Dirty Projectors Profiled

Drowned in Sound discusses the avant-rock band Dirty Projectors.

Within minutes of meeting Dave Longstreth he’s carelessly cooing a Ne-Yo song as everyone else settles down around him. Weigh his wavering avant-garde up however you like, all these ears are hearing that’s akin to his broken songbird croon is Parades-era Prince. Last month it was Green Gartside’s white boy soul. Before that, Arthur Russell. It goes some way to illustrating how difficult it is to pin him and his Dirty Projectors down.

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