Dirty Projectors

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

^ 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.

solange cover of "stillness is the move" is great

wow, this is really great

solange's version > DP version

yeah this insanely good

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.