Dawn Richard: Blackheart (Our Dawn) Watching Dawn Richard’s career progress has been engrossing, as she jumped from Danity Kane to Diddy – Dirty Money to her solo career—all enjoyable, and yet all completely different from one another. Her solo work has been particularly challenging, offering a prog-R&B sound unlike anything we’re hearing right now, and yet that can often make it a chore to come back to it. That was the case with 2013’s Goldenheart, a terrific album that sounds better through speakers than in your memory. Blackheart is just as rewarding, but that doesn’t exactly mean it’ll be tempting to play it often. I have faith, however, because unlike Goldenheart, this actually has notable standouts—“Blow,” “Adderall/Sold (Outerlude),” and “Phoenix” are all phenomenal parts of the whole, an important lesson she may very well have taken away from the recent Danity Kane reunion. A-
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