Video: Dirty Projectors, “Stillness is the Move”
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It seems like a million years ago that Dirty Projectors were playing in warehouses around New York, but such is the power of “Stillness is the Move,” their exceptional single from Bitte Orca. To keep the momentum going, the band hung out in the woods with a bunch of llamas and pine trees and we still cannot get enough. Lucky for us, the video gives us an excuse to continue talking about this song whenever the opportunity arises.
Audio: Dirty Projectors’ Bitte Orca
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Please at least listen until track six, “Useful Chamber,” when Dave Longstreth shreds like Yngwie.
Stream: Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca (via Gorilla vs Bear)
Freeload: Dirty Projectors, “Stillness is the Move”
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Hey this song is totally weird and awesome. Check out some other music if you want—this is a lot better.
Download: Dirty Projectors, “Stillness is the Move” (mailing list subscription required)
Freeload: Dirty Projectors & David Byrne, “Knotty Pine”
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Next month, Red Hot, the longstanding organization dedicated to fighting global AIDS, will release its 20th compilation to note its 20th year of existence, and this time around they’ve collected an indie rock justice league to record special covers, collaborations and exclusives for Dark Was The Night. Over the next month, they’ll be previewing a track a day on the Dark Was The Night MySpace, but to kick things off they’ve made the first song on the first disc available for free. And if the rest of the 31 songs are as good as this one, we might have to forget all about Animal Collective. Not really, but seriously, Dirty Projectors and David Byrne are match made in is-this-dude-crazy-or-just-kind-of-shy heaven and “Knotty Pine” just brought the sun out in New York. Check the tracklist after the jump and buy the Red Hot compilation on February 17th.
Download: Dirty Projectors & David Byrne, “Knotty Pine”
Schnipper’s Slept On
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Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s The Dirty Projector’s The Glad Fact. Download “Naked We Made It” from the album, buy The Glad Fact and read Schnipper’s thoughts on the album after the jump.
FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ Series #5: Rubik’s Cube
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We’ve been staring at Matt Furie’s cover art for hours trying to pick our favorite crazy looking monster thing. Right now we are stuck on the melted marshmallow ghost but ask us again in a minute and it might be the Rubix Cube robot in the bottom left. We don’t have to wonder about which song on this FADER/Southern Comfort 7″ we like the most, because both are ill. Side A is a Dirty Projectors edit of their own cover of Black Flag’s “Police Story,” going down compelling and uneasy, while Side B holds “Blue Steel,” a warm and relatively low key White Williams piano jam full of hidden layers and an 8-bit undercurrent that will keep us listening breathlessly until the next record.
We have a handful of copies to give away, so email your mailing address to contests@thefader.com with the subject heading “Seven.”
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posted on Jan 7, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS, MUSIC tags Dirty Projectors, FADER/SoCo 7-inch, FADER/Southern Comfort 7", Matt Furie, Series, White Williams
DEPRESSSSED
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We watched a lot of Dirty Projectors videos lately and it made us think about appropriation. The last thing we’re ever invested in is any made up notion of authenticity, and they’ve shredded and mushed up the common idea of a cover. After the jump, read some deep shit about this and watch four different versions of the song “Depression,” three by Black Flag with three different singers and one by Dirty Projectors.
Live: Dirty Projectors at Bowery Ballroom
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Dave Longstreth has a weird body and good style. Performing last night with his group Dirty Projectors he wore an oversized purple sweatshirt, swathed himself in it, pulled the hood down around his chest so that it looked between a shawl and a baby carrier. He’s a lefty playing an upside down guitar with a right-angled crooked wrist. He’s got a boney face, a long neck that he uses to jut it, a late 20s/early 30s devil-lock and a band of a fast and electronic drummer and two choral women to back and boost him in his swirly quest to mimic and pastiche Black Flag’s Damaged.
Schnipper’s Slept On
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Each Tuesday, FADER editor Matthew Schnipper highlights an underappreciated recent release he thinks we need to know about. This week it’s Dirty Projectors’ album The Getty Address which you can buy here. Listen to “Jolly Jolly Jolly Ego” from the record down below and read about it after the jump.
