Dirty Projectors

Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan

x-post - ha ha

if you didn't like their old stuff you probably won't like this one either.

― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, July 5, 2012 5:54 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i never liked anything by them before, but like swing lo

BULLSHIT

it's true, i should go back and listen to the other albums, but they never appealed to me before. i also like the new grizzly bear single and never liked anything by them previously.

totally hear dylan/ mccartney moves, too

Is the new album streaming anywhere?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/arts/music/david-longstreth-of-dirty-projectors-on-the-new-album.html?_r=2&smid=pl-share

*crickets* ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IG5f50olZA

i'm into it, but Keep Your Name was even better (only came across it yesterday):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9tbusKyvMY

definitely feels like a solo project. the drums are very preset-y, but there is so much ear candy in the rest.

i like this. they are due for a new album and i doubt it will disappoint.

i'm keeping the flag waving...

I'm coming around to Keep Your Name but I found the lyrics made it an excellent contender for this thread: Songs where the singer/protagonist comes off as a serious dick without meaning to

I would be into DL dragging some of the Getty-ish orchestration back to the forefront though.

this new song is incredible... i can't wait for the new record now. i haven't cared about them in so long but this rules so hard, makes me want to revisit Bitte Orca and try Swing Lo Magellan again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpCruYl7kz4

btw the new one is self-titled, out February 10 via Domino.

http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/dirtyprojst.jpg

01 Keep Your Name
02 Death Spiral
03 Up in Hudson
04 Work Together
05 Little Bubble
06 Winner Take Nothing
07 Ascent Through Clouds
08 Cool Your Heart
09 I See You

So... This is probably gonna be my favorite album of 2017, huh? All three songs so far has been pretty damn great. The rest is probably crap.

love a 9 track album, can't wait.

"Maybe I could be with you / do the things that lovers do / slightly domesticate the truth / and write you 'Stillness Is The Move'"

This lyric upsets me

"little bubble" is amazing. felt like their take on neo soul to me. i haven't really listened to them since bitte orca (aka college) but some of the other songs i've heard off this sounded pretty awesome. the opener is sick.

Breakup albums are one thing but these songs so far make me feel like I'm on a subway having to listen to a guy loudly berate his girlfriend in public

lol from what i understand about the lyrics across the album....... um, i'm glad i'm not someone who hears lyrics first

love a 9 track album, can't wait.

lol it's a double LP though

i really wish you made a new thread, not sure why ILM is so afraid to make new threads these days. for instance, i had no idea there was a new Flaming Lips album as i didn't click on the generic thread.

anyways, very excited for this new album.

does he sing "while you drink a fifth from my ass"?

yeah i heard that too...

xxp i figured bumping this one made sense since it's self-titled, and one of the things i love most about ilx are that the threads span several years. but i would've made a new one if this wasn't a s/t

if only the lyrics were as subtle as the arrangements. like keep your name, it's an awkward listen.

"Maybe I could be with you / do the things that lovers do / slightly domesticate the truth / and write you 'Stillness Is The Move'"

This lyric upsets me

― fgti, Wednesday, January 18, 2017 6:41 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i really dig this line, it's obviously a reference to Dylan's "Sara" ("I can still hear the sounds of those Methodist bells / I’d taken the cure and had just gotten through / Staying up for days in the Chelsea Hotel / Writing 'Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” for you').

really glad i can ignore lyrics so easily with this sort of music

when indie bros reach a certain age do they all turn into mark kozelek

this is NOT a comment on quality but there is a little "hearts & bones" in "up in hudson"

can't *wait* for the results of honeybear realising father john misty is impossible to be with

http://www.baeblemusic.com/musicblog/10-6-2016/amber-coffman-gives-her-own-take-on-her-breakup-with-dirty-projectors-frontman.html

This new track from Coffman, entitled "All To Myself," seems to address the same topic as "Keep Your Name," albeit from a very different perspective

Never listened to this last year

the spoken breakdown in keep your name is excruciating. Up in Hudson is beautiful ototh.

ILX will probably be interested to know Dawn Richard is on this album (singing a song co-written by Solange, I believe)

Noticed the cover is a riff on the motif from the cover of Bitte Orca and Slaves' Graves and Ballads. But I can't tell if that's like... a giant chocolate sculpture or wood.

Dave's singing has dramatically gotten better. I can't believe how good he sounds on little bubble.

imho dave's singing was always great, but he deffo more refined/practiced now

*he is

If DL is referencing a Dylan lyric, that Dylan lyric upsets me too. It's transparent to me as a listener which lyrical devices will transform a "cathartic song about the singer's heartbreak" into an "abusive kiss-off to a lover". Reminding the ex (and the world) that her breakthrough star turn was "hey, a song ~I~ wrote for you"? It disempowers the ex both internally and externally, reminds the audience to check writing credits, is a form of aggrandizement-for-the-author, and, worst of all, threatens to be, if the song achieves some kind of NPR ubiquity, some evil black lantern that's gonna hang over the ex's aural environment for the song's lifespan. I write this because I respect DL as a musician and a man from head to toe, but if I'd been privy to hearing these lyrics at a stage where I could've offered some advice, I'd tell him to make beautiful music, not shitty music. Stuff like this is legacy-souring for me

otm

Felt similar about the line "What I want from art is truth, what you want is fame" from Keep Your Name.

About Stillness Is The Move, Amber is credited as a writer on that track (only other person on that record other than DL) and don't all the lyrics just come straight from Wings of Desire? I always wondered how there was no credit for that on the track.

"keep your name"'s lyrics are just, ugh

unfortunate bc musically this is the most i've ever liked dp

Nauseating profile up on p4k today http://pitchfork.com/features/profile/10013-going-solo-dirty-projectors-dave-longstreth-steps-outside-the-frame/

We talk about The Blues Brothers joining the canon of flinty, ’70s American cinema, and how Magic Eye illusions double as a metaphor for the concentrated power of female orgasm.

I'm going to assume you made that sentence up 'cause there's no way I was gonna read that anyway.

no that sentence is absolutely in there

yep. along with pictures of Longstreth looking pensive in the woods

jfc burn it all down

:D