Brooklyn-based neo R&B legend Dawuna presents a beautifully captivating mini-LP about the characters and formative era of his life in Southside Richmond, Virginia - RIYL Klein, LA Timpa, Niecy Blues.
Since emerging, butterfly-like from his chrysalis with ‘Glass Lit Dream’ in 2020, Dawuna has captured hearts with a highly personalised, intimately lo-fi slant on R&B. ’Southside Bottoms’ is his first for Purple Tape Pedigree and offers an alluring example of a singular feel for atmosphere, illuminated by a signature, distinctive vocal presence. It bumps and creaks in all the right places, webbed with ohrwurming hooks and suffused with the special stuff.
Twinkling in with a fine balance of his bittersweet, gauzy electronic production and sparingly expressive coos on the deep blue(s) of ‘Bottom Energy’, beckoning an unnamed character to “fuck me harder”, he sketches from memory a compelling short story that frames daydreaming lust with synaesthetic use of location recordings and pen-on-glass percussion, and almost gospel-soul chorus in ‘Strawberries’, whilst a skit ‘Rosary’ cuts to the plucky baroque soul of another highlight, ‘Prayer’, arranged with his naturally aching vox and quietly gripping strings, leaving us heart-in-mouth with the switch from beatific ambient to burnished downstroke and puckered harmonies in ‘Heaven’.
Practically a picture-perfect mini-LP, EP, whatever you want to call it. This one’s going to end up in a lot of faves folders and shelves, Dawuna really is one of the bets to ever do it.
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Brooklyn-based neo R&B legend Dawuna presents a beautifully captivating mini-LP about the characters and formative era of his life in Southside Richmond, Virginia - RIYL Klein, LA Timpa, Niecy Blues.
Since emerging, butterfly-like from his chrysalis with ‘Glass Lit Dream’ in 2020, Dawuna has captured hearts with a highly personalised, intimately lo-fi slant on R&B. ’Southside Bottoms’ is his first for Purple Tape Pedigree and offers an alluring example of a singular feel for atmosphere, illuminated by a signature, distinctive vocal presence. It bumps and creaks in all the right places, webbed with ohrwurming hooks and suffused with the special stuff.
Twinkling in with a fine balance of his bittersweet, gauzy electronic production and sparingly expressive coos on the deep blue(s) of ‘Bottom Energy’, beckoning an unnamed character to “fuck me harder”, he sketches from memory a compelling short story that frames daydreaming lust with synaesthetic use of location recordings and pen-on-glass percussion, and almost gospel-soul chorus in ‘Strawberries’, whilst a skit ‘Rosary’ cuts to the plucky baroque soul of another highlight, ‘Prayer’, arranged with his naturally aching vox and quietly gripping strings, leaving us heart-in-mouth with the switch from beatific ambient to burnished downstroke and puckered harmonies in ‘Heaven’.
Practically a picture-perfect mini-LP, EP, whatever you want to call it. This one’s going to end up in a lot of faves folders and shelves, Dawuna really is one of the bets to ever do it.
Brooklyn-based neo R&B legend Dawuna presents a beautifully captivating mini-LP about the characters and formative era of his life in Southside Richmond, Virginia - RIYL Klein, LA Timpa, Niecy Blues.
Since emerging, butterfly-like from his chrysalis with ‘Glass Lit Dream’ in 2020, Dawuna has captured hearts with a highly personalised, intimately lo-fi slant on R&B. ’Southside Bottoms’ is his first for Purple Tape Pedigree and offers an alluring example of a singular feel for atmosphere, illuminated by a signature, distinctive vocal presence. It bumps and creaks in all the right places, webbed with ohrwurming hooks and suffused with the special stuff.
Twinkling in with a fine balance of his bittersweet, gauzy electronic production and sparingly expressive coos on the deep blue(s) of ‘Bottom Energy’, beckoning an unnamed character to “fuck me harder”, he sketches from memory a compelling short story that frames daydreaming lust with synaesthetic use of location recordings and pen-on-glass percussion, and almost gospel-soul chorus in ‘Strawberries’, whilst a skit ‘Rosary’ cuts to the plucky baroque soul of another highlight, ‘Prayer’, arranged with his naturally aching vox and quietly gripping strings, leaving us heart-in-mouth with the switch from beatific ambient to burnished downstroke and puckered harmonies in ‘Heaven’.
Practically a picture-perfect mini-LP, EP, whatever you want to call it. This one’s going to end up in a lot of faves folders and shelves, Dawuna really is one of the bets to ever do it.
Brooklyn-based neo R&B legend Dawuna presents a beautifully captivating mini-LP about the characters and formative era of his life in Southside Richmond, Virginia - RIYL Klein, LA Timpa, Niecy Blues.
Since emerging, butterfly-like from his chrysalis with ‘Glass Lit Dream’ in 2020, Dawuna has captured hearts with a highly personalised, intimately lo-fi slant on R&B. ’Southside Bottoms’ is his first for Purple Tape Pedigree and offers an alluring example of a singular feel for atmosphere, illuminated by a signature, distinctive vocal presence. It bumps and creaks in all the right places, webbed with ohrwurming hooks and suffused with the special stuff.
Twinkling in with a fine balance of his bittersweet, gauzy electronic production and sparingly expressive coos on the deep blue(s) of ‘Bottom Energy’, beckoning an unnamed character to “fuck me harder”, he sketches from memory a compelling short story that frames daydreaming lust with synaesthetic use of location recordings and pen-on-glass percussion, and almost gospel-soul chorus in ‘Strawberries’, whilst a skit ‘Rosary’ cuts to the plucky baroque soul of another highlight, ‘Prayer’, arranged with his naturally aching vox and quietly gripping strings, leaving us heart-in-mouth with the switch from beatific ambient to burnished downstroke and puckered harmonies in ‘Heaven’.
Practically a picture-perfect mini-LP, EP, whatever you want to call it. This one’s going to end up in a lot of faves folders and shelves, Dawuna really is one of the bets to ever do it.