The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

^^ repost. sorry - must have been the excitment or something...

I WANT TO CRY

ok somebody jog my memory: Goldenheart (Outro) -- what is that piano piece?

i need to figure out how i feel about these 'rock' drum sounds (tug of war, ode to you)

― goole, Monday, January 14, 2013 12:00 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not really very rock and not a problem at all either way

thank you for the help

Claire De Lune - Debussy

eh i'm just sayin you had me expecting some session player bombast and instead i just heard drum machine snares that sound like actual snares xp

yeah well drum machine snares that sound like actual snares get me wrinkling my nose instinctually

thx DJP -- i was off hunting for ryuichi sakamoto youtubes lol

love "Break Of Dawn," so shamelessly gooey

Four tracks in and this is already such an ridiculously well sequenced album!

yeah sequencing is great

Seriously, flows like no tomorrow. Currently on "Gleaux."

300 is so good

this is kinda cheesy in parts. i cant deal with 'in your eyes'

love "Break Of Dawn," so shamelessly gooey

― some dude, Monday, 14 January 2013 17:44 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

no air, air

haha that is what i was trying to figure out what it reminded me of

woah, good ear!

doesn't work in canada and i am SO UPSET.

This album's length really works in its favor; this is a satisfying one to lose yourself in. So much beautiful empty space, especially in that final stretch

yeah it's not quite as sprawling as Last Train To Paris but it's probably more immersive.

we could have parted seas just / to walk on the floor of oceans / ohhhh

like damn yo

hah classic example of the alleged iffy songwriting that actually sounds rad i guess

and this love could've built up armies / of nations unstoppable / ohhhh

so apt that the album ends with dawn actually forming her own nation state

xp eh, I still think her battle motifs are tacky and not very imaginative, but I can let that slide since that's not really the hook here, and it's carry-over criticism from Armor On

the opening line of "300" is "i feel like leonidas / battling the titans / a thousand soldiers against one sword" which appears to be a reference to either the film or to some sort of role playing game

the more OTT the battle motifs the better, i don't know how you can have an issue with this

It's the film, yes.

(Strictly speaking the comic but anyway.)

battle motifs: Tacky? or tactical?

a comic, of course it is

strictly strictly speaking Greek history and legend

i cant be the only one who finds this a lil samey relative to LTTP

xp the greek king leonidas (historical) never fought the titans (mythical) though

Dawn's stuff feels pretty distinct from Dirty Money to me at this point -- if any 2 records risk crowding each other's space it's Golden Heart and Armor On

yeah i'm not pretending to be an expert. did frank miller invent that part of the myth though? xp

i think she threw those together just for the rhyme.

like that she interpolates both phil collins and peter gabriel over the course of the record, so i can just think of it as prog

at a couple of points there are these almost old-agey computer music stabs, an ancient-future music, then with the 300 deal, yes, what a progger would be mining these days, if they existed.

which they don't.

30 seconds in and I CANNOT WAIT TO DROP MONEY ON THIS ALBUM

oh thank god. i have finally found a way to make this work.

and In the Hearts Tonight ALONE ugh wow ugh wow what

Proggers exist, but they think Dream Theater is hip and cutting edge.

(Obviously not every one but...too many.)

really happy how much clapping there is on here

that's why i fux with you bb

midtempo clapping, too!

i.e. frequency!

also, never stop with the c0rny spoken word interludes dawn <3

woah @ all of this. brb picking my jaw up from the floor

man. i liked 86 but didn't love it in the context of it being the first single post-armor on.

but 3/4 of the way through GoldenHeart oh my goodness it's fucking devastating.

just finished and I'm not gonna play it again til it's released

but I will say that 'whiteout' seems to have been more predictive than we had thought, so allow me to say

i told u