The Dirty Projectors + Bjork: Mount Wittenberg Orca
So I’m at a wedding last weekend and talking to a friend and she’s talking about this once-in-a-lifetime show she saw after The Dirty Projectors and Bjork expressed some sorta mutual admiration. So Longstreth wrote seven songs specifically as a collaboration between her and them and they played said songs in a library charity show thing in new york and that was that. My friend, Missy, mentioned that they’d promised a release, but it had been months and months and no news.
Three days later, they announce they’re releasing a CD. Which I got. And it’s pretty amazing. Mostly vocal, with very sparse instrumentation. Some almost sound like exercises in vocal composition, but I sorta dig it for that. Definitely worth checking out. You know where to look.
dirty projector(s)
I like this band. I think what finally put the new album over the edge for me was realizing that it’s actually a sort of throwback to 90’s R&B like TLC and En Vogue. But, y’know, modern. Hell, even the video for Stillness is the Move has a few apparently purposeful homages to TLC’s Waterfalls videos.
Anyway, I like parody posts.