The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

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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

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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

she's done a "what's in my bag?" video for amoeba:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQfIF4TFLlA

oh yes this album is fantastic

once I fell through the “Pressure” rabbit hole that was it. when that dub bass comes in under the chorus...

first proper listen to most of this today, obv the brilliance was never in doubt but

i love how so many of her sonic motifs are present and correct, but it still moves on into its own new space

also she's really into panning vocals more than ever

there's a ton of thoughts i shd thunk later but anyway tracectory maintained and accelerated

oh it's deeper and dubbier than ever before and that's fun too

i don't think it's my favourite yet but bollocks to keeping a score

Took two listens but this is another triumph

there's some really good stuff on here but i don't know if it really works for me as a whole yet, it's really fragmented?

Thats my take too

I don't think anybody's album work is less fragmented than Dawn's, she seems to constantly want her albums to flow musically and thematically and this feels the same to me. Maybe some of the individual pieces/ideas are shorter than before, maybe, a little bit?

Pilotalude is sick

"The club is the street where we know dance music, when we hear bounce, that's where we do it anywhere—whatever moves us, we dance" —Dawn Richard@crystalleww talks w/ @DawnRichard about her new album Second Line, dancing, electronic music, moms, & more!https://t.co/dRwEWR2vsx

— Tone Glow (@toneglow) May 19, 2021

I liked that interview

we had rehearsals for our Live performances and I decided we should dance on water and wear Mugler while doing it. When the dress rehearsals turn into a movie. Thought I’d share the process. ⚜️ pic.twitter.com/wx0M65KrFr

— DAWN (@DawnRichard) June 3, 2021

too short!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgjQJTeCjWQ
Dawn Richard • Bussifame (Felix Da Housecat & Dave The Hustler Remix)

Happy birthday, girl!

live show at BAM last night was overwhelming in the precision of stagecraft and choreography but WAY too much sound for a relatively small house like seeing an arena show in ballroom. there were numerous songs that took me ten seconds to go "oh yeah, i know this track" simply because they were so overwhelming. Dawn sounded great (though I could've done with less vocal effect work throughout. It was an efficient tsunami, done in 70 minutes, ran through maybe 18 songs like it was nothing. Glad I caught it but I'd really prefer to see her in a less vegas setting next time.

this was the closer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybGtEMgdBwE

new album with spencer zahn out in october

https://dawnrichard.bandcamp.com/album/pigments

“New Orleans dynamo Dawn Richard and multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Spencer Zahn announce Pigments, their debut collaborative album, out October 21st on Merge Records. Today, the pair presents the first movement: “Coral,” “Sandstone,” “Indigo,” and “Vantablack,” which is accompanied by an official video and marks Richard’s directorial debut. Pigments tells the story of finding one’s self through dance, self-expression, and community through the lens of New Orleans’ contemporary arts scene. Not strictly classical, jazz, or ambient electronica, but rather a body of “movements,” Pigments is one long composition guided by Richard’s stripped-down vocals. Following her acclaimed Merge debut, Second Line, Pigments reveals a new facet of Richard’s limitless talents and her entry into the contemporary classic world, and provides a fresh introduction to Zahn, whose intimate, sprawling soundscapes play with principles of open space and motion.”

wow the four released tracks are immensely beautiful, what a unique discography she's making

I don't know anything about Zahn though, is there a good project to check out first?

yes, this is beautiful stuff

I mean, it’s so easy to take the beauty for granted when people consistently make great work over a long period of time, but this really is incredibly beautiful. “Vantablack”, wow…

She was one of the Pitchfork Festival's highlights.