it's a song sung from the rubble
― dayo, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
Cool, Empty is great! I never listened to that record besides the singles.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 10:15 (twelve years ago) link
That album is amazing, breh
― TALiB KWELi SODMG (The Reverend), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 12:56 (twelve years ago) link
^^^
― Tim F, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 12:59 (twelve years ago) link
So many oversights. Downloading it now, especially after that track.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
Velvet Rope might be my favourite Janet LP and 'Empty' might be her best track. You know, depending on the day of the week and more likely if it's winter.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link
man, this mixtape
― goole, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
"vibrate" is nuts
― pop the s1ock (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, February 22, 2011 1:13 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
one year! shit
wish so much she would release a mastered version of that mixtape
― dayo, Tuesday, 3 April 2012 22:50 (twelve years ago) link
every time I see the title "SMFU", I feel like it should stand for *shaking my fucking uterus* or something
― TALiB KWELi SODMG (The Reverend), Tuesday, 3 April 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
i'm kind of having trouble connecting with 'armor on'. of course i love dawn's voice, so i think i'm more impressed with the atmosphere of the thing - that's really the point of most of these joints, right? - than i am taken with the songs themselves. like the background vocals in "heaven" - that's straight outta LTTP (forget which song, drunx). maybe the problem's with me, that i'm holding it up to kind of an impossible standard, but the songs just aren't staying with me for whatever reason. given the quality of posters enjoying this i'm sure the problem is with me - i need to spend more time with this
― recent thug (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
i wasn't head over heels like most ppl on the first few listens ("faith" aside) but i think the songs really sneak up on you. a lot of the pleasures are pretty subtle.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 4 April 2012 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
i almost feel like this album is just waiting to be cut up by some great house DJs, that that's its primary aim even
― recent thug (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 03:25 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know that this is a new phenomenon though. I mean, no media outlets had any interest in reviewing Shareefa's album! Or Algebra's!
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:57 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i don't know much about algerba
― internet somebody (some dude), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:59 AM (1 week ago)
btw http://sae.tweek.us/static/images/emoticons/emot-golfclap.gif
― recent thug (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
haha ME TOO, and i'm sure she meant it like that, or rather she meant the acronym as a portmanteau of SMH and FU
k3vin try headphones, the songs are there but not all are immediate, but this was blown open for me the first time i heard it on headphones. rtc otm that the sunny weather did it no favours either which was the one positive of last night's inexplicable rainstorm
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 06:02 (twelve years ago) link
(it's my album of the year now)
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 06:03 (twelve years ago) link
i am so fucking sitting on my hands right now
― TALiB KWELi SODMG (The Reverend), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 06:03 (twelve years ago) link
― recent thug (k3vin k.), Tuesday, April 3, 2012 11:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
i'm with you, sounds good but hasn't really clicked for me. will give it another try today.
― some dude, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 12:51 (twelve years ago) link
― TALiB KWELi SODMG (The Reverend), Wednesday, April 4, 2012 6:03 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh, go on.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 12:52 (twelve years ago) link
also with kk & sd to some extent, i think it's less "trouble connecting" than it is the nature of the connection tho - 'armor on' is this haunting, austere, sacred, bleak vista that always impresses but doesnt necessarily engage you to fall head over heels outside the appropriate circumstances like the rest of the ddm canon maybe does
just a bit different is all
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
rtc otm that the sunny weather did it no favours either which was the one positive of last night's inexplicable rainstorm
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 07:02 (7 hours ago) Bookmark
i once got caught in a torrential storm with 'make love to you' off lovelovevshatelove on and it was so perfect and overwhelmingly romantic i still sometimes think about it
like if a bad bitch had cropped up at that exact moment i would have walked away from everything and spent my every last penny whisking her off off on a plane somewhere vibe
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
She's certainly less um approachable than she was on #A Tell-Tale Heart for the most part. There's nothing as breezy as "Biggest Fan" or "Hey" for instance.
This ain't a problem for me perhaps because I've already primed myself for Dawn so much I'm happy to take her in full forbidding stone edifice as last remnant of a vanished alien civilisation mode.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
xp underrated jam anyway, even in clement weather
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it's more the darkness on tell-tale heart is more, idk if ~relatable~ is le mot juste but a sense of something overwrought and ultimately monstrous bloodily at stake than armor on's more transcendent virtues
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
This is easily my favourite DDM-related release.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
no offence but you have hardly distinguished yourself on matters ddm tbf
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
well maybe you have actually but not in a good way
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
― r|t|c, Wednesday, April 4, 2012 6:27 AM Bookmark
otm
― TALiB KWELi SODMG (The Reverend), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:21 (twelve years ago) link
yeah that's not saying much coming from someone who was not a 'ass on the floor' partisan! xxp
― dayo, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:33 (twelve years ago) link
The original SMFU just clicked with me. It's still not as awesome as the Remix, but still.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
Feelings!
(Hah I don't actually like DDM at all but really like both Dawn releases, her own aesthetic is distinct enough that I barely make the DDM connection any more)
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
Hah I don't actually like DDM at all
http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd246/dc19124/snoop.gif
― TALiB KWELi SODMG (The Reverend), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
btw
http://www.factmag.com/2012/04/07/dawn-richard-armor-on/
― The Reverend, Sunday, 8 April 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link
a-yo
― dayo, Sunday, 8 April 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
niiiiiice
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 8 April 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah that was totally awesome!!!
― THE SPACEMENT TAPES (loves laboured breathing), Sunday, 8 April 2012 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
Rev is getting really trigger happy with the snoop.gif.
― Evan R, Sunday, 8 April 2012 02:01 (twelve years ago) link
Nothing snoop.gif worthy about not vein able to stomach Diddy's atrocious rapping imo
― Evan R, Sunday, 8 April 2012 02:02 (twelve years ago) link
imo if you don't like DDM what board are you even posting on
― recent thug (k3vin k.), Sunday, 8 April 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link
nice review btw rev
― recent thug (k3vin k.), Sunday, 8 April 2012 02:04 (twelve years ago) link
k3v otm
― dayo, Sunday, 8 April 2012 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
DDM songs work because of, not in spite of, diddy's rapping
― Evan Rhttp://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxozkjOUlo1r97gceo1_500.gif
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 8 April 2012 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
SMOKE WEED LISTEN TO SADE
― dayo, Sunday, 8 April 2012 02:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2012/04/dawn_richard_kalenna_dirty_money.php
― some dude, Monday, 9 April 2012 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
(lol at me and rev having a mindmeld on the phrase 'greek chorus')
― some dude, Monday, 9 April 2012 13:42 (twelve years ago) link
nice
lol at "For the album's fervent cult of patient motherfuckers"
― The Reverend, Monday, 9 April 2012 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
thumbs up 4 the piece shipz
― lex pretend, Monday, 9 April 2012 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
Great piece; and a good gateway to the joys of Dawn Richard for people who aren't already on the DDM train (i.e non-ilxors)
― Evan R, Monday, 9 April 2012 16:06 (twelve years ago) link