Dirty Projectors . . .

[Miss Tasty Princess]

. . . get no love around here. :(

The Getty Address is an absolutely amazing album, IMO (not that the previous three and Dave's solo album weren't great, mind you).

So, am I alone in digging this stuff or are DP an unknown quantity in these parts or what?

[johansen smith]

I tried listening to whichever album had the drawing of the nude man on the cover a few times but could never get into it.

[earl grey]

what do they sound like? a guy i went to school with recently toured with them, which got me intrigued ... haven't heard them yet though.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

A mixture of keening vocals, cut-up chamber music (all self composed), soul, opera, indie rock, etc. Here's a bunch of sound clips from all the DP releases (but none from leader Dave Longstreth's wonderful, pre-DP solo album The Graceful Fallen Mango):

http://www.westernvinyl.com/dirty_sounds.htm

[bitterfruit]

I picked up a promo copy of "The Getty Address" for a dollar at Criminal today at their annual sidewalk sale. It's R&B for nerds! I love it. They're not afraid to lay down the kick drums either.

Edit: By the way, did you buy an "Ode To LA" single. I saw it in your listeining pile recently, but I can't seem to find it.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

I spent $25 at Criminal this morning. $5 for a Hello Kitty lunch box for next Christmas for my neice the HK fan, $2 for an OutKast DVD and $18 on 18 CDs that looked either interesting or were by bands I'd actually heard of. The only one I've listened to so far is Dark-Noize-Recordings presents The First Trance Opera of the World but it's not what I was hoping for (techno beats with operatic arias) but just plain old technoy stuff. It's not bad but I doubt I'll ever spin it again.

I bought the "Ode to L.A." 10" from www.HMV.co.uk but they already have it listed as no longer available.

[bitterfruit]

It's not even listed at Amazon. What's on it?

Thanks for the DP reco by the way. I'm digging it.

[Miss Tasty Princess]

The b-side is a cover of Hank Sr.'s "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." It's pretty good but probably my least favorite of all their b-sides. It's supposedly limited to 2000 copies but the number on mine is in the 2000 range. I saw some folks listing it at www.MusicStack.com recently (similar to GEMM.com).

Glad you like the DP CD!

[tinobeat]

The Graceful Fallen Mango is stunning. I saw Dave Longstreth play in a basement years ago and he gave me a copy afterwards. Really strange and beautiful. I saw him later as Dirty Projectors and it didn't work for me as much for some reason (probably more my mental state that night), but I got Slaves Graves and Ballads, and that's tremendous as well.

insanely talented kid.

[bitterfruit]

This (http://www.westernvinyl.com/letter%20to%20don%20henley.doc) is pretty fascinating. It reiterates my need to associate an artist’s beliefs with the art.