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 elegant simp...   [ 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's A-Gonna Fall" but...   [ read more ]

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