Quiet in a World Full of Noise // CD

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Dawn Richard and Spencer Zahn share a common collaborative ethos, a genuine sense of musical curiosity, and a cosmopolitan eagerness to escape the conventions of genre. That shared vision first brought them together on 2022’s Pigments—icy and warm, stripped-down and grand, familiar and otherworldly—and now it has reunited them for Quiet in a World Full of Noise

By turns intimate, soul-baring, spectral, and startling, Quiet in a World Full of Noise blends atmospheric and orchestral soundscapes with mellifluous soul, jazz, and journalistic vocalizing—driving it all home with stark, confessional lyricism. The new album finds Richard at her most raw and exposed. Quiet expands the definitions of what constitutes progressive, avant-garde R&B by rewriting them altogether.
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released October 4, 2024

Dawn Richard: vocals
Spencer Zahn: piano, synthesizers, upright bass, fretless bass
Bryan Senti: violin, viola, violoncello da spalla, piano on 11
CJ Camerieri: French horn, flugelhorn, trumpet, piccolo trumpet

Featuring the Budapest Film Orchestra on 5, 7–9

All songs composed and arranged by Spencer Zahn
All lyrics and vocals composed by Dawn Richard
Produced by Spencer Zahn
Additional production by Bryan Senti
Orchestral arrangements by Bryan Senti
Mixed by Philip Weinrobe
Additional mixing by Spencer Zahn
Orchestra mixed by Justin Moshkevich
Mastered by Shawn Hatfield
Additional engineering by Alex Komlos, Eric Heigle, Péter Barabás, and Gergő Láposi

Piano recorded at Cold Brook Studio, Bearsville, NY, courtesy of Gracie Coates and Sam Margevicius
Piano tuning by Scott Andrews

All other instruments and vocals recorded at Hook & Line Studios, Los Angeles, CA, except orchestra recorded in Budapest, Hungary

Mixed at Sugar Mountain Recording, Brooklyn, NY
Orchestra mixed at Igloo Music, Burbank, CA
Mastered at AudibleOddities, Boulder, CO

Photography by Clifford Usher
Album design by Daniel Murphy
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