well i think when you put something out with no label and no radio airplay and it does any kind of numbers to get onto the Billboard 200 and the iTunes charts, that opens some industry doors, or at the very least helps fund a larger budget for the next phase if it stays DIY
― some dude, Monday, 30 April 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
hang on, this got to no 1 on the R&B chart? is that...what i think it is, or is it less impressive than that?
anyway she made a lyric booklet for us http://www.rap-up.com/2012/04/25/download-dawn-richard-armor-on-lyric-book/
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 30 April 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
Not crazy about "Bombs" tbh
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 30 April 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
^ It's less impressive and more niche, I think, like when a podcast host doesn't make the New York Times best seller list but brags about his Amazon sales rank. But Al is otm; it's still something to point to
― Evan R, Monday, 30 April 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
I put this on my "best of 2012" Spotify playlist and then kind of ignored it for a couple of weeks
I came back to it today and holy shit, I like this even more than I did when I first played it
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Friday, 4 May 2012 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
I have only just (finally) got around to listening to this and yes, it is amazing.
― They have fangs, They have teeth! (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Monday, 14 May 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
yes!
i keep wanting to play people "faith" but something about it all feels like it's not right to hear "faith" before you've heard the tracks that precede it.
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 14 May 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― The Reverend, Monday, 14 May 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
click this http://www.hulkshare.com/x4krcblaq8no click this
― dayo, Friday, 18 May 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
damn son
― The Reverend, Saturday, 19 May 2012 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
god "Automatic" is fantastic
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 14:12 (eleven years ago) link
'Faith' is big, but there's something about the climax of the song at the end that trips me up a bit. It's like the drums come in half a beat later than expected. I've only listened to it a couple of times, mind.
Also, 'Black Lipstick' and 'Bombs' are a really cool 1-2 at the beginning. Some of the deeper cuts have yet to connect with me, but I'm willing to put more effort in. Also, SMFU is amazing.
― Mercer Finn, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 04:40 (eleven years ago) link
SMFU is one of my favs; I love how minor it is. It's just this moving little song tucked toward the back of the album, a breather of sorts before the finale
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 05:23 (eleven years ago) link
It's all about Change for me. It's the wibbly wobbly Four Tet remix singing bells in the background with those subtle firework vocal harmonies at the front.
Surprised you like Faith so much, Lex. It has a slight touch of the Calvin Harris fake-rave to it. It's those handclaps that annoy me. Like guys, I live the sound of the Roland as much as anyone, but what was great about the TR series was you could change the strike velocity for a good build. Try it with those damn handclaps instead of having them on 10 the whole time!
But this is a minor quibble with an otherwise amazing album. There's not a duff song here. Even the slow burners. Especially thd slow burners. I mean - Scripture? DAMN!
― Narco Martenot (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 06:16 (eleven years ago) link
Singing bells? Singing bowls. Damn iPhone.
― Narco Martenot (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 06:51 (eleven years ago) link
everyone should listen to that new song dayo posted
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 07:40 (eleven years ago) link
Remind me when I get home tonight. :-/
― Narco Martenot (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 07:42 (eleven years ago) link
i listened to the new track once & it was awesome but this dreadful working-in-an-office stint is so unconducive to listening to music, i don't know how people cope
i think i love "faith" a lot because of its position in the album - it's a tremendous work of build-and-release in its own right but also within the context of the whole thing. i wouldn't nec isolate it as the album's most impressive song ("black lipstick" or "scripture" imo) but the sheer rush it elicits is perhaps armor on's most impressive moment
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 09:39 (eleven years ago) link
OTM, 'Faith' works because there's only one of it and it's perfectly timed within the flow of the album. It's like dropping a big anthem at exactly the right point in a DJ set as opposed to just playing back-to-back big anthems with deadening effect.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 12:07 (eleven years ago) link
― Evan R, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:23 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark
yeah i saw the video on MTV Jams last night and was like "what is this? oh, that song? it's a single? huh?"
― waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
Love all the videos for the singles on this album...
― Mercer Finn, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
i think "smfu" (the non-remix) was a single before "december sky" but none of us noticed it at the time. dawn keeps tweeting cryptic things that make me hopeful that a video for "automatic" might be imminent?
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
OTM, 'Faith' works because there's only one of it
yes yes yes yes
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
Oh! the new track has that singing bowls sound that I was loving so much on it.
Also crazy disco string arpeggios. I am loving the attention to detail on the production of this thing.
― Dixie Narco Martenot (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
new track is brilliant.
she said on twitter it was swapped from the EP for "change", which was prob the right decision thematically
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
this interview is really great http://allhiphop.com/2012/06/06/a-diddy-dirty-money-liberated-dawn-richard-has-armor-on-for-her-next-phase/
"I’ve always had a love for talking to manatees"
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:05 (eleven years ago) link
will be all the more bittersweet in a few years when she's finally reduced to collaborating with seapunk aquacrunk waverave producers :/
― r|t|c, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
... saying that tho can someone tweet her drexciya's number
― r|t|c, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
bubble metropolis vol 1, the fish suite
― r|t|c, Thursday, 7 June 2012 19:52 (eleven years ago) link
But I stayed three years at Nicholls State University, majoring in marine biology, and then I was doubling up dancing in the NBA with the Hornets as a Honeybee.
she's like the love interest in a teen movie
― goole, Thursday, 7 June 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
Haha
― freebroheem (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 8 June 2012 03:55 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fECWtBGjgoo&feature=g-all-u
― uberweiss, Monday, 18 June 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
she's a very lucky girl that "tryna turn me on cos you think i'm operatic" happens to be a better/funnier/truer lyric than "operational" like she was fumbling for
― r|t|c, Monday, 18 June 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
Ahhhh how had I not listened to "wild 'n' young" before now??? I want dawn to make these overwrought percussive epics 4eva.
― Tim F, Monday, 18 June 2012 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
"Automatic"!!
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 June 2012 13:22 (eleven years ago) link
More Dawn/Druski. From an upcoming full-length set for October:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsuKEmWQvnk
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
whoa
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
jesus christ that atmosphere
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
i should try to get over my dubstep allergy maybe, that half-time bit had me wrinkling my nose tbh
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
I'm actually running a little cold on this one. It's repeats a lot of Armor On's motifs without adding much to them
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
it's even more structureless, which is reading as a plus to me right now
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, strikes me as a refinement if anything
awesome stuff
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
nice to hear gozilla popping up at the end for the ginuwine cosign too
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
*dz
O_O holy hell
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Tuesday, July 17, 2012 12:03 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark
lol yes. does anyone do remixes that take all the dance elements of a song OUT?
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:45 (eleven years ago) link
If there were a special edition of Usher's new album that did that, I would be all about it
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
O_O this song is amazing
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
why must it only be in youtube quality
SO MANY amazing sonic and vocal details in this
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link