WALKER ART CENTER PRESENTS DIRTY PROJECTORS Friday, March 6, 8 pm
DP’s at Terrace F Club, Princeton,Photo by jimbosity
Style-smashing Brooklyn art rock ensemble Dirty Projectors is a well-tuned pop supercollider. Leader Dave Longstreth’s compositional brilliance shines through rapid-fire sonic changes and fastidious pop/punk/soul songs that careen from tense to joyful to irreverent, achieving a soundscape that’s “completely strange and oddly familiar at the same time,” says David Byrne. Hear what lies ahead as DP premieres music from its forthcoming CD (and other surprises) in this specially constructed Walker evening. Click for more information
WHAT THE REVIEWERS ARE SAYING
“There’s a world of cross-references in Dirty Projectors’ music: stuttering modal riffs from Mali . . . pygmy antiphonal vocals, Captain Beefheart, Zimbabwean and Congolese rock, King Crimson, Talking Heads, Dan Hick and his Hock Licks.” —New York Times
“[Longstreth] is (why pull punches?) a nobrow genius, who claims to find similar solaces in the work of Beethoven, Wagner, Zeppelin and Timberlake.” —Pitchfork
RELATED LINKS
Interview with Dirty Projectors from Under the Radar
Review of Dirty Projectors’ Rise Above from Pitchfork Review of Dirty Projectors’ Rise Above from Spin
VIDEO CLIPS OF DIRTY PROJECTORS
@ the Southstreet Seaport show, Photo: BrooklynVegan