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― cutty, Thursday, 23 April 2009 12:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
amazing how the pop begins to rise out of the weirdo arrangements. all of these songs have the ability to get stuck in your head over time. very memorable stuff here.
this is the kind of album that transforms over time, i'm sure. album of the year probably.
― cutty, Thursday, 23 April 2009 16:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
A good record, despite the title ("lol indie").
― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 April 2009 16:23 (4 years ago) Permalink
This had been sitting on my desk for two weeks and I stupidly only just got round to listening to it. Wow!
― Stevie T, Thursday, 23 April 2009 17:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
"there's something undeniably inimitable about their sound."
i think a big part of their uniqueness is simply the songwriting, instead of the arrangments or instrumentation, which seems to be how many bands get by these days.(/all the time). those wide intervallic leaps in the vocal melodies, the little rubato passages that are often thrown into DP songs -- these are a few things that to my ears sound 'longstrethian' at this point. that's why two doves struck me immediately as just being a DP song w/o longstreth singing. upthread remarks to the contrary are wildly oFFtm.
― uptown churl, Thursday, 23 April 2009 18:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
i think a big part of their uniqueness is simply the songwriting
i agree. however i think what i was unsuccessfully trying to say was not just that they're original, but that the dirty projectors can't be imitated, and maybe even that no one would want/dare to imitate them. i imagine an album like loveless, for example, coming seemingly out of nowhere and then spawning a shitload of bands who spent their whole careers just rewriting those songs. bitte orca, though, which i think is equally unprecedented, i don't see having the same effect. is it because it isn't as good as loveless? probably it isn't as good, but worse albums have been equally influential. i think maybe it's because their formula isn't as fruitful in itself. it would be hard to write a good dirty projectors song (r&b tinged octave-reaching vocal melodies, complex guitar picking/strumming patterns, "rubato passages") whereas it's relatively easy to write a good my bloody valentine song (layered distorted guitar, build/release blablabla). just a tought.
― samosa gibreel, Saturday, 25 April 2009 00:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
Menomena - Friend and Foe
― kamerad, Saturday, 25 April 2009 05:41 (4 years ago) Permalink
Taking Sides: Pop Scritti Politti v. Post-Punk Scritti Politti
― kamerad, Saturday, 25 April 2009 05:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
The part that really blows my mind is the breakdown in Useful Chamber. The girls sing this incredibly complex harmony, and then they repeat it in a much softer style (it sounds like a synth pad) -- it's beyond description! This is such a great record. The run of tracks from Stillness to No Intention is awesome.
Feathliur.
― Wax Cat, Saturday, 25 April 2009 18:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
I was trying to dissect just what was going on with my session ace guitar teacher. To his ears, he heard either some tricky harmonizer work or tracks recorded (sampled?) then sped up. The pop aspect of this album has gotten more and more apparent to me with each listen, but the genius lies in all the tricky ways he/they disguise it. They make you work for you pleasure, which makes it that much more interesting/affecting when it finally clicks.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 25 April 2009 18:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah "useful chamber"'s great. reminds me a little of the song they did with david byrne for the dark was the night thing, "knotty pine"
― kamerad, Saturday, 25 April 2009 18:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
still digging this
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 18:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
i don't think it's even come out yet bro
― cutty, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 19:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
release date is june 9. pretty scary that people could be done "digging" an album before it's even out.
― cutty, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 19:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
There's something called the internet, see.
― Bud Huxtable (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 19:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
that's not the point.
― cutty, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 19:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
i'm not done, though. i'll probably even listen to it after it's released. might even pay money for it.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 19:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
still have not heard it. i don't think i know where to get leaks lately
when i saw these guys (march?) they were flogging 'bitte orca' t shirts
presumably after june 9 you have to stop wearing them
― thomp, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 19:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
it does seem like a pretty long lag time between when they must have finished it (+ the inevitable leak) and the release date
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 19:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
bj*rk's stock has collapsed like the markets after that last LP hasn't it?!
not even a mention of her last single, or the collaboration with these guys (haven't even heard yet, or this band... curious) a fortnight after it was on Pitchfork.
Did I dream it?
― fandango, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 20:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
"i've only recently been acquainted with the band through their new album, but i feel like the dirty projectors are one of the bands that fit into the category of bands who are the only band in the world who could possibly make the music they make."
Very much agree. They the Gentle Giant of the indie rock.
― jaydaven, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 21:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
Anyone who digs this album and hasn't checked out "Knotty Pine" should do so
― Number None, Thursday, 21 May 2009 00:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
― Freedom, Thursday, 21 May 2009 07:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
This is definitely an album I'll be buying which I can't say about all the leaked albums I listen to. Also just ordered the Dark Was The Night album as the tracklisting looks phenomenal, it's only £9 on Amazon and as it's for charity I can't bring myself to d/l it for free off of the interweb
― groovypanda, Thursday, 21 May 2009 07:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
someone please school me on gordy. what is the essential album?
― cutty, Thursday, 21 May 2009 12:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
also some please let me know what else out there in the world sounds like knotty pine
― cutty, Thursday, 21 May 2009 13:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
Props to Number None for pinting in the direction of "Knotty Pine" - not the Gordon lightfoot song! Tis awesome.
x-piddly
― Freedom, Thursday, 21 May 2009 13:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
In terms of albums, I only know Rise Above, which is a tad heavy going, though the song Gimmie Gimmie Gimme is pretty cool.
― Freedom, Thursday, 21 May 2009 13:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
okay, this is fantastic
sadly, they have three weeks tops until nine-tenths of ilm starts affecting to hate them.
― thomp, Thursday, 21 May 2009 19:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
sadly for ilm, i mean; i doubt the dirty projectors will care
it would take a pretty shitty follow up for me to start disliking this band now
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Thursday, 21 May 2009 20:47 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'd also be very interested in what earlier albums of theirs are worth checking out
― groovypanda, Friday, 22 May 2009 20:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
caveat: his lead guitar playing (i think it is him) is less interesting on this record than it was playing the songs off this record live
also, live they did something tranceyier/wigouter at the end; i am not sure yet how i feel about the power-ballad stylings of the closer here
also, how old is dave longstreth? if he doesn't have at least the better part of five years on me it'll annoy me, i think.
― thomp, Friday, 22 May 2009 21:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
are you competing with him?
― cutty, Friday, 22 May 2009 22:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
he's kinda hot in a gross way too
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Friday, 22 May 2009 22:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
he's never seen the seventies
― tramp steamer, Friday, 29 May 2009 04:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
saw them live on tuesday opening for TVOTR. they were so great. blew me away. every person in that band has so much damn talent, it's a bit mind-boggling to see it come together so well on stage.
also, i'm in love with angel deradoorian.
― borntohula, Thursday, 4 June 2009 20:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
which is the one that does "two doves"?
― k3vin k., Thursday, 4 June 2009 20:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
xp seein that show tonight
― hugging used to mean something (call all destroyer), Thursday, 4 June 2009 20:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
angel is the one that does "two doves."
― borntohula, Friday, 5 June 2009 10:40 (4 years ago) Permalink
had not read upthread in a while. ILX has really u-turned on DP u no
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Friday, 5 June 2009 11:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
lol hstencil
― cutty, Friday, 5 June 2009 15:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
and animal collective = they might be giants. fuck that.
confusing statement imo
― hugging used to mean something (call all destroyer), Friday, 5 June 2009 15:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
Just heard the Getty Address last night. Really is a great record, and perfect for being super stoned at 2 a.m.
― DustyLoops, Friday, 5 June 2009 20:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
Getty Address is Killer Business
― bear, bear, bear, Friday, 5 June 2009 20:46 (4 years ago) Permalink
My mother was asking me about these guys the other day which was kind of o_O. Were they on NPR or something?
― circa1916, Friday, 5 June 2009 21:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
this album is only released today?
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 08:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
that pads/vocals back forth at the middle of useful chamber sounds new today.
BITTEYORCA-ORCABITTEY!
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 09:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
new album has leaked and is pretty amazing
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, April 10, 2009 6:23 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I've been listening to this album consistently since this post and I'm still not tired of it, pretty amazing.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 11:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
April 10 is my birthday
― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Tuesday, 9 June 2009 12:10 (4 years ago) Permalink