Short description
Brooklyn-based experimental indie group Dirty Projectors is the brainchild of Dave Longstreth, who constantly uses different musicians to bring his ideas to life. 'Bitte Orca' is the follow-up to 2007's 'Rose Above' and the first the band have recorded since signing with Domino in April 2008. Amber Coffman and Angel Deradoorian provide sumptuous unpredictable and often falsetto vocal melodies on this vibrant, expressive record. Includes the infectious single 'Stillness Is The Move'.
Review
Spin - "Longstreth's prickly surface belies a bright pop center: tart, sweet, and gushing all at once."
Entertainment Weekly - "[With] a unified style that's all the more glorious for its strangeness." -- Grade: A-
Q - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[F]uelled by a heightened sense of drama, BITTE ORCA lurches from the semi-classical operatics of 'Stillness Is The Move' to the galloping riffs of the title track..."
CMJ - "This combination of total shreddage and siren-like female vocals will captivate listeners from any horizon."
Spin - Ranked #31 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2009" -- "The group's pinballing harmonies and capricious time signatures result in peaks of exuberant classicism..."
Uncut - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his is the group's closest stab yet at transmuting their peculiar interests into joyful, ecstatic pop. 'Cannibal Resource' is an impossibly sunny opener..."
Spin (p.90) - "Longstreth's prickly surface belies a bright pop center: tart, sweet, and gushing all at once."
Mojo (07/09 p.100) - "This is fresh music, making exciting shapes with primitive resources...there are constant flowerings of devastating prettiness..."
The Guardian - "These New Yorkers' fifth album continues to mark them out as one of rock's most compelling curiosities"
Uncut - "Artful, adventurous and ecstatic avant garde pop - nothing less than a modern equivalant of Talking Heads' FEAR OF MUSIC"
The Times - "This is art-pop in which the words on either side of the hyphen are equally balanced"
Clash - "A genre-bending feat of studied musicianship, this really is one not to be missed"