Dirty Projectors

i can hear it in the guitars a little bit

did not know that is v. surprising

funny, i've just been getting around to rise above. does the new stuff have all kinds of crazy-ass tempo changes?

here and there, i guess, but that's not really what i took from it

yes it does

sweet

http://stereogum.com/archives/premature-evaluation/premature-evaluation-dirty-projectors-bitte-orca_063902.html?utm_source=ss&utm_medium=tw

I wish the album were longer. It was great, then Flourescent Half-Dome made my head explode, then it was over.

glad this is getting a lot of hype

i don't know about longer. it's a lot to digest as it is.

yeah, I always think these guys albums are just too long, too much sprawl, which is part of their charm, but come on.

i love great, short albums

^^^^

always leave 'em wanting more

usually, but with DP its like the excess of it, the messy swerve of the songs and drunken runtimes

would i like these guys

i think so, louis

there's a live video of 'stillness is the move' too but it doesn't sound as good without the doubled vocals

these dudes are such good musicians that it pisses me off

groovy, will check 'em (was probably going to anyway, as volcano! who are pretty much my favourite new(ish) American band have received DP comparisons)

p.s. great short albums are awesome but so are sprawling 50-minute thrillrides ^_^

cheers n/a!

srsly mention volcano one more fucking time

these dudes are such good musicians that it pisses me off

seriously, as a dude who cannot really play and sing at the same time i got mad jealous when i saw them.

uh 50 minutes is still a pretty short album

there's a live video of 'stillness is the move' too but it doesn't sound as good without the doubled vocals

That's interesting. When I heard studio "Stillness", I said, "Why the doubled vocals? Amber's a better singer than Janet Jackson, you don't need this."

I thought you were talking about 35-minute specials, by "50-minute" I kinda meant "between 50 and 60" although 60-80 is also fine by me if you've got the material and ability to sustain narrative

anyway, these guys. will listen to "Rise Above" on Spotify right now and then hunt down the new one

I disagree with this blogotheque shit in theory, but this video is it in wondrous actuality.

t-track on rise above = gr8

The newie is awesome, also kind of detached and odd whilst being warm and normal at the same time. They were utterly amazing the other week as well, watching them do their interwoven vocal parts ('Remade Horizon') is proper gobsmacking. Genius I say, genius stuff. And that Blogotheque vid with the three Rise Above songs on is WOWOWOWOW.

Ahem. Hyperbole over.

yeah i agree w/ cutty wrt how much there is to digest-- i've listened to this like 5 or 6 times through over the past two days and still feel like i haven't grasped any of it. it's also the only thing i actively want to listen to right now.

and wrt the bands i brought up -- the vampire weekend one to me seems like an obvious one especially in some of the ringing guitar tones and the guy's vocals (i know DP predated VW but go along w/ me) and the fiery furnaces was about the time changes mostly but also that they are jarring but never seem out of place or anything. also something like "stillness is the move" could've been on 'bitter tea' (thinking of that album's "benton harbor blues" or "waiting to know you")

as for menomena, i think DP sound a lot like them on this album when they go into the rawk bits, like these real crunching guitars out of nowhere. also menomena have some weird time changes as well iirc

It's pretty good, and honors their live show (loved their set at Pitchfork Festival last summer), but the guy's vocals annoy the fuck out of me when he decides to unleash trills.

The girls are much tougher and specific ("Two Doves").

those girls are serious fucking singers, but so is he in a weird way. guitar lines are nuts. These guys are still so tied to I Will Truck which is the first song I heard by them and sounds like a such a mission statement to me.

lol, Jordan I thought you were talking about the Muppets earlier.

yeah this year for some reason i find myself falling in love with weird/hyper-emotive vocalists (longstreth, antony) whose contemporaries i otherwise tend to give the eyeroll

beyoncé

This one is more immediate than Rise Above. His vocals remind me a bit of Green Garside.

"two doves" is just about the best song i've heard this year. i don't think this is the lyric, but i like to pretend the second verse goes "but our bed is like a failure". that's the way i heard it the first few times, and it's a pretty devastating thing to hear in the context of that song

love the these days references

"Your hair is like an an eagle/ your two eyes are like two doves/But our bed is like a failure."

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this is pretty dope imo. it does feel more reigned in & streamlined, but not in a bad way (although i love it when the feel changes like in the middle of 'temecula sunrise' and it's hard to figure out if it's a metric modulation or a straight-up tempo shift). there are some great handclaps too.

"two doves" is pretty amazing though i feel weird thinking it's one of the best on the album since it doesn't really sound like dirty projectors

i don't think this is the lyric, but i like to pretend the second verse goes "but our bed is like a failure"

i don't know what else it would be?

word, it's pretty but if the whole album was like this i wouldn't be interested.

i really like "remade horizon"

remade horizon is unfuckwithable

Psyched to hear this. Last one was recorded upstairs from my bedroom (loudly) at totally weird hours for me so by the time it was done I was in no way inclined to revisit. These new songs are insane live and i got great faith.

"Your hair is like an an eagle/ your two eyes are like two doves/But our bed is like a failure."

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― I'm crossing over into enterprise (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, April 16, 2009 1:44 PM (1 hour ago)

yeah that's what i think i hear too, but sometimes i hear "feather" and i remember someone quoting it somewhere as "feather" too recently. i definitely want it to be "failure"

that song, though. it's amazing to me that no one has written that song before, i feel like it belongs in an old ass romance movie