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Dirty Projectors are
the project of Dave Longstreth, a
former Yale student who left college to become one of the most prolific and
unique indie singer/songwriters of the early 2000s. In early 2002 Longstrethreleased his
first album, The Graceful Fallen
Mango, under his own name on the This Heart Plays Records imprint.
Largely recorded on four-track with the help of friends in like-minded projects
such as Wolf Colonel and Dear Nora, the album
introduced Longstreth's
distinctive crooning voice and equally unique approach to arrangements and both
lo-fi and hi-fi production. As he continued to record, Longstreth played shows
with contemporaries like the Microphones, Bobby Birdman, and[[[[VVRSSNN]]]] (aka Yume Bitsu's Adam Forkner). Forkner helped record
his next album, The Glad Fact, which
was the first to bear the Dirty Projectors name
and arrived on Western Vinyl in fall 2003.
This
was followed quickly by Morning Better Last!,
an album culled from three triple albums he recorded in 2001 and 2002; it was an
Internet-only release on States Rights. Slaves' Graves &
Ballads, whichLongstreth described as
"a song-journey for me singing with a ten-piece chamber group called the Orchestral Society for the
Preservation of the Orchestra," arrived in early 2004 as a split
release on Western Vinyl and Happy Happy Birthday to Me Records. The 2005
album The Getty Address was
a Don Henley-themed
concept album that was followed a year later by the New Attitude EP. Rise Above from 2007
reinterpreted songs from Black Flag's classic
hardcore punk album Damaged, and then Bitte Orca appeared in
2009 with some of the band's most accessible songs to date. In 2010 the group
collaborated with Björk on Mount Wittenberg Orca,
an EP that benefitted the National Geographic Society Oceans Project; it was
available only digitally for a year, then received a physical release on CD and
vinyl in 2011. Their next proper full-length, Swing Lo Magellan, arrived in in
the summer of 2012.
Get tickets to the Dirty Projectors upcoming show
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