I'm pretty sure Dirty Projectors lead singer Dave Longstreth is one of the weirdest dudes ever. I'm pretty sure Dirty Projectors are one of the weirdest bands ever. I'm also pretty sure that Bitte Orca, the band's latest studio album (out on June 9th), is going to blow my mind like few records can.
See, The Getty Address kinda changed my life. It has earned a permanent spot next to Graceland on my Favorite Albums Of All Time list. The songwriting and musicianship on that record are imperfectly perfect - I wouldn't change a single note.
And here's the thing. Everything I have heard from Dirty Projectors in the past 6 months has been better. "Knotty Pine", the collaboration they did with David Byrne for Dark Was The Night, was a highlight on a phenomenal compilation. "Stillness Is The Move", Bitte Orca's lead single, showed off Angel Deradoorian and Amber Coffman's vocals like few Projectors tracks have - and they somehow managed to match Longstreth's weird intensity. And then this.
This new song, "No Intention". I can't get over it. I can't even get halfway up it.
It takes the best parts of pre-Rise Above Dirty Projectors and grafts them onto the newer, more polished plant that the band has become in the past couple years. It's beautiful, weird, haunting, and somehow catchy. Blows my mind.
Time for me to stop talking and go listen to this track 37 more times today.
Dirty Projectors - No Intention (YSI) (filesavr)
Dirty Projectors and David Byrne - Knotty Pine (YSI) (filesavr)
Dave Longstreth - Lay Down Restless Bones (YSI) (filesavr)
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