Dirty Projectors

not better, just different

really inspired use of this sample imo

wow so much better

loathe to call it better - i'm really attached to that trilled guitar line, but solange's version is indeed really fuckin' awesome.

yeah both are great

yeah its hard 2 no i agree

maybe not so much better, but v. possibly a little better.

didn't do the one thing I was hoping it was which was insane Grace Jones climaxing on "we've been thru!"

i like the thought, but it's nowhere near as good as the original

this is a jam

had to reuse the bag lady / xxxplosive beat??

Tape Store otm

this is dope

Yeah performer/source aside this is much more straight than the original, but a good thing.

Original makes a great autumn jam

I wish I'd listened to this again before Universal went all pissy and made Pitchfork take it down.

jon u can ilxmail me...

sent, thx

beat needs some change ups

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

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.

Still Think I will truck is their finest moment

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/archives/2009/11/dirty_projector_25.html#more

Anyone read SFJ's essay in The New Yorker?

Man, the title track of Rise Above is so fucking good.

not as good as this though is it

fuck that's dreadful

Man, the title track of Rise Above is so fucking good.

― 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

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 Ocean
2 On and Ever Onward
3 When the World Comes to an End
4 Beautiful Mother
5 Sharing Orb
6 No Embrace
7 All We Are

anyone check this out?

DLing it now.

it's so vocal-heavy that i'm getting like a prog-broadway or prog-doowop vibe sometimes, but there's some cool shit here

It sounded pretty good on one listen. I like how it works like a mini song-suite, there's a real cohesion in the sound.

I wish it had a little more of the DP heavy sound instead of being light and acoustic the whole way through but it was pretty.

it is pretty. only listened once so far, but i like. i think bjork and them are a good fit.

i kind of like this, had no idea what it would sound like. though i like both artist i was not inspired to check it out.

Yeah my fear was that this would be too pretty, but I will check it out.

this is nice. like how bjork's voice contrasts with the bright chirpy women's chorus.

saw them play tonight and it was pretty fucking phenomenal. never realised what a stunning song "two doves" is even though i'd heard it dozens of times. sometimes it takes an incredible live show to alert one's senses to the strengths of a band.

What is amazing: see them live and then revisit their recorded material, esp. "Getty Address" and "New Attitude".

they were great when I saw them last year

i saw them at a smallish festival and enjoyed it--i think they came off as a little disjointed and not totally in sync but i'd be willing to chalk that up to the lousy festival-atmosphere and some sound problems that to me seemed pretty major, as i couldn't hear one of the guitars at all for the entire show and it looked like they were doing some pretty complex interplay. would love to see them at a more intimate venue. pretty amazing band all in all, definitely breaking new ground despite all the whack comparisons/analysis upthread/elsewhere.

that's a shame about not hearing one of the guitars as i think with this band specific details such as what each individual is playing need to be acknowledged in order to get a sense of the broader picture. what's incredible is not so much how adept they are at playing in sync, but rather how artfully the songs come together as a result of each member's unique contributions.

oh yeah, i'm definitely a huge fan of the band and their songs and was at the time i saw them. i don't think the material came through as well as it should have at that particular show, but what can you do. i did like watching them though, dave and amber give each other all these interesting cues and nods and everyone in the band seems to alternate between smiling and having the time of their lives, and then focusing in intensely to nail difficult parts. very cool.

yep, the band interaction was a really welcome touch. i was expecting a kind of a stilted stage performance due to the high levels of concentration required or even some rehearsed posturing, but you could really tell they were having a great time and that, along with the music, made the audience very happy.

yep, the band interaction was a really welcome touch. i was expecting a kind of a stilted stage performance due to the high levels of concentration required or even some rehearsed posturing, but you could really tell they were having a great time and that, along with the music, made the audience very happy.

― charlie h, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 3:15 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

I missed them last night because I saw them the last two times they were in town, but friends who went said that they played a bunch of stuff off of Mount Wittenberg - how did that translate live?

^ It's good, esp. "Beautiful Mother", which has become one of the best songs live. Cute and uncomplicated with that savage bit at the end.

yeah, the songs they played from mount wittenberg went down really well, and given those songs are really quite different, they added yet another dimension to an already varied show.

Dave Longstreth vs. Phish fans. Oh dear. (Read the comments...if you dare.)

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/heardmentality/interview/dirty-projectors-dave-longstre/