Hot off the heels of the release of her highly lauded album, D∆WN (aka Dawn Richard) announces her nationwide REDEMPTION TOUR today. She will taking her electrifying live show on the road for the full month of July, starting in Detroit and wrapping in New York, and which also includes a performance at Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago. In celebration, she shares her first full new video (see below) for her track "LA" feat. Trombone Shorty (produced by Noisecastle III, Machinedrum & Dawn Richard) off of her album REDEMPTION, which was highly praised by Pitchfork, FACT,Rolling Stone, NPR, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Jezebel, Stereogum, SPIN, The FADER and many more, out now via Local Action/Our Dawn Entertainment.
The black and white visual is directed and produced by frequent collaborator Monty Marsh (who also directed Dawn's Not Above That, Billie Jean x Dance - see below) and features a film-noir take with Dawn dancing in the streets of Los Angeles - full credits below. Dawn continues to prove that she's one of the most prolific artists in the contemporary pop landscape and is not stopping any time soon.
READ MORE ABOUT THE VIDEO AT JEZEBEL:
http://themuse.jezebel.com/d-wn-explores-struggle-and-beauty-in-her-gorgeous-new-v-1793995027
STREAM / BUY REDEMPTION:
https://idol.lnk.to/4uk6f
VIDEO CREDITS: Directed / Produced by: Monty MarshCinematographer: Quinn FeldmanEditor: Lauren RichardsonFlame Artist: Jeff JohnstonDrone Footage: Drone DudesTrack produced by Machinedrum & Dawn Richard
PRESS ON D∆WN:
"she stands apart not only for her abstract production, but also as a black woman who makes challenging pop music with soul... As a singer, songwriter, producer, entertainer, set designer and animator, D∆WN owns her creativity, drawing a line through Afro-futurists like Sun Ra, Larry Heard and Erykah Badu." - NPR
"She manages to live inside her own genre, somewhere between futurism and ancient ballads, between Janelle Monáe, Rihanna, and Adele" - PITCHFORK
"one of music's boldest thinkers." - TIME
"'REDEMPTION' is by far her best and most visionary effort yet." - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"['REDEMPTION'] pulls off the noble feat of streamlining the cosmic pop-warrior stylings of the first two into a formidable stab at reaching a wider audience, without ever coming across as pandering." - NEW YORK MAGAZINE
"dazzling, genre-defying" - BILLBOARD
"spaced-out and fascinating" - STEREOGUM
"['REDEMPTION'] mixes her fiery, warped and voguey alt R&B/dance sonic tapestry--as well as some glorious 70s space rock moments, and jazzy interludes--a refreshing surge of artistry we need right now" - PAPER
"It's an intricate, boundary-melting trip through R&B, dance music, and electronic pop, with an unexpected twist into hard rock" - SPIN
"Running in tandem with its multifaceted subject matter is Richard's ability to draw from a bottomless well of genres...This is all to say that Redemption is not just a triumph in musical transcendentalism (no boxes in sight for Richard here)-it's an unapologetic celebration of the self." - PASTE
