The follow-up to 2007's critically acclaimed debut Rise Above. Their fifth release is a big rock album by design. Its idiosyncratic and sincere take on popular music is reminiscent of David Byrne with whom Dirty Projectors collaborated on "Knotty Pine" for the 2009 compilation Dark Was The Night. In many ways, group leader David Longstreth could be seen as this generation's answer to Byrne, a distinctive torchbearer of labyrinthine song arrangements that go down easy.

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The breadth of David Longstreth's talents as a songwriter, arranger, bandleader and singer call to mind Prince, Joni Mitchell, and Bjork. His constantly evolving sound, the sheer intensity of the music, and the originality of his voice set him apart. From beginning to end, Rise Above is a re-imagining of Black Flag's seminal 1981 record Damaged. It's not a covers record; Longstreth attempted to rewrite his favorite adolescent album word for word, from memory. The result resounds with a kind of   [ read more ]

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The Getty Address is an epic glitch-opera about a mythical character named Don Henley. Using a women's choir, sub-woofing sin waves, clipshod beats, a wind orchestra, and detuned guitars, The Getty Address guides the listener through a psychodramatic love story, meditating on the ideas of the wilderness inside us all and the meaning of America once the 'Manifest Destiny' imperative has expired completely. The Getty Address is as subtle and flinty a piece of protest music as "A Hard Rain   [ read more ]

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"Slaves' Graves and Ballads" presents a merging of classical and pop music. Its lyrics further develop Dave Longstreth's shrubs-at-the-edge-of-the-lot imagery from last year's debut "The Glad Fact," marking how the landscaping in large parking lots makes us feel different about ourselves. Tricked-out Hondas, subwoofers, sunsets, woodchips, chiropractors: all these pieces of the American strip mall coalesce in a vivid meditation on the technology that domesticates and the instinct that resists domestication   [ read more ]

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The Dirty Projectors' debut album, The Glad Fact, dwells in the sorts of emotional ambiguities and contradictions that have always tortured the sensitive ones. Each song offers a new melody that seems to have been sent from some erratic and beautiful netherworld. The music is many things at once: sophisticated and heartfelt, tender and aggressive, pleasing and miserly in its refusal to please. Longstreth's songs possess a will to surprise and deceive that constantly defies our expectation of musical--and e   [ read more ]

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In between a massive national tour in support of The Getty Address and relocation to Brooklyn, chief Dirty Projector Dave Longstreth wrote an EP's worth of crazy new songs. Playing the electric counterpoint to The Getty Address, New Attitude is a refreshingly pared-down disc: simple, beautiful, and focused. It is dominated by the sound of chiming microtonal guitars, sub-bass dragon breaths, a sextet of cellos and double-basses, and most of all, Longstreth's singing, which has never been   [ read more ]

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