Dawn Richard Announces New Album Creole Culture: Hear “Enough”

The arty R&B explorer Dawn Richard has gone down many fascinating paths over the years, and she has radiated strength through all of it, whether testifying against Sean Combs or making experimental records with Spencer Zahn. Today, she announces her new album Creole Culture. Like a couple of Richard's past records, 2019's New Breed and 2021's Second Line, the new one is an homage to Richard's roots as a Black and Native American woman from New Orleans. Earlier this summer, Dawn Richard shared her Durand Bernarr duet "baby, can we?" That song appears on Creole Culture. Richard recorded the album with Katalyst, the LA-based collective founded by jazz drummer and producer Greg Paul. The LP also has appearances from Big Freedia, Anjelika “Jelly” Joseph, Tarriona “Tank” Ball, and Richard's father Frank Richard, of the old New Orleans soul/funk band Chocolate Milk. For this record, Richard has adapted an alter-ego that she calls King Creole. In a press release, Dawn Richard says:New Breed was the story of New Orleans through my father’s eyes. I used his samples, his music, his cultures, his work with Chocolate Milk, his side of the family. Second Line was my mom — her interludes ridd...