the song i heard sounds good but has nothing on bitte orca
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 1 October 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
nb: I only like one song on Bitte Orca
― suggestbannn/the lorax below (The Reverend), Thursday, 1 October 2009 16:48 (fourteen years ago) link
sonderangerbot: yes
― suggestbannn/the lorax below (The Reverend), Thursday, 1 October 2009 16:49 (fourteen years ago) link
The vocals for sure sound a lot like Green, but the music not so much though right?
It's in the vocals at times, oh yes, but a song like "Stillness Is The Move" has a distancing effect on me that reminded me of songs like "The Sweetest Girl" as well.
― Cunga, Friday, 2 October 2009 04:23 (fourteen years ago) link
ok thought maybe there was something new out. Mind Raft is pretty good, a bit lazy and grungy in comparison. but i agree with Jordan, Bitte Orca is just impossible to get tired of. and if i ever do i'm looking forward to checking out the previous stuff
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 6 October 2009 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
longstreth seems like such a bro
http://www.avclub.com/austin/articles/dirty-projectors-david-longstreth-doesnt-think-the,34303/
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 October 2009 02:08 (fourteen years ago) link
The A.V. Club: Has anyone ever told you that they fuck to your music?
DL: No! That’s alarming.
lol
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 02:16 (fourteen years ago) link
btw i have recently decided this record isn't that good
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link
I always want to have some kinda balls and damage in my singing, too!
also, I'm really glad he hates Zappa
― balearific, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 02:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i kind of love how he says "fuck" or a variation thereof in about every sentence
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 October 2009 03:04 (fourteen years ago) link
way too many fucks for a "goofy" and "eccentric" ex-yalie imo
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 03:11 (fourteen years ago) link
On the subject of the merit of Bitte Orca: I've been a big Dirty Projectors fan for about five years now, and I don't think any of their albums are all that great. But somehow the project continues to appeal to me; Longstreth seems like a force for good, no matter how loud the whiny chorus of anti-hipsters becomes.
― The Boxing Pretzel Wizard, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 03:39 (fourteen years ago) link
except for stillness is the move every idea on bitte orca was done to better effect on rise above
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 27 October 2009 03:41 (fourteen years ago) link
"rise above" is the best song on either imo, but i had trouble sitting through that at times; bitte's much pithier
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 October 2009 03:43 (fourteen years ago) link
^ That and "Fluorescent Half-Dome".
Regardless of how you may feel about Bitte Orca (the album), their tour to support it was, forgive me, the best show in recent memory, perhaps the best I've ever seen. That band aims high and succeeds often and spectacularly.
― Tourtière (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 27 October 2009 10:36 (fourteen years ago) link
solange cover of "stillness is the move" is great
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
wow, this is really great
― k3vin k., Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
solange's version > DP version
― k3vin k., Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah this insanely good
― see-those-tit-ies (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
not better, just different
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
really inspired use of this sample imo
― see-those-tit-ies (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
wow so much better
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
loathe to call it better - i'm really attached to that trilled guitar line, but solange's version is indeed really fuckin' awesome.
― wrapped up, packed up, ribbon with a donk on it (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah both are great
― hey trader joe's! i've got the new steely dan. (Jordan), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah its hard 2 no i agree
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe not so much better, but v. possibly a little better.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
didn't do the one thing I was hoping it was which was insane Grace Jones climaxing on "we've been thru!"
― plaxico (I know, right?), Thursday, 12 November 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
i like the thought, but it's nowhere near as good as the original
― goodbye indie, hello trendy. (Tape Store), Friday, 13 November 2009 04:10 (fourteen years ago) link
this is a jam
― lots of jerks (gbx), Friday, 13 November 2009 04:19 (fourteen years ago) link
had to reuse the bag lady / xxxplosive beat??
― hoos-kingofthedrugs (deej), Friday, 13 November 2009 05:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Tape Store otm
― plaxico (I know, right?), Friday, 13 November 2009 10:27 (fourteen years ago) link
this is dope
― becky & robbie's bogus journalism (The Reverend), Friday, 13 November 2009 11:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah performer/source aside this is much more straight than the original, but a good thing.
― ogmor, Friday, 13 November 2009 12:00 (fourteen years ago) link
Original makes a great autumn jam
― ogmor, Friday, 13 November 2009 12:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I wish I'd listened to this again before Universal went all pissy and made Pitchfork take it down.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 13 November 2009 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
jon u can ilxmail me...
― omaha deserved 311 (call all destroyer), Friday, 13 November 2009 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
sent, thx
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 13 November 2009 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
beat needs some change ups
― een, Friday, 13 November 2009 23:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Been listening to Damaged like a lot the last couple months, I put on Rise Above today and apart from title track which is awesome, it really doesn't live up to the orig record not that that is really the point I guess.
I love how the on the orig rise above when rollins sings the chorus its like he's tryin to calm himself down and rev psych himself up at the same time, but like that first time longstreth sings the title, it sounds like he's ur already beaten and he's putting his hand on ur shoulder to tell u it just isn't worth
― plaxico (I know, right?), Saturday, 14 November 2009 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
like "rise above man, there's not much else you CAN do"
Who said it was Solange's boyfriend who told Jay-Z to appear at a Grizzly Bear show? Was it somebody on here? I wonder if this dude suggested the song to her.
― Cunga, Saturday, 14 November 2009 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Still Think I will truck is their finest moment
― plaxico (I know, right?), Saturday, 14 November 2009 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/11/dirty_projector_25.html#more
― rap band (schlump), Friday, 27 November 2009 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone read SFJ's essay in The New Yorker?
― Hell is other people. In an ILE film forum. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 November 2009 15:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Man, the title track of Rise Above is so fucking good.
― pithfork (Hurting 2), Thursday, 14 January 2010 23:45 (fourteen years ago) link
not as good as this though is it
― ogmor, Friday, 15 January 2010 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck that's dreadful
― The Book of Eli Porter (ojo), Friday, 15 January 2010 01:41 (fourteen years ago) link
― pithfork (Hurting 2), Thursday, January 14, 2010 6:45 PM (2 hours ago)
yeah i still think it's the best song i've heard by them
― guardian nagle (k3vin k.), Friday, 15 January 2010 01:56 (fourteen years ago) link
http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/bjorkdp452.jpg
http://pitchfork.com/news/39240-bjork-and-dirty-projectors-to-release-collaboration-imount-wittenberg-orcai/
Last May, Björk and Dirty Projectors debuted a new collaborative suite called Mount Wittenberg Orca. It made its debut at a benefit for Housing Works in Manhattan, an event put together by former Pitchfork contributor and current Stereogum writer Brandon Stosuy. And that's about the last we heard about this fleeting meeting of the musical minds. Until now.
This April, Björk and Dirty Projectors entered Brooklyn's Rare Book Room studio and recorded an updated version of Mount Wittenberg Orca. The 20-minute, seven-track piece was written by DP leader Dave Longstreth. It will be self-released digitally on June 30 with money raised going to the National Geographic Society.
Read a letter from Longstreth about the project over at Stereogum.
Mount Wittenberg Orca:
1 Ocean2 On and Ever Onward3 When the World Comes to an End4 Beautiful Mother5 Sharing Orb6 No Embrace7 All We Are
― Boo Radley (Bee OK), Friday, 25 June 2010 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone check this out?
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link