Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 5 July 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
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
― mizzell, Thursday, 5 July 2012 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
BULLSHIT
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 5 July 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
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
― mizzell, Thursday, 5 July 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
Is the new album streaming anywhere?
― heaven needed someone who rhymed with 'poop' (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 6 July 2012 05:31 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/arts/music/david-longstreth-of-dirty-projectors-on-the-new-album.html?_r=2&smid=pl-share
― mizzell, Friday, 6 July 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
*crickets* ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IG5f50olZA
― flappy bird, Thursday, 5 January 2017 19:41 (seven years ago) link
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.
― sam jax sax jam (Jordan), Thursday, 5 January 2017 19:55 (seven years ago) link
i like this. they are due for a new album and i doubt it will disappoint.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 7 January 2017 03:23 (seven years ago) link
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.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Saturday, 7 January 2017 10:04 (seven years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 22:37 (seven years ago) link
btw the new one is self-titled, out February 10 via Domino.
http://pitchfork-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/content/dirtyprojst.jpg
01 Keep Your Name02 Death Spiral03 Up in Hudson04 Work Together05 Little Bubble06 Winner Take Nothing07 Ascent Through Clouds08 Cool Your Heart09 I See You
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 22:39 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 22:47 (seven years ago) link
love a 9 track album, can't wait.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 22:52 (seven years ago) link
"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, 18 January 2017 23:41 (seven years ago) link
"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.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 18 January 2017 23:43 (seven years ago) link
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
― fgti, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 23:43 (seven years ago) link
lol from what i understand about the lyrics across the album....... um, i'm glad i'm not someone who hears lyrics first
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 18 January 2017 23:45 (seven years ago) link
lol it's a double LP though
― flappy bird, Thursday, 19 January 2017 00:22 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 19 January 2017 02:36 (seven years ago) link
anyways, very excited for this new album.
does he sing "while you drink a fifth from my ass"?
― Sufjan Grafton, Thursday, 19 January 2017 02:59 (seven years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Thursday, 19 January 2017 04:12 (seven years ago) link
if only the lyrics were as subtle as the arrangements. like keep your name, it's an awkward listen.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Thursday, 19 January 2017 09:52 (seven years ago) link
"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
― 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').
― flappy bird, Thursday, 19 January 2017 18:30 (seven years ago) link
really glad i can ignore lyrics so easily with this sort of music
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 19 January 2017 18:36 (seven years ago) link
when indie bros reach a certain age do they all turn into mark kozelek
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Thursday, 19 January 2017 18:39 (seven years ago) link
this is NOT a comment on quality but there is a little "hearts & bones" in "up in hudson"
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 19 January 2017 18:39 (seven years ago) link
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
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 January 2017 18:55 (seven years ago) link
the spoken breakdown in keep your name is excruciating. Up in Hudson is beautiful ototh.
― the klosterman weekend (s.clover), Thursday, 19 January 2017 19:12 (seven years ago) link
ILX will probably be interested to know Dawn Richard is on this album (singing a song co-written by Solange, I believe)
― Evan R, Thursday, 19 January 2017 20:10 (seven years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 19 January 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
Dave's singing has dramatically gotten better. I can't believe how good he sounds on little bubble.
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 19 January 2017 21:49 (seven years ago) link
imho dave's singing was always great, but he deffo more refined/practiced now
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 20 January 2017 09:37 (seven years ago) link
*he is
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 20 January 2017 09:39 (seven years ago) link
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
― fgti, Friday, 20 January 2017 13:25 (seven years ago) link
otm
― illbient microtonal poetry Surbiton (imago), Friday, 20 January 2017 15:04 (seven years ago) link
Felt similar about the line "What I want from art is truth, what you want is fame" from Keep Your Name.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 20 January 2017 15:43 (seven years ago) link
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.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 20 January 2017 15:47 (seven years ago) link
"keep your name"'s lyrics are just, ugh
unfortunate bc musically this is the most i've ever liked dp
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Friday, 20 January 2017 16:04 (seven years ago) link
Nauseating profile up on p4k today http://pitchfork.com/features/profile/10013-going-solo-dirty-projectors-dave-longstreth-steps-outside-the-frame/
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Islamic State of Mind (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 18:59 (seven years ago) link
I'm going to assume you made that sentence up 'cause there's no way I was gonna read that anyway.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
no that sentence is absolutely in there
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 19:02 (seven years ago) link
yep. along with pictures of Longstreth looking pensive in the woods
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 24 January 2017 19:04 (seven years ago) link
jfc burn it all down
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 19:05 (seven years ago) link
:D
― left hand hierarchy (imago), Tuesday, 24 January 2017 19:05 (seven years ago) link