The purpose built next generation interstellar Dawn Richard thread

'Faith' is big, but there's something about the climax of the song at the end that trips me up a bit. It's like the drums come in half a beat later than expected. I've only listened to it a couple of times, mind.

Also, 'Black Lipstick' and 'Bombs' are a really cool 1-2 at the beginning. Some of the deeper cuts have yet to connect with me, but I'm willing to put more effort in. Also, SMFU is amazing.

SMFU is one of my favs; I love how minor it is. It's just this moving little song tucked toward the back of the album, a breather of sorts before the finale

It's all about Change for me. It's the wibbly wobbly Four Tet remix singing bells in the background with those subtle firework vocal harmonies at the front.

Surprised you like Faith so much, Lex. It has a slight touch of the Calvin Harris fake-rave to it. It's those handclaps that annoy me. Like guys, I live the sound of the Roland as much as anyone, but what was great about the TR series was you could change the strike velocity for a good build. Try it with those damn handclaps instead of having them on 10 the whole time!

But this is a minor quibble with an otherwise amazing album. There's not a duff song here. Even the slow burners. Especially thd slow burners. I mean - Scripture? DAMN!

Singing bells? Singing bowls. Damn iPhone.

everyone should listen to that new song dayo posted

Remind me when I get home tonight. :-/

i listened to the new track once & it was awesome but this dreadful working-in-an-office stint is so unconducive to listening to music, i don't know how people cope

i think i love "faith" a lot because of its position in the album - it's a tremendous work of build-and-release in its own right but also within the context of the whole thing. i wouldn't nec isolate it as the album's most impressive song ("black lipstick" or "scripture" imo) but the sheer rush it elicits is perhaps armor on's most impressive moment

OTM, 'Faith' works because there's only one of it and it's perfectly timed within the flow of the album. It's like dropping a big anthem at exactly the right point in a DJ set as opposed to just playing back-to-back big anthems with deadening effect.

SMFU is one of my favs; I love how minor it is. It's just this moving little song tucked toward the back of the album, a breather of sorts before the finale

― Evan R, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 1:23 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah i saw the video on MTV Jams last night and was like "what is this? oh, that song? it's a single? huh?"

Love all the videos for the singles on this album...

i think "smfu" (the non-remix) was a single before "december sky" but none of us noticed it at the time. dawn keeps tweeting cryptic things that make me hopeful that a video for "automatic" might be imminent?

OTM, 'Faith' works because there's only one of it

yes yes yes yes

Oh! the new track has that singing bowls sound that I was loving so much on it.

Also crazy disco string arpeggios. I am loving the attention to detail on the production of this thing.

new track is brilliant.

she said on twitter it was swapped from the EP for "change", which was prob the right decision thematically

this interview is really great http://allhiphop.com/2012/06/06/a-diddy-dirty-money-liberated-dawn-richard-has-armor-on-for-her-next-phase/

"I’ve always had a love for talking to manatees"

will be all the more bittersweet in a few years when she's finally reduced to collaborating with seapunk aquacrunk waverave producers :/

... saying that tho can someone tweet her drexciya's number

bubble metropolis vol 1, the fish suite

But I stayed three years at Nicholls State University, majoring in marine biology, and then I was doubling up dancing in the NBA with the Hornets as a Honeybee.

she's like the love interest in a teen movie

Haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fECWtBGjgoo&feature=g-all-u

she's a very lucky girl that "tryna turn me on cos you think i'm operatic" happens to be a better/funnier/truer lyric than "operational" like she was fumbling for

Ahhhh how had I not listened to "wild 'n' young" before now??? I want dawn to make these overwrought percussive epics 4eva.

"Automatic"!!

More Dawn/Druski. From an upcoming full-length set for October:

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

whoa

jesus christ that atmosphere

i should try to get over my dubstep allergy maybe, that half-time bit had me wrinkling my nose tbh

I'm actually running a little cold on this one. It's repeats a lot of Armor On's motifs without adding much to them

it's even more structureless, which is reading as a plus to me right now

yeah, strikes me as a refinement if anything

awesome stuff

nice to hear gozilla popping up at the end for the ginuwine cosign too

*dz

O_O holy hell

i should try to get over my dubstep allergy maybe, that half-time bit had me wrinkling my nose tbh

― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Tuesday, July 17, 2012 12:03 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol yes. does anyone do remixes that take all the dance elements of a song OUT?

If there were a special edition of Usher's new album that did that, I would be all about it

O_O this song is amazing

why must it only be in youtube quality

SO MANY amazing sonic and vocal details in this

Here's a Soundcloud link: http://soundcloud.com/rapup/pretty-wicked-things-dawn-richard

yeah this is rather massive

this is at least the third really good dubstep r&b song from this year

Wow. Every time I think it can't get any better, it does. It's like one of those videogames where it keeps going up to another level and then another one and then another. The ~sonic textures~ ... this really is just a walking exercise in what ~sonic textures~ are and should be. Also the things her voice does at the end. I don't know if it's digital manipulation (and not even the obvious pitch-shifting) or if she's really singing that but the way the main and backing vocals twine together from 3:00 on - I don't even care if it's manipulated but some of those swoops and especially where she goes up the octave at about 3:25 - the vocal arrangements are like some John Tavener kinda shit.

xpost what are the other two?

the one on the usher album and the one on the bieber album

i care for u & as long as you love me

WCC OTM re: the vocal arrangements, I wish there was more drone layering/vocal line reflection in them to make them go full-on Taverner

it should be noted that putting studs on the underside of fake fingernails is pretty next level

I love how "I Care For U" teases (threatens?) to drop but never does. I think that's my issue with this new Dawn track; when it actually breaks open it's not so thrilling.

But the sonic details on it really are incredible

It's just the intricacy of the polyphony that is completely slaying me. There is just such detail, the composition is just staggering.