Dawn Richard is a resilient, gifted musical entity. Persistently misunderstood by the industry throughout a six album solo career that followed the end of a run in the reality TV-founded girl group Danity Kane, the frustrations that have followed her since she departed from Diddy's .
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New Orleans artist
Dawn Richard is a dancer, producer, animator, and vegan food truck owner to be more succinct, she’s a badass. Dance like it’s Mardi Gras with “
Bussifame.”
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
Dawn Richard grew up in New Orleans. Her father sang in a funk band called Chocolate Milk. He still does.
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SHAPIRO: As a kid, she was kind of alternative.
DAWN RICHARD: I had my JNCO jeans, and I was ready to go. Like, that was natural to me, right? I had blue and green hair young, anime shirts when I was young.
SHAPIRO: And her musical tastes wandered far from her father s style.
DAWN RICHARD: I grew up loving Chris Cunningham, Aphex Twin, Portishead, Bjork, Imogen Heap. You know, Green Day was my first concert.
New music by Manchester Orchestra, Marianne Faithfull and more
Marianne Faithfull, She Walks in Beauty (BMG)
The elevator pitch for this album doesn t do it justice. The veteran singer, known for 60s cuts such as When Tears Go By, reads Romantic poetry (from Byron, Keats, Shelley and the like) over ethereal soundscapes by Nick Cave cohort Warren Ellis.
Sounds self-indulgent, right? It s anything but. Faithfull s weathered yet still-exquisite voice draws each degree of emotion from these classic lyric lines, and Ellis production proves sublime. This is a serene bit of beauty, a few moments of grace in a world that s too often graceless.
Christian Eede
, May 6th, 2021 23:04
Loraine James and Duma are among the other artists to contribute new tracks to the annual collection
Adult Swim has shared details of the latest edition of its annual Singles series.
The next few months will see the US cable network unveil new tracks from the likes of Jlin, Loraine James, Duma, Dawn Richard, Nur Jaber, and Moor Mother with Lonnie Holley, among others. It kicks off this week with a new track from Iceage, High & Hurt , which features on the Copenhagen band s forthcoming new album,
Seek Shelter.
Listeners will be able to stream new tracks on the Adult Swim website as they are made available. This year s programming promises to be the most diverse yet, Adult Swim said in a statement, with the tracks set to cross various genres, such as rap, experimental, indie, classical, punk, metal, electronic, jazz, and beyond.