The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

new era starts tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/ubFfqNP8cq

— DAWN (@DawnRichard) November 4, 2019

i am into it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGHfca-ZRWM

these sound amazing, as usual

“Slim Thicc”>”Ay Papi”

"Easy" on adult swim is prob the best new song of the latest bunch
https://www.adultswim.com/music/singles/2

Two new songs just popped up on bandcamp - "Die Without You" and "Buttah"

spotify too

both great. guitar in "Die Without You" has a "Street Spirit" vibe imo

Just caught up with her collaborative EP (?) (9 tracks, 15 mins long) with Intyce, titled ‘Psyflo : Risqué’ . It dropped about a month ago to little fanfare and I can’t find very much about it online. It’s good, the beats work really well with Dawn’s signature style. Possibly my favourite thing she’s done in a couple of years at least.

Thanks for the heads-up, had missed this. Don’t know who Intyce is, but I’m very eager to check this out.

same, i had no idea it existed!

this is outstanding; i suppose the lack of some cleared samples (the super mario ones at least) and the somewhat undeveloped nature of the tracks (most of the songs are under two minutes) suggest this is more of a rough draft than a finished project, which explains why she's been quiet about this.
this may be obvious but the overall vibe is very Darkchild and yes that's very fine by me.

forks, not sure I get your reference. Darkchild as in producer Rodney Jerkins, or are you talking about a certain dark child with a Blackheart by any chance?

Either way, it’s good stuff, but ‘undeveloped’ is right - I need more than 1’45 for those tracks.

was referencing Jerkins; this makes me think of his work with Brandy

okay, I wouldn’t have guessed!
itt Reading Ulysses the wrong way

yes you will yes i said yes

EXCITING NEWS Y'ALL 🥁 @DawnRichard joins Merge Records family, to release new album in 2021

⚜️ https://t.co/oz9RlAxbWL pic.twitter.com/EiUJ98oOSs

— Merge Records (@mergerecords) January 21, 2021

wow!!!!!

Someone mentioned that she is likely the only artist to have been signed to both Bad Boy and Merge

"Album details to come very soon" according to the press release!

wow

it makes a fair bit of sense, good for all concerned!

Here we go. Also, Holy Shit!

sec·ond line
1.a battle line behind the front line to support it and make good its losses.
2.a tradition in parades organized by Social Clubs in New Orelans.
– a wild, strutting dance step to carry participants forward in pace with the beat.
Welcome to the electro revival pic.twitter.com/Xctm2BLbW2

— DAWN (@DawnRichard) February 15, 2021

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

oh my goodness

And it's up for preorder:

https://dawnrichard.bandcamp.com/album/second-line

1.
King Creole (Intro)
2.
Nostalgia
3.
Boomerang
4.
Bussifame
5.
Pressure
6.
Pilot (a lude)
7.
Jacuzzi
8.
FiveOhFour (a lude)
9.
Voodoo (Intermission)
10.
Mornin | Streetlights
11.
Le Petit Morte (a lude)
12.
Radio Free
13.
The Potter
14.
Perfect Storm
15.
Voodoo (Outermission)
16.
SELFish (Outro)

holy shit "bussifame"

More links:

https://mergerecords.com/news/5386

https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/dawn-richard-second-line-interview/

holy shit "bussifame"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxfjLdQAA4I

I like Dawn Richards and I love her for putting in that second line footage, but it's hard to follow by comparison.

If anyone cares, this is the song that the band is playing in that opening clip:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldX_mL4CoWo

I was going to be a smart-ass about the animated clip in that tweet but damn "Bussifame" bangs

the version on Spotify appears to have (a section of) “Pressure”, the next track on the album, as well.

that Lil’ Rascals Brass Band track you posted is *thicc*, Jordan

ok the new single is great

this goes

The whole album is fantastic. At first it seems like it's going to be Dawn's most heads-down party album, but then it gets more emotional and weird as it goes along, without losing the devotion to rhythm throughout, so that by the end it feels more like a sequel to Redemption (and, more distantly, Blackheart) than I was expecting.

How dare you (have an advance)

i would love it if she finally broke through to the mainstream

it would be doubly amazing if that happened on merge!

New single "Jacuzzi"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am1O4xZgU_g

she also released interlude "Pilot" a few weeks ago

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

oh "jacuzzi" rules so much

10.
Mornin | Streetlights

oh wow "streetlights"!

this album is shaping up to be my favourite of hers in a long time

there’s also a new EP by Intyce (see one year upthread), with Invadea. this time it’s 4 tracks, 5’30 mins, with features by Dawn and Samantha Mumba (!). mentioning it because some people liked last year’s EP a lot. for me personally the tracks are so short as to be inconsequential.

this is lovely

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/15/arts/music/dawn-richard-second-line.html

For “Second Line,” she wanted to shift the focus to her mother, who underwent a knee surgery at the start of 2020. After Richard moved back home to help take care of her, the pandemic struck, and Richard suddenly found herself occupying a guest room in her parents’ home with an album that still needed to be finished.

But she adjusted, as she tends to do, linking up with local engineer Eric Heigle to complete the record while accepting the responsibilities that come with living with your parents. (Folding clothes and towels, which she recounted with relatable exasperation.) And her extended proximity to her family flowed back into the album: Her mother appears throughout as a kind of narrator, and Richard said their relationship reached a new, adult level through their many conversations for those recordings

that fucking fire alarm battery chirp is driving me crazy

NY Times article also mentions Dawn taking an online finance class and this:

“I was kind of like, ‘I don’t see a lot of Black on the roster,’” she said.

But she was convinced after meeting with the label at her manager’s suggestion, and realizing how many of its artists (Caribou, Destroyer) she loved.