Dirty Projectors: 5EPs This is a new band now, distinct from the one who made Rise Above and Bitte Orca, and they’re still in the process of figuring out what that means. Read More
Dirty Projectors: Super João Dave Longstreth steps back into the spotlight for the third installment in Dirty Projectors’ Five EPs series. Read More
Dirty Projectors: Flight Tower EP Two releases in, this EP series is destined to be one of the most compelling things Dirty Projectors have done in quite some time. Read More
Concert Review: Dirty Projectors/Deerhunter 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. Read More
Dirty Projectors: Lamp Lit Prose Dirty Projectors are back with Lamp Lit Prose, an album that feels like the purposeful antithesis of its predecessor. Read More
Concert Review: Dirty Projectors 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. Read More
Dirty Projectors: Dirty Projectors There is something laudable in the emotional truth revealed here. Read More
Concert Review: Dirty Projectors/Wye Oak 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 … Read More
Dirty Projectors: Swing Lo Magellan [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, … Read More
Concert Review: TV on the Radio/Dirty Projectors 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 … Read More