This song is really good tho! I just cringed at the intro.

Rev I completely agree with you about liking the Winter EP more than Goldenheart; in my estimate, there's something very free and spontaneous and rule-breaking about those songs whereas Goldenheart feels a little stiff from adhering to the template

Yeah, I hadn't really thought about it in those terms, but something about Goldenheart does feel a bit...studied.

still listening to goldenheart a lot, still feel it opens up a little more and in a different way every time

"return of a queen" is a fucking imperious monster of a song

dawn has a feature on the new eve album

https://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/northern-lights-f-eve

eve features on the new dawn single.

I want Dawn's next step to be a cover of "Accidental Racist"

lol i am not shocked that you are #1 fan of that horse turd, it's been on my mind too

"Break of Dawn" came up on shuffle and I hadn't realized just how insipid it is til now. Feels about two hours long in its own right. :/

worst threat to the album's rep is if she just keeps dropping stray tracks throughout the year that work better as standalone tracks than most of Goldenheart

― some dude, Wednesday, March 13, 2013 9:17 AM Bookmark

definitely thinking now that the album could've used the lyric "let's fuck on this bed of roses"
https://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/movie

she never drew first but she drew first blood

it's getting to the stage where it's a real shame she's just dropping tracks of this quality randomly and individually, "empty room" and "movie" in particular are pretty stunning, could've made for a pretty great stopgap mixtape/EP

yeah it'll be interesting to see if these get collected in any official/retail form, i wonder if this is like Whiteout where it's stuff all done after the album that she's impatient to let people hear.

i've only been paying cursory attention but i think some of them have been old old stuff, from the a telltale heart era or before, and maybe others are just stuff she's been doing recently that she feels won't fit on to blackheart...

i think it was insinuated on her tumblr that some of these are actually *old* tracks

yeah, people are commenting along the lines of "oh man, i'm glad to hear this cleaned up finally!"

playing nyc on the 28 - anybody else going?

Where? With who?

gramercy something, check the tumblr

ah gramercy theater. it's a live nation venue but a reasonable price. yeah, i'm gonna want to get in on that.

and another one : http://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/dawn-richard-army

https://soundcloud.com/drewscotty/skywalker

first track from Druski's debut EP out in July w/ featured vocals from Dawn.

think my goodwill has run out with these two. get your shit together u dolorous drips

Dawn needs some baby dragons.

― Tim F, Friday, 8 March 2013 11:43 (3 months ago) Bookmark

srsly

mmm this is not what i was really expecting or wanting

the danity kane reunion rumours floating around are odd, it really doesn't seem to fit in with dawn's uh ~branding~ and she's still talking about the trilogy?

honestly if they just want to do something together without diddy telling them whether they're a group or not just because they want to i think that's kind of sweet.

oh don't get me wrong i'd be very pro a DK reunion, i was a fan! i just don't really see how it would fit in with dawn's solo career unless it was just, like, a one-off single?

that seems like a weird question given how much music she's released in the space of a year recently

BlackHeart is out October 7, 2013. Apparently she's working with an entirely new team and according to her Twitter, there are no collaborations with Druski on the album at all...

The Riot/Northern Lights video is also cancelled due to a change in team... Not sure what's up. But things seem to still be moving forward.

are the stray tracks that have come out in the last few months Druski productions? it'd be such a shame if those never end up on an album or EP.

Didn't she say before that she's been saving tracks for BlackHeart and uh... RedemptionHeart or whatever the hell it was?