The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

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Top 10 R&B albums on Billboard

Does Goldenheart even exist in a physical format?

it apparently does

yes but only at FYE with two bonus tracks

and FYE doesn't exist in Canada.

:(

one of the bonus trax is "wild n young" which we all have already, the other is apparently a remix of "northern lights" called "nlx" - haven't heard it though, don't think it's emerged online yet

she had just been talking about NLX hadnt she? in some interview...?

xp
I got this on CD from Amazon (US)--fwiw, it sounds pretty fucking great on bigger speakers. I'm not sure what I would have thought if I'd listened to it on headphones first.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/goldenheart-mw0002449362

nice work kellz :)

seconded!

"Tug Of War" sounded great to me while doing the housework (housework is a good pairing for Dawn, I attacked the vacuum cleaning with an unusual amount of all or nothing vigour), it helped to think of it as part of a darkness-into-light trilogy with the next two tracks rather than the part two of "Warfaire".

seriously like why is "warfaire" there? "tug of war" makes so much sense following straight from "frequency" - both sex jams that feel like dawn's fucking somewhere in the middle of space amongst the stars

I DON'T GIVE A FUCK NOW
I'M GONE BE ON TOP NOW

dunno if this happens to everyone else, but when "Riot" starts I think Ne-Yo and Pitbull's "Give Me Everything."

congrats dayo, you're a "message board wag"

http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/behold-dungeons-dragons-rb/272535/

this reminds me that I was going to offer cash to any of you pros who could get all of the following words into a review: strength, dexterity, constitution, intelligence, wisdom, charisma.

lmao!! xp

haha that is excellent

lol probs to this editor on a completely disingenuous subhead

Diddy ex-affiliate Dawn Richard's fantastic full-length debut, Goldenheart, follows in the unheralded tradition of black musicians drawing emotional power from Tolkien tropes.

props*

just gonna post that here for posterity

http://i.imgur.com/vKaczXd.png

dunno if this happens to everyone else, but when "Riot" starts I think Ne-Yo and Pitbull's "Give Me Everything."

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 28 January 2013 14:31 (4 hours ago) Bookmark

katherine upthread nailed it with 'moves like jagger' (and in truth i really wish she hadn't)

Dawn incites a riot like it's a tedious but necessary admin task that she might as well get out of the way before concentrating on something more interesting.

I've not been particularly motivated to go back to this over the last week or so although I do actually prefer Warfaire to Frequency. That middle section leading up to 86 doesn't really leave an impression on me at all though.

idk it's not really focused on working on eurodance banger terms though, it's an r&b album track (not a single) that appropriates dance signifiers and interprets them through dawn's worldview

for me they're a welcome and necessary expansion of the frame dawn explores the themes of this album in - opening out from the internal personal/private by showing how the same often platitudinous emotional constructs power life outside (LET'S riot, WE gleux), or more specifically clubland with the semiology of club redemption (djs saving lives) dressing for battle, warlike build and release, and the subsequent legends told to inspire the future and rewrite the past

i'd probably agree this sort of thing worked better on armor on but then that was a much more upfront record in personal terms than this is, which gave it a degree more specificity and oomph

(they're = the "banger" cuts)

Previous post feels otm to me.

I think albums with such heavy-handed (which i think it is fairly undeniably - which is not to say that that is a weakness or failure or anything), super-personalised aesthetics (in an overall sense - the shimmery electro-dance r&b plus the glossy denatured vocals plus the sci-fi/fantasy/historical tropes - speaking of which I like to think "northern lights" is a phillip pullman ref and if it was that would support r|t|c's interpretative angle for this more than just about anything else possibly could) often have this sense of either being compelling or off-putting, but more than that, they switch from one to the other between listens, or you can feel both reactions simultaneously, like you can be really enjoying a tune and then suddenly it's like the sun disappears behind the clouds as you reframe what you're listening to in a less attractive interpretative light (or vice versa).

So I think on the one hand it's (too) easy for boosters to glibly dismiss criticisms with "you haven't listened to this enough" but on the other hand I think this is an album for which snap judgements are particularly ill-suited and likely to be unfair - because in accounting (word chosen deliberately) for that sense of discomfort and (literally) "mixed feelings" we will punish this album over something less impressive and interesting but more unambiguous in hitting the smaller targets it aims for.

see if you'd just said "this alb has its weaknesses but will always be miles ahead of some basic bitch album by [insert wholemeal artist]" we coulda had some hearty squabbling going, have u learned nothing from rolling goon

Tim plainly didn't take the chorus of "Riot" to heart.

"this alb has its weaknesses but will always be miles ahead of some basic bitch album by [insert wholemeal artist]"

this too

does anyone else kinda hear 'northern lights'/'frequency' as a heavily abstracted molly suite

i'm gonna have to defend the basic bitch canon here

yeah I don't really mean that in general but OTOH has there been a better basic bitch album in the past twelve months? There have been good ones but not better ones I think.

xxp well ok not that heavily i guess

do you mean that's the part of the album where dawn and some dude are seriously high

"some dude" in the general rather than specific sense

nah we blazed

lol

yeah that part of the album. i kind hesitate to say so actually cos once u have it in mind then listening to 'frequency' suddenly becomes fairly hilarious

yeah it does give the lyrics a certain... precision that was not present before

oh! btw sorry can i just do this, tim (and all) u have to hear this recent find

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-InRBr2rc_4

http://www.discogs.com/Angel-Moore-Ecstasy/release/3117035

some sort of local south florida radio minor hit from 94 apparently

Surprised that nobody here has made anything of the elements of the album that tend more towards deep house.

Sonically it plays as an updated version of what Gaelle was doing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTdKU2pNjh8

Surprised that nobody here has made anything of the elements of the album that tend more towards deep house.

cannot listen to youtubes at work (also on that note sorry rtc I will revert in due course) - pray tell what are the deep house elements on Goldenheart.

How on earth did you uncover that, rtc? Amazing.

Any sort of radio exposure happening w/any of this over in the US? Curious as to how tracks off this wld sit outside of the album, &c.

<3 that Gaelle album, never stopped listening to it.

pray tell what are the deep house elements on Goldenheart.

Well it rings pretty clear to me on the first half of the album and crops up elsewhere (Though the dub elements may to an extent overshadow it on Pretty Wicked Things). In terms of tonality, mood and the steady insistence of the beats, there are pretty clear parallels.

The problem with vocal deep house is that the sample size is relatively small in terms of artistic output so there is a lot of room for mischaracterisation. But looking at Richard next to Gaelle, Lisa Shaw and Lysa Aya Trenier I do hear undeniable similarities.

Listening to the tracks would probably illustrate the point better than reading anything I have to say about it.

http://i48.tinypic.com/xptsed.gif

Perfect

holy fucking shit that angel moore song

also lol it's totally obvious how rtc found it

it doesn't seem to exist in mp3 form. maybe it never has!

also if tsrobodo's gonna introduce me to artists like gaelle let's hold off on the clowning gifs this once

never

also lol it's totally obvious how rtc found it

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 12:24 (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

alas this deduction is incorrect as i already have a youtube of 'moments in love' permanently embedded in my soul

furthermore, http://www68.zippyshare.com/v/98805385/file.html