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Dirty Projectors – While You're Here
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Brooklyn, New York, United States (2002 – present)
Based in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn with connections to the Portland, OR music scene, the group has produced a distinctive sound of electronic experimentation, melded with traditional instruments and harmonically complex vocals. Their recordings range from Prince-style one-man-recording-studio productions (The Glad Fact), to arranged orchestrations (the “Slaves’ Graves” half of Slaves’ Graves & Ballads), to basic voice over nylon-string guitar (the “Ballads” half of the aforementioned) to an amalgamation of all these tactics (the ‘glitch opera’ of The Getty Address and the mixed nature of New Attitude EP). Throughout, Longstreth’s aggressively melodic vocals provide a consistent identity for otherwise widely divergent approaches to pop music. Longstreth claims influences ranging from Don Henley to Mariah Carey. The former’s influence is most easily seen in The Getty Address album, which is a conceptual opera written from the point of view of Henley as a Spanish Conquistador, though the latter’s vocal gymnastics clearly provide a clue to Longstreth’s approach.
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Swing Lo Magellan
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peterdupont1
Swing Lo Magellan is such a trip on headphones [3]
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natetastic
v thanks!
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sammyenn
@natetastic it's called beautiful mother off of the mount wittenberg orca ep with bjork.
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EdgeLike
So they're the opening act for the national? Well I have to go now.
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natetastic
on monday they played a song i haven't heard before, there were ~3 sections to it, all of them structurally the same, and each section kind of crescendoed with amber singing really fast, then all three women doing some "aaaAAAaaa", then a pause (if i'm remembering right). anybody know what song this is / is it new maybe?
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GagaZaynLover
Swing Lo Magellan is such a trip on headphones [2]
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h0bbes_
Best review so far, imho: http://rdd.me/xatxpfit
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tedbassman
For french speakers, Swing lo Magellan review : http://www.w-fenec.org/rock/dirty-projectors,7749,swing-lo-magellan.html
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omarhimself
Swing Lo Magellan is such a trip on headphones haha. They pan different parts of their tracks all over the place. It's awesomely disorienting.
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Chadipoo
impregnable pants
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tokyochorus
But Dirty Projector's aren't giving up their prickly braininess-- after all, the title of the song contains the word "impregnable," which you don’t hear too often in conversation.
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c0rdell
really preferring Swing Lo to Bitte Orca right now
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hanskiros
Fall in love with Climax cover at first listen !
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flowersonthewal
inspired by the dirtiest of projectors hehe :) http://ryanfrailich.bandcamp.com/track/you-fell-into-my-grave
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R-Mac
been listening to a lot of Rise Above lately, hahaha. I'm scared of listening to Black Flack's Damaged now.
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catplaza
SLM, my #1 AOTY http://fnewsmagazine.com/2013/01/album-of-the-year-nominee-swing-lo-magellan-by-dirty-projectors/
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sinztye
lol, what a critics' favorite
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luizprigol
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youngandgifted
Swing Lo Magellan is #7 on Ca Va Cool's Best Albums of 2012: http://www.cavacool.com/feature/best-albums-2012-2/
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caffeineandvase
albums of the year '12 http://www.zolinsagt.de/2012/12/die-besten-alben-des-jahres-2012-10-1.html
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