Dave Longstreth steps back into the spotlight for the third installment in Dirty Projectors’ Five EPs series.

Two releases in, this EP series is destined to be one of the most compelling things Dirty Projectors have done in quite some time.

There was a time when a double bill of Brooklyn pop weirdos Dirty Projectors and Atlanta dream-pop shredders Deerhunter would pack a building twice the size of the 1,400-capacity Roseland.

Dirty Projectors are back with Lamp Lit Prose, an album that feels like the purposeful antithesis of its predecessor.

For as much of a party foul as it is to promote an album that the audience can’t yet buy, Dirty Projectors still provided enough already well-loved material to keep the show engaging.

There is something laudable in the emotional truth revealed here.

There’s danger in music outfits becoming too big for their britches. When making the jump from small, intimate venues to larger (and largely less personal) ones, the desire to ‘scale up’ the sound can come at other elements’ expense. This was exemplified during the first efforts of Wye Oak’s recent set opening for Dirty Projectors – following a disappointing, overpowering …

[xrr rating=4.25/5]With only gap-toothed guitar licks, soukous rhythms and principal David Longstreth’s distinguishable, obtuse vocal turns passing for continuity, every Dirty Projectors album is a venture in novelty, a fact no less true of Swing Lo Magellan. Bereft of 2009 breakthrough Bitte Orca’s guitar rock-bordering flirtations with bombast, ragged anchors “Temecula Sunrise” and “Useful Chamber” providing that album’s primary bite, …

All bets are off at a concert. Manners and social mores are more or less tossed to the side. I remember a moment of Gimme Shelter where a guy completely off his face is more or less seizuring his way over a crowd. People jostle, people push. We’re all atheists in the mosh pit. It’s also tough being tall and …

Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca Rating: 4.5 Label: Domino Records Coming around on Dirty Projectors isn’t as easy as it sounds. Even before their experimental riff on Black Flag’s Damaged, the legend of Dave Longstreth’s experimental orchestral tinkering never sold me as being more inspired or captivating as any of their peers, even with a more stable and lasting ensemble in …