The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

"empty" is the best song

otm

Amazingly, nearly 15 years old.

Armor On is afaict self-released so i think it being an EP is less a 'bullshit record company' thing than just wanting to prolong the anticipation for a proper DEBUT ALBUM with mixtapes and other minor releases, because everyone always thinks their first album is going to sell a bazillion copies like 50 Cent and doesn't want to drop an album until they think it can do that

the tone of the piano in SFMU remix just kills me

it's a song sung from the rubble

Cool, Empty is great! I never listened to that record besides the singles.

That album is amazing, breh

^^^

So many oversights. Downloading it now, especially after that track.

Velvet Rope might be my favourite Janet LP and 'Empty' might be her best track. You know, depending on the day of the week and more likely if it's winter.

man, this mixtape

"vibrate" is nuts

― pop the s1ock (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, February 22, 2011 1:13 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

one year! shit

wish so much she would release a mastered version of that mixtape

every time I see the title "SMFU", I feel like it should stand for *shaking my fucking uterus* or something

i'm kind of having trouble connecting with 'armor on'. of course i love dawn's voice, so i think i'm more impressed with the atmosphere of the thing - that's really the point of most of these joints, right? - than i am taken with the songs themselves. like the background vocals in "heaven" - that's straight outta LTTP (forget which song, drunx). maybe the problem's with me, that i'm holding it up to kind of an impossible standard, but the songs just aren't staying with me for whatever reason. given the quality of posters enjoying this i'm sure the problem is with me - i need to spend more time with this

i wasn't head over heels like most ppl on the first few listens ("faith" aside) but i think the songs really sneak up on you. a lot of the pleasures are pretty subtle.

i almost feel like this album is just waiting to be cut up by some great house DJs, that that's its primary aim even

I don't know that this is a new phenomenon though. I mean, no media outlets had any interest in reviewing Shareefa's album! Or Algebra's!

― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:57 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't know much about algerba

― internet somebody (some dude), Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:59 AM (1 week ago)

btw http://sae.tweek.us/static/images/emoticons/emot-golfclap.gif

every time I see the title "SMFU", I feel like it should stand for *shaking my fucking uterus* or something

haha ME TOO, and i'm sure she meant it like that, or rather she meant the acronym as a portmanteau of SMH and FU

k3vin try headphones, the songs are there but not all are immediate, but this was blown open for me the first time i heard it on headphones. rtc otm that the sunny weather did it no favours either which was the one positive of last night's inexplicable rainstorm

(it's my album of the year now)

i am so fucking sitting on my hands right now

i'm kind of having trouble connecting with 'armor on'. of course i love dawn's voice, so i think i'm more impressed with the atmosphere of the thing - that's really the point of most of these joints, right? - than i am taken with the songs themselves. like the background vocals in "heaven" - that's straight outta LTTP (forget which song, drunx). maybe the problem's with me, that i'm holding it up to kind of an impossible standard, but the songs just aren't staying with me for whatever reason. given the quality of posters enjoying this i'm sure the problem is with me - i need to spend more time with this

― recent thug (k3vin k.), Tuesday, April 3, 2012 11:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i'm with you, sounds good but hasn't really clicked for me. will give it another try today.

i am so fucking sitting on my hands right now

― TALiB KWELi SODMG (The Reverend), Wednesday, April 4, 2012 6:03 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh, go on.

also with kk & sd to some extent, i think it's less "trouble connecting" than it is the nature of the connection tho - 'armor on' is this haunting, austere, sacred, bleak vista that always impresses but doesnt necessarily engage you to fall head over heels outside the appropriate circumstances like the rest of the ddm canon maybe does

just a bit different is all

rtc otm that the sunny weather did it no favours either which was the one positive of last night's inexplicable rainstorm

― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 07:02 (7 hours ago) Bookmark

i once got caught in a torrential storm with 'make love to you' off lovelovevshatelove on and it was so perfect and overwhelmingly romantic i still sometimes think about it

like if a bad bitch had cropped up at that exact moment i would have walked away from everything and spent my every last penny whisking her off off on a plane somewhere vibe

She's certainly less um approachable than she was on #A Tell-Tale Heart for the most part. There's nothing as breezy as "Biggest Fan" or "Hey" for instance.

This ain't a problem for me perhaps because I've already primed myself for Dawn so much I'm happy to take her in full forbidding stone edifice as last remnant of a vanished alien civilisation mode.

xp underrated jam anyway, even in clement weather

yeah it's more the darkness on tell-tale heart is more, idk if ~relatable~ is le mot juste but a sense of something overwrought and ultimately monstrous bloodily at stake than armor on's more transcendent virtues

This is easily my favourite DDM-related release.

no offence but you have hardly distinguished yourself on matters ddm tbf

well maybe you have actually but not in a good way

xp underrated jam anyway, even in clement weather

― r|t|c, Wednesday, April 4, 2012 6:27 AM Bookmark

otm

yeah that's not saying much coming from someone who was not a 'ass on the floor' partisan! xxp

The original SMFU just clicked with me. It's still not as awesome as the Remix, but still.

Feelings!

(Hah I don't actually like DDM at all but really like both Dawn releases, her own aesthetic is distinct enough that I barely make the DDM connection any more)

Hah I don't actually like DDM at all

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btw

http://www.factmag.com/2012/04/07/dawn-richard-armor-on/

a-yo

niiiiiice

Yeah that was totally awesome!!!

Rev is getting really trigger happy with the snoop.gif.

Nothing snoop.gif worthy about not vein able to stomach Diddy's atrocious rapping imo

imo if you don't like DDM what board are you even posting on

nice review btw rev

k3v otm

DDM songs work because of, not in spite of, diddy's rapping

Nothing snoop.gif worthy about not vein able to stomach Diddy's atrocious rapping imo

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