Dirty Projectors

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.

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.