Dirty Projectors - The Getty Address - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The follow-up to 2007's critically acclaimed and Domino debut RISE ABOVE. Their fifth is a big rock album by design. It's idiosyncratic and sincere take on popular music is reminiscent of David Byrne with whom Dirty Projectors collaborated for the 2009 compilation DARK WAS THE NIGHT. In many ways, group leader David Longstreth could be seen as this generation's answer to Byrne, a distinctive torchbearer of labyrinthine song arrangements that go down easy.

SWING LO MAGELLAN has both the handmade intimacy of a love letter and the widescreen grandeur of a blockbuster, and if that sounds like a paradox - it's because it was until now.

Dirty Projectors - Slaves' Graves and Ballads [COMPACT DISCS] date 06/08/2004