DAWN RICHARD'S ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM 'PIGMENTS' WITH SPENCER ZAHN
Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn has announced a new collaborative album called Pigments, sharing the four songs of its first movement: “Coral,” “Sandstone,” “Indigo,” and “Vantablack.” The complete project is due out October 21 via Merge. Pigments —a tribute to her father Frank Richard of the funk band Chocolate Milk—Dawn Richard said in a statement: “I felt like the tools that I and other people like me were dealt weren’t shiny. Yet we still painted these beautiful pictures. This album is what it means to be a dreamer and finally reach a place where you’ve decided to love the pigments that you have.”
If there’s one thing Dawn Richard will do is continue to choose her own lane, reinvent numerous sounds and make it hers. Pigments introduces listeners to another facet of Dawn Richard’s and brings Zahn’s creativity to a new audience. The project follows Dawn Richard’s critically acclaimed Merge debut Second Line. Richard and Zahn previously collaborated on the 2018 single “Cyanotype.” Dive into the preview EP below.
From NEW BREED to the SECOND LINE
Dawn Richard is back with her new album Second Line, her first album with Merge Records and her first new album since 2019’s New Breed. As “a movement to bring pioneering Black women in electronic music to the forefront.” Dawn continues to push forward with breaking down the barriers placed keeping Black artists in one genre. With her previous work Blackheart & Redemption, Dawn has explored Dance and Electronic sounds. Fast forward to 2021, Dawn continues showcasing her New Orleans influences - An Electro Revival.
On Second Line, Dawn Richard’s introduces alter-ego ‘King Creole' — an “assassin of stereotypes, a Black girl from the South at a crossroads in her artistic career.” The album shines as an ode to the Second Line — a New Orleans tradition of celebration usually at a funeral with a parade. The bulk of the album includes uptempo dance styled rhythms, preceded by the single “Bussifame”.
Dawn Richard - Bussifame [VIDEO]
Ahead of the album drop, Dawn shared, “Pilot (A lude)” “Jacuzzi,” “FiveOhFour" (A lude) with accompanying visuals and “Mornin | Streetlights”. Second Line is available now from Merge Records. Available in stores (CD & Vinyl), plus on all streaming platforms.
Having sat with the album, 1 day after the release. It’s definitely hard to pick a Top 3. You just have to play the whole album and run it back. And these interludes need to be longer but in true Dawn Richard fashion, the interludes is going to slap.
CURRENT FAVORITES - NOSTALGIA, JACUZZI, STREETLIGHTS, PERFECT STORM — yeah the whole thing. The run from “Le Petit Morte (a lude)” to “Selfish (Outro)”, PRESSURE!
Just go purchase and watch that Boomerang video.
DAWN RICHARD "RENEGADE" ELSVNATE MX
EXTENDING MIXING WITH THE ADDITION OF LEARNING THE DJING PLATFORM HAS BROUGHT OUT SOME DOPE ACCIDENTS AND SOME MORE REFINED MIXING. WHAT STARTED WITH BLOW MIXED WITH DAMAGED BROUGHT ME TO RENEGADE. SIMPLE BUT DOPE.
