The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

that's why "runway" is the best -- bragging about her hair being real

NO HORSES UP HERE

exactly

they say they new guccis but i had em last year
i'm rocking everything that you really wanna wear

i also like to think that naomi campbell references in r&b have proliferated precisely because of her capacity for assault & battery with swarovski-encrusted blackberrys

do we actually have the production credits for this? i couldn't find them the other week. "vibrate" def in the "promise"/"devotion" lineage

haha, no longer feel weird for suggesting to kev k that vibrate kinda sounds like promise

props to Tim F for an excellent thread title that grabbed my attention and got me to listen to this, because I probably would've ignored it otherwise. listening for the first time now, and it's amazing!

I think I fell in love with her the second I saw there was a song called "Me Myself & Y" (not quite living up to the title, especially following up the excellent excellent "Hey", but still pretty good)

oh and now "Broken Record" is up next — poor lil "MMY", sandwiched in between these two motherfucking monsters

okay I realize that confessing this will probably make me public enemy #1 on this thread, but I still haven't listened to Last Train — just couldn't get excited about it, honestly. but if it's anywhere near Tell Tale Heart in terms of production and atmosphere/mood...

yeah TTH is very close to LTTP in sound and mood, definitely check it out. better late than never!

dope:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgeO3sIIqkU

doper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F_Ou9gX2Bw

I really wish there was a CDQ version of Tell Tale Heart... or at least one that isn't so compressed and muddy sounding

^^^

i thought this was just gonna be a prelude to an album proper but everything's gone a bit quiet on the dawn richard front? this is still amazing though

HE ON ME LIKE BUTTER ON BREAD
FRONT ROW WHEN I'M DOIN MY DANCE

official title is the prelude to a tell tale heart, right?

so sad you bumped this when I didn't have any dawn richard synced to my iphone

haha i totally relate, h8 it when that happens

where is dawn richard :[

― dayo, Thursday, 17 November 2011 22:39 (Yesterday)

The mixtape (which is my 2nd favourite album of 2011) is so good that it's hard for me not to think of it as her debut album.

― Tim F, Friday, November 18, 2011 12:45 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

sez wikipedia (sics all over the place):

The Mix-tape The Prelude to A Tell Tale Heart or alternate title: #ATellTaleHeart[9][10][11] was released February 7, 2011 on her official web-site. There are 15 tracks.[10][12] It called "the prelude to..." because there will be official debut studio album by Dawn Richard entitled A-Tell Tale Heart, which she is working on for past 3 years.[13] She is working with Trendsetter (producer) on few tracks for that album.[14][15] Celebrating the release of her mix-tape, Dawn Richard organized several club events. On February 7, 2011 at "Milan" club in Baltimore[16][17] and on February 12, 2011 at PHX – "Nightclub MIXTAPE PARTY RELEASE".[18]

Dawn has announced that her major solo debut project will be a broken up trilogy of albums entitled "GoldenHeart, "BlackHeart", and "RedemptionHeart". "GoldenHeart", the first of the trilogy is expected to be released late 2011.[19] On June 19, 2011 a buzz track entitled "Stuck On Mad" was released to the public. Followed by a release of a remix to Frank Ocean's Novacane. The remix which was co-written by songwriter Intyce, hit the net on June 21, 2011 and reached over 5000 downloads within a few hours. Intyce was enlisted as one of the writers for Richards solo debut.[20]

2011-present: Golden Heart

SMFU (SAVE ME FROM U) was released on the internet 31st October and is set to be on the first album.[21] This album is set to have an concept of a alter-ego named NEON. The concept has not yet been discussed.

― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Friday, November 18, 2011 2:12 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i am d/lding "stuck on mad" and "smfu" now. no one mentioned them. and yeah putting together my EOY lists dawn ended up at #5, higher than i thought she would.

also she started following me on tumblr!

― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Friday, November 18, 2011 2:13 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3EGWZtOWKA

^^ luv it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izlttiuc8GY

really feelin this too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhdTXp9Zdgo

not gonna go through all of dawn's tumblr lol but this is good too

http://concreteloop.com/2011/09/new-music-dawn-richard-love-wont-lose

think it's produced by the same guy who did the valentine's day mix of lttp?

i am d/lding "stuck on mad" and "smfu" now. no one mentioned them

brainwasher posted stuck on mad just upthread!

lol I think I missed that :/

SFMU is a jam though

album coming as soon as MARCH!!!

http://www.rap-up.com/2012/02/10/dawn-richard-preps-solo-debut-for-march-previews-new-song/

kalenna's mixtape drops on monday, too

http://www.ddotomen.com/2012/02/13/kalenna-of-dirty-money-chamber-of-diaries/

the dirty money fans have apparently abandoned ilx judging from the tumbleweave here i guess?

mixtape is worth copping? i'm with it

there is WAY too much ryan tedder on that tracklist for me to feel comfortable

so far I'm only interested in dawn

yeah it's great - some excellent beats, she's very charismatic, you wouldn't be able to tell ryan tedder was on it. only given it one cursory listen cuz am on double deadline and have to listen to other stuff today :(

Looking forward to this, but much further to the outskirts of the media ecosystem than you, Lex - keen to hear yr thoughts.

media ecosystem?

oh wait as in PR and shiz? lol, i haven't been PRed any of this, i hear about it through following dawn on tumblr and kalenna on twitter exclusively

i'm about to listen to the Kalenna in a bit, but I'm LOVING the new Dawn song. Much much better than #SMFU and December Sky:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESodEc4s8YA

so ethereal. she really is just perfect

SFMU is better imo, but this is a pretty nice album cut

http://soundcloud.com/warhol2012/black-lipstick-dawn-richard

^^ a jam

man, this new dawn shit is too dope

was the kalenna mixtape any good? i couldn't get a copy that would open on my computer, for whatever reason

it's excellent - dawn's is prob better but "matte black truck", "pain & alcohol", "love rock", "ladder" and "put it in a bag" in particular are stunning

although setting dawn and kalenna against each other is probably unhelpful, they're superficially similar but actually quite different

i think my review should go up on fact at some point

I like the kalenna mixtape well enough but I am on #teamdawn xp

stop trolling dayo

lol what?

setting dawn and kalenna against each other is probably unhelpful
― lex pretend, Wednesday, February 22, 2012 11:51 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I am on #teamdawn
― flagp∞st (dayo), Wednesday, February 22, 2012 11:52 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh right. sorry - I didn't see that, was an xpost.

she wore black lipstick color in the game/leather jacket on collar high couldn't see her face/she ice skated on my heart couldn't feel the blade/think I'm colorblind cause I'm bleeding black and gray

<3

i love how kalenna responds to getting dumped by drink-driving and blasting wu-tang on not one but two separate songs

driving in the rain with the music loud
cup out the window, swag on kanye
going the wrong way, listening to wu-tang
cuz i'm feeling like a white girl on cocaine
took three vicodin, i feel strange
pushing 100, hitting curves in the rain
you shouldn't drive drunk with love on the brain

can we add kalenna to the thread title btw? think two separate threads would be a bit pointless