The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

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.

ok which ilxor is dawn richard

Geir

it's me, i'm Dawn Richard

new album absolutely goes off damn

glad I mostly avoided the singles and went in cold, it's just hit after hit

its so good

It's...fine?

Nice live-streamed interview with Dawn and her mum just now on the npr YouTube channel following a listening party for the album.

Had to interrupt my spin of the LP (looks gorgeous btw) half way through because of that event, so am now returning to the vinyl. This edition ends after “Perfect Storm”, which works in context but ‘SELFish’ is such an epic -,no mere outro - that knowing now that it exists is probably going to skew my feelings about the record.

wow @ “boomerang”

the..... production........

this starts as a dance album even more bangin than reputation and then mutates into a sequence of increasingly proggier slow jams, exactly on my wavelength, and then dawn sings over the moonlight sonata, which, lol. pretty cool with living in a world where this album exists

even more banging than redemption*

lol ugh

“perfect storm” ;_;

obsessed with “Nostalgia” and to a lesser extent, “Boomerang”. a whole album with this vibe would (have) be(en) awesome, but it does indeed go in a very different direction after “Bussiframe”. need to delve into it further, but “SELFish” at least is def very good

video for "Boomerang"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69qStO5iP0E

would have been even more fitting if Second Line had indeed been Dawn's Off The Wall

would have been even more fitting if Second Line had indeed been Dawn's Off The Wall

As far as this still implying the possibility that her next album is her deserved mega-platinum (or whatever said equivalent is in streaming terms these days) smash record, maybe it is!

one can dream

(OTW was 9x platinum in the US itself btw, but I wasn’t talking about commercial performance anyway)

I knew you weren't, obviously, just expressing a desire to see her get massive.

whole album is amazing

otm