Dessa - A Badly Broken Code (Full Album)
A Badly Broken Code is the debut album by Dessa, a member of Minneapolis indie hip hop collective Doomtree. It was released on Doomtree in 2010. The album title comes from a line in the poem "Nostalgia" by American poet Billy Collins.
Tracklist:
1 Children's Work [0:00]
2 Poor Atlas [3:12]
3 The Crow (feat. P.O.S on backing vocals) [4:50]
4 Dixon's Girl [8:28]
5 Mineshaft II (feat. Jessy Greene on violin) [11:12]
6 The Chaconne (feat. Matthew Santos) [14:53]
7 Matches to Paper Dolls [19:35]
8 Go Home [23:07]
9 Seamstress [26:40]
10 Dutch [30:38]
11 The Bullpen [33:58]
12 Momento Mori (sample used with permission of Minotaur Shock) [36:34]
13 Crew (samples Jim O'Rourke's "Ghost Ship in a Storm") [38:53]
14 Alibi [41:49]
15 Into the Spin (feat. Jessy Greene on cello and violin) [44:53]
*Dessa is Margret Wander (born 23 May 1981), better known by her stage name Dessa, is a rapper, singer, spoken word artist, and writer from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is a member of the indie hip hop collective Doomtree. Dessa went to Southwest High School, graduating from the I.B. program in 1999. She attended the University of Minnesota, where she earned a B.A. in philosophy. Before becoming an artist full-time, she worked as a technical writer for a medical manufacturer. Initially drawn to their raw aesthetics and unique sound, Dessa forged a friendship with Doomtree. Soon after, she started dating P.O.S. Though they eventually ended their relationship, she was asked nonetheless to join the crew, and did so. Since 2005, Dessa has appeared on numerous Doomtree albums, as well as on the other members' solo albums. Dessa's debut solo EP False Hopes was released in 2005. Despite being only fifteen minutes long, it was listed as one of the top local albums of the year by Minneapolis Star Tribune. She completed and released a book of creative non-fiction titled Spiral Bound at the fourth annual Doomtree Blowout in 2008. In 2009, Dessa published Spiral Bound on Doomtree Press, a seventy-page collection of fiction and poetry. Dessa's first solo album, A Badly Broken Code, was released on January 19, 2010. The singles from this album are "Dixon's Girl" and "The Chaconne." The album features production from Paper Tiger, MK Larada, Lazerbeak, Cecil Otter and Big Jess. MK Larada also designed the album art. Dessa is a founding member of The Boy Sopranos, an almost all-female a cappella group, with frequent collaborators Jessy Greene, Aby Wolf and others. She also teaches at the Institute of Production and Recording and the McNally Smith College of Music. On March 2, 2012, Dessa presented "Mic Lines: Art, Ethics, and their Contested Connections" at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, as part of the three-day Nobel Peace Prize Forum. Her new album "Parts of Speech" is out now.
