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Tag: Dirty Projectors

  • AMN Picks of the Week

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    Maurizio Bianchi via last.fm Here is where I post, at a frequency of about once a week, a list of the new music that has caught my attention that week. All of the releases listed below I’ve heard for the first time this week and come recommended. Don’t take the categories too seriously. Shurdut, Jeffrey…

  • Bjork and Dirty Projectors – Musical Ambitions Overflow

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    An odd pairing is reivewed: The music was quiet: just voices and modestly amplified acoustic instruments. But the songs were hugely complex and ambitious, announcing their destination in the lyrics: “on and on and ever onward.” Bjork was collaborating on a suite of six very new songs with Dirty Projectors, the New York City band…

  • Dirty Projectors Profiled

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    Image by Getty Images via Daylife 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…