The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

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, 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.

(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)

(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)

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

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, 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.

Currently digging the Kate Bush vamping on "Lillies." This album does so many things in such a short span.

tryna figure out where the songs are, nothing's sticking with me.

http://thetalkhouse.com/talkhouse-playlist-dawn-richard/

it makes lots of sense that "little earthquakes" is her tori amos pick!

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!

it made my top ten

wow I did not see that Rachel Syme interviewed her (for p4k): http://pitchfork.com/features/interview/9795-the-indivisible-dwn/

love that she gives a shout-out to girlpool

Has she ever listened to Nona Hendryx's Skindiver?

I was always a nerd

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.

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

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

Nice piece, tipsy.

Thanks!

yeah very nice!

https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/2845

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/

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

So she's got a collaboration with David Longstreth (Dirty Projectors) coming out, according to his interview in Pitchfork

I shouldna doubted her - https://twitter.com/DawnRichard/status/823990273512353792

11 folks voted for her album in the Voice critics poll

are we going to talk about this or what

you mean this dirty projectors/dawn richard track? kicks ass

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/dirty_projectors-cool_your_heart_ft_dawn_richard_video

Love that Solange wrote this track

Dirty Projectors are real hit and miss with me but this is dope

Lol at Dave Longstreth's mastery of one facial expression in this video

i fuck with this

Video is unwatchable but the song is cool

when longstreth sings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ein57OSrqoA

I hear violence?

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/

You can listen to both "Hurricane" and "Van Gogh" here. "Van Gogh" is ace

https://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard

agreed on van gogh; lovely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5Zp5S-MPhM

i love this https://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/gravity

her tour starts in detroit on thursday!

7/13 Detroit
7/14 Chicago (Pitchfork Festival)
7/15 Toronto
7/17 Montreal
7/19 Portland
7/20 Boston
7/21 Philadelphia
7/22 Brooklyn

bk is long sold out, sadface

Another new one on Soundcloud today:
https://soundcloud.com/dawn_richard/maybe

Prefer this to Gravity, I think.

talked to dawn, wish i had thousands of words

https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2017/07/18/dawn-richard-edge-everything-and-controls/3jUuZEAKWARqhBwiRngPPK/story.html

She was excellent in her Pitchfork debut last Friday afternoon.

I am so bummed that I missed her! (And you!) Damn redeye jetlag. But she's playing down the block from me tomorrow, so.

you were there? Aw.

yay maura