Dirty Projectors

Sorry lol I just woke up

I really like the new line-up and I really was upset about that last album

A song doesn't need to be 'about' something, a song IS something.

i'm pleasantly surprised by how good this is, he's playing to his strengths again and most importantly not coming across as a total asshole the entire time

Xpost I mean some of us do write shitty songs about our ex lovers and it is genuinely therapeutic but we don't have to release them.

This is deer

I think I meant some general term of positivity but I'm a few beers in shrug

it's 3 in the afternoon

not everywhere

i know i know...

Shouldn’t be surprised at lack of press/enthusiasm/hype for a new DP album but I am. Boy that s/t really did a number on their brand for lack of a better word

And I know he got a lot of bad press for it but damn Longstreth should be thanking his lucky stars every day that it didn’t come out after October 2017

this is really great. enjoying the absence of uncomfortable lyrics.

I think this might be his best album, it feels so summery and pop, and I love the brass arrangements. I really was not expecting this at all, it's such a turnaround from the last one

even ignoring the ugly lyrics, the last album was a fairly tuneless mess - I'd only really keep Little Bubble and Cool Your Heart from it

Up in Hudson was great, too. Keep Your Name also gets stuck in my head a lot still.

Keep forgetting to bump this thread and say that I think Lamp Lit Prose is fucking great and easily the best thing they've ever done besides Bitte Orca. The perfect move to make after the 2017 s/t.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBpL1t8IK0E

I Feel Energy is the standout for me but I really love the whole thing, kinda surprised by the negative reception it's been getting elsewhere

kinda surprised by the negative reception it's been getting elsewhere

While I have read one or two extremely negative reviews for it, it seems like it's generally getting 4/5 off most people: http://www.metacritic.com/music/lamp-lit-prose/dirty-projectors

Maybe some negativity (or rather, indifference) toward it has to do with either a latent reaction to the s/t record or the general peak-2009-ness of DPs

Been listening to it a lot myself and finding it surprising how home-made it sounds, by which I mean that it's largely acoustic guitar/drums right at the centre of the songs and it feels like a lineage (in a recording/production sense) back to the really early DPs records is evident. Was surprised to see in the track credits that Dave is basically playing absolutely everything on the tracks.

Love this album to death; too many standout tracks to list. My only complaint is that "Zombie Conqueror" --> "Blue Bird" can feel like a bit of a slog if I'm not in the right mood... I don't know whether those two actually repeat their hooks any more often than e.g. "I Feel Energy" or "I Found It In U" or "Right Now", but they *feel* more repetitive.

Oh yeah, and some of the lyrics on "Break-Thru" are a bit cringey (but I like Dave even when he's cringey, he seems to come by it honestly).

While there are moments here that remind me of Prince (esp. the squeaky-clean funk guitar, falsetto wailing, & vocal harmonies of "I Feel Energy"), I played the album for my father & he made the much more apt comparison to Squeeze

I got super into Ava Luna thanks to a tiny mention on this thread. They're playing the UK next week but seem to have almost zero profile here (Manchester date just been cancelled and changed to Cardiff - £6.50 a ticket!). Wish there was a thread for them but I don't really have the ILM juice or a ton of insights to offer. Except to say that, if I had created Ice Level (the music + the video), I'd expect the world to be fundamentally altered within 24hrs of uploading it to YouTube, not just 83k views in six years.

ava luna rules

Ava Luna are one of the best bands imo

They've never got any play or promotion in Europe whatsoever.

been really into "lamp lit prose" recently, such a tight, breezy return to form

break-thru is cool

whole album is cool, i agree with k3vin k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzHGYtIqLig

New video from new album with new band (i.e. Lamp Lit Prose touring group). Maia Friedman as lead vocalist and co-lyricist.

P chill and it is growing on me.

That's a nice song. I really loved Bitte Orca and Swing Lo Magellan, but didn't like it when he started changing it up and acting like a creep. Should I revisit?

Lamp Lit Prose was a lot less creepy and very good

yeah the s/t was not very good but lamp lit prose is maybe my favourite dp album

i would characterise the s/t as more jerk than creep

lamp lit prose was recorded all by dave with guest vocalists added. the new record i think is recorded with the band put together to tour lamp lit prose

hadnt realised that overlord was from an EP that came out in March. it's good! there's also a related playlist on Spotify full of jams that they put up w Arthur Russell, 70s Dylan, judee sill etc

there's another EP on its way, this is the single from it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtAcgEtY_CM

with three other EPs also set for release this year. the gimmick is a different band member sings lead on each, except the last which will have everyone

The Windows Open playlist is a real treat.

I had a big hunch they were gonna do EPs with each of the singers taking the lead a month ago, especially after Windows Open was all Maya and it came from a such as it was derived from that Portland indie-folk root of the DPs catalogue

I hope they do a bananas orchestral EP amongst the later releases too

3rd EP out today. really into these

I love this song so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyU5dHmmFmE

With the latest releases it feels like the new band has come into its own and stopped trying to sound like the band with Amber and Angel. I did love a few tracks on Lamp Lit Prose but it still felt a little like Dave was trying to keep something going that wasn't there anymore.

Holy Mackerel is such a jam. I like stripped-down bossa nova DPs, but also the full-on electronic production too. He's gotten so good at it and Lamp Lit Prose is a high point.

agree his dancey/R&B-style production is ace

I was recently with my aging millennial friends who stopped listening to much new music by 2012, and trying to convince them that Dirty Projectors, Vampire Weekend, and Grizzly Bear had all released their best albums within the last three years.

With the latest releases it feels like the new band has come into its own and stopped trying to sound like the band with Amber and Angel. I did love a few tracks on Lamp Lit Prose but it still felt a little like Dave was trying to keep something going that wasn't there anymore.

The new band was put together after Lamp Lit Prose, which was almost all Dave and guest vocalists doing a song each with him.

I think the new stuff feels quite related to The Glad Fact era, except each of the elements is way more developed just by being a more experienced writer. Super excited to see what the next two EPs hold.

I am very into the new EPs, mostly because Felicia is amazing. "Super Joao" is somewhat disappointing to me because, well, 'the bossanova mood is not created'

I'm very curious about the songwriting process, since it feels very obvious what is a Dave melody and what isn't, no matter who's singing it (like, even when Rihanna is the one singing it).

the press release said that dave wrote everything for these EPs, except for the lyrics which were a collaboration between him and whichever band member is singing lead for each EP

felicia's other band gemma i really good, i've been really into their album feeling's not a tempo lately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZtETeYGVYM

I read that DL collaborated with Kyle from Little Wings on the lyrics for Super João

I hope they do a bananas orchestral EP amongst the later releases too

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Ha I was just thinking of that prediction. Will the last one be a big groovy Bitte Orca vibe?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzhCV1nla7g

last EP out soon

love this one

the tiny desk concert was lovely.

great track