Dirty Projectors

anyways, very excited for this new album.

does he sing "while you drink a fifth from my ass"?

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

if only the lyrics were as subtle as the arrangements. like keep your name, it's an awkward listen.

"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

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').

really glad i can ignore lyrics so easily with this sort of music

when indie bros reach a certain age do they all turn into mark kozelek

this is NOT a comment on quality but there is a little "hearts & bones" in "up in hudson"

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

the spoken breakdown in keep your name is excruciating. Up in Hudson is beautiful ototh.

ILX will probably be interested to know Dawn Richard is on this album (singing a song co-written by Solange, I believe)

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.

Dave's singing has dramatically gotten better. I can't believe how good he sounds on little bubble.

imho dave's singing was always great, but he deffo more refined/practiced now

*he is

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

otm

Felt similar about the line "What I want from art is truth, what you want is fame" from Keep Your Name.

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.

"keep your name"'s lyrics are just, ugh

unfortunate bc musically this is the most i've ever liked dp

Nauseating profile up on p4k today http://pitchfork.com/features/profile/10013-going-solo-dirty-projectors-dave-longstreth-steps-outside-the-frame/

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.

I'm going to assume you made that sentence up 'cause there's no way I was gonna read that anyway.

no that sentence is absolutely in there

yep. along with pictures of Longstreth looking pensive in the woods

jfc burn it all down

:D

Interesting that he produced Coffman's album, I guess.

also that he recorded this new album a year and a half ago

Did Eli Cash write this:

"They took breaks listening to bachata, dancehall, Jorge Ben’s A Tábua De Esmeralda, music where even harmonic elements are framed as rhythm, and at night stood out by the train tracks with burritos, staring up at the factory silos nearby, filled with corn syrup."

Still kinda enjoyed it and hoping against hope that I can take DL's "the songs are not autobiography" claim seriously.

So this new song with Dawn Richard

this is easily the best of the new songs so far, the end with the overlapping vocals is really nice

http://www.stereogum.com/1924017/dirty-projectors-fleet-foxes-frontmen-discuss-the-bad-and-bougie-state-of-indie-rock-today/news/

In which Dave Longstreth of Dirty Projectors starts a conversation about how indie rock is resting its laurels on the unearned, lazy appropriation of other people's ideas by extensively quoting "Bad and Boujee".

"well removed from the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience"

my new display name

feels great

The whole thing is pretty vomitous. Like, yeah, you guys are real fuckin' artists, man. Critics of society, even.

Dick Longstretch

lol @ GAPDY nostalgia

fleet foxes guy is slightly less of a complete disaster there than dave wanker

that was otm though, about GAPDY being the last time indie was proggy

Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste chimed in, too, with a screaming face emoji.

Ed Droste otm.

that was otm though, about GAPDY being the last time indie was proggy

― flopson, Friday, 10 February 2017 18:07 (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

someone wants to be deluged in links

that is such a pathetically closed-minded perspective

also all those bands have made more records since 2009...

Ahhh this is awful

"Refined and effete, well removed from the rain drops and drop tops of lived, earned experience"

Lifting your guitar-style wholesale from Malian players, lyrics about listening to Tupac and Kanye, this is imo the most dangerous and insidious form of cultural white supremacy, that kind that is colonialism masquerading as wokeness

And if somebody uses "effete" as a pejorative again I will limp-wristedly pull a gun on them

god i wish jamie from xiu xiu hadn't deleted his tweet about Longstreth, it was something like "do you KNOW that Dave Longstreth is a /something/ with fucked ideas about colonialism?"

I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY PERSON WHO REMEMBERED THIS!

was something like 'racist notions about eastern european ethnicity' i think