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"a stunning record, including some of the best music the band has ever
made." -SPIN ON _DIRTY PROJECTORS_
ABOUT THE SHOW:
Doors 7:30pm / Show 8:30pm
Dirty Projectors are the creation 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, Longstreth
released 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,
which Longstreth 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. After breaking up with his romantic partner and
frequent collaborator Amber Coffman, Longstreth found himself writing
songs that dealt with personal issues in a way he had not approached
in the past. The songs formed the core of Dirty Projectors'
self-titled ninth album, released in February 2017. ~ Heather Phares,
Rovi
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