Dirty Projectors

Totally, 'Stillness is the Moves' blows me away again and again! Awesome album, this.

moves

I've been listening to this a bunch over the last few days. Overall I like most of the songs, but I think Stillness Is The Move and Two Doves tower above any of the other tracks. This suggests to me that the album may have been even better if main dude would have divided lead vocal tasks more evenly between the 3 of them. Maybe let each person do 3 songs? Then there'd be nothing left to do but rake in the $$$$$.

I think "Two Doves" is by far the worst song on the album. It has the least interesting chord progression and aesthetic-wise is like uh... really girly. I imagine dude writing it and being like "Strictly 4 My B.I.T.C.H.E.S."

I guess rhythmically and harmonically those two songs are more straightforward than they others.

To me, that works in their favor because the focus then shifts away from quirkiness to the beauty of the melodies and their voices. I guess I get more excited about really well crafted pop songs than by the originality of it all.

I think "Two Doves" is by far the worst song on the album. It has the least interesting chord progression and aesthetic-wise is like uh... really girly. I imagine dude writing it and being like "Strictly 4 My B.I.T.C.H.E.S."

― balearific, Friday, July 10, 2009 3:20 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark

STFU, BITCH

I guess rhythmically and harmonically those two songs are more straightforward than they others.

To me, that works in their favor because the focus then shifts away from quirkiness to the beauty of the melodies and their voices. I guess I get more excited about really well crafted pop songs than by the originality of it all.

― Moodles, Friday, July 10, 2009 7:56 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Idk--I think the guy has an amazing voice and that, say, "Useful Chamber" is extremely catchy. I do see where you're coming from, though. I respect your opinion.

STFU, BITCH

― the kid is crying because did sharks died? (Hurting 2), Friday, July 10, 2009 8:03 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

GO CHOKE ON AN AIDS-RIDDEN DICK

1) ur missing the point 2) uh "the girl" wrote it

― we don't know weber he bill return (k3vin k.), Friday, July 10, 2009 8:14 PM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Yes, I definitely am missing the point. But no, Dave wrote all the songs--cf. http://andybetablog.blogspot.com/2009/06/dirty-projectors-interview.html "The songs on this album that I wrote for the girls"

Strictly 4 My B.I.T.C.H.E.S., bitches

kindof think Two Doves is just too much of an overplayed reference and comes off pretty lame.

Stillness is the move is gonna be the one people remember but Useful Chamber is pretty awesome esp for that harmony/pads bit that I wish reappeared at least twice more in the song but whatevs that is what repeat buttons are for iirc.

like all that feather/failure stuff upthread is real enlightening music discussion cringe to me now.

also i wish i didnt just read that interview, dude is such a dork

― we don't know weber he bill return (k3vin k.), Friday, July 10, 2009 8:32 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hahahahahah that much I definitely agree with. My favorite part is when they listen to West African guitar music together

"Two Doves" haterz are obscurantist loons! :-))))))))))))))))

So wait, is my reading comprehension slipping, or does he kind of make fun of Rollins for buying the same kind of African guitar music they are enthusing about later in the interview? Or is it just "lol Rollins old"?

<3 this lyric in "temecula sunrise"

and what hits the spot, yeah, like gatorade?/ you and me baby

at times, nothing hits the spot like gatorade tbh

singing 'woah-nigh'' after that line is as r kelly as the lp gets.

i like "i live in a greenhouse and i am getting wasted, yeah" from the same song alot as well. this album has really darling lyrics, like nothing is really going wrong in their lives ever: "i'm cau-au-aught up in a storm, that i, don't need no shelter from."

it's more super-positivity i think, like stillness in the move, after all that we've been through etc

huh, i like this stillness song, i'd never heard it

It's fucking rad more like! :-)

This album is so great. The musicianship is just amazing. So nice to hear in the wake of tone deaf retard bait like Vivian Girls.

Best performance I've seen on Letterman, ever, perhaps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuzdtrDRrro

(via http://pitchfork.com/forkcast/13334-cannibal-resource-live-on-late-show-with-david-letterman/)

True fucking joy! Why isn't EVERYONE listening to this band? They should be all over the fucking charts.

Wow, that performance is just great! Can't believe how good his voice is live as well, quite remarkable!

dont't get me wrong i like that they're playing it alot faster than on the recording, but it is not flattering in certain parts. i like that new guitar line on the "still countin on..." part though, and have always loved dave longstreth's pidgeonlike neck movements.

Band reminds me of Scritti Politti.

The vocals for sure sound a lot like Green, but the music not so much though right?

Deradoorian EP >>>> Bitte Orca

Yeah I've yet to check that out!

i havent heard of that, will check it out

sounds kinda like a more minimal, less produced, less dreadful (in the neutral sense) Third, maybe?

woah i haven't heard anything about this. did she write the songs herself?

ok i just listened to it and the answer is obviously yes.

it's good! nothing quite as great as "two doves," just some seriously darling mystical folk.

are you guys talking about "Mind Raft"?

i am

the song i heard sounds good but has nothing on bitte orca

nb: I only like one song on Bitte Orca

sonderangerbot: yes

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.

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

longstreth seems like such a bro

http://www.avclub.com/austin/articles/dirty-projectors-david-longstreth-doesnt-think-the,34303/

The A.V. Club: Has anyone ever told you that they fuck to your music?

DL: No! That’s alarming.

lol

btw i have recently decided this record isn't that good

I always want to have some kinda balls and damage in my singing, too!

also, I'm really glad he hates Zappa

i kind of love how he says "fuck" or a variation thereof in about every sentence

way too many fucks for a "goofy" and "eccentric" ex-yalie imo

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.

except for stillness is the move every idea on bitte orca was done to better effect on rise above

"rise above" is the best song on either imo, but i had trouble sitting through that at times; bitte's much pithier