Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn - Umber (Official Audio)

On October 21, 2022, Merge Records will release Pigments, the debut album collaboration between New Orleans electro-revival dynamo Dawn Richard and multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Spencer Zahn.

Pigments is a project about the power of self-expression through living art, through motion. It’s also a love letter to New Orleans, Louisiana. Not strictly classical, jazz or ambient electronica but rather a body of “movements,” Pigments is an expressive soundscape that is an immersive passage through the city as seen through the eyes of a young Black girl with dreams to paint her future with the pigments given to her.

[normhenry]

Dawn is extremely underrated. Thank you for you artistic vision. I understand the depth and perception this album is given. Amazing!

[QuatMan]

This collaboration is one of the best things I have heard in YEARS! We need some radio stations willing to play more real music like this! Just BEAUTIFUL!

[angelarussell]

DAWN RICHARDS. GROWTH. That part. I understood the message and you understand the ASSIGNMENT. One love ma.

[vinemp]

I shall ever [adore] this collaboration. (It's always a blessing to observe when ensembles, so audibly, have listened to one another.)

[qwazieharris]

WHAT... THIS IS BRILLIANT 💫! BEST SONG OFF ALBUM 100%

[sanskretro]

I'm not feeling it, Dawn. "'86" was the last slight-bop I heard form you. Loyal listener/online follower since the 00s.