Dirty Projectors

AlbumFeb 21 / 20179 songs, 48m 17s
Alternative R&B Art Pop Glitch Pop
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Dirty Projectors announce their long-awaited 7th LP. The new album does everything we want and expect from Dirty Projectors — but in a way we never could have imagined or anticipated. In a career of surprising conceptual gambits, unexpected stylistic evolutions, and continually changing lineups — this is, as DJ Khaled says, “ANOTHER ONE”! Dirty Projectors will be out February 24th, 2017 on Domino.

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In what is ostensibly a solo record with a few high-profile collaborations, Dave Longstreth masterfully peels away layer after layer of heartbreak across a strange, dizzying pop album.

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David Longstreth didn’t need to spout off on Instagram to set his musical project, Dirty Projectors, apart from the last 15 years of indie rock that it is generally associated with. Longstreth’s music does that on its own. His best-known song, 2009’s “Stillness Is The Move,” makes more sense as a cover by Solange than…

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Despite many changes in personnel, the eighth full-length from Dirty Projectors finds Longstreth alone.

David Longstreth returns with the group’s first album in nearly five years

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Read our review of Dirty Projectors' daring new self-titled LP, which explores bandleader Dave Longstreth's breakup with former member Amber Coffman.

A mechanical glitching puzzle of a record.

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Since the last time Longstreth made a Dirty Projectors album (2012's Swing Lo Magellan), his long-term relationship with Amber Coffman, who sang and played guitar with the group, ended.

The seventh album from Dirty Projectors sees frontman David Longstreth present an unflinchingly honest exploration of a break-up.

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In the insular world of celebrity indie rockers, David Longstreth and Amber Coffman were our Brangelina, our Bennifer — a powerhouse couple...

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Calling Dirty Projectors an experimental band, as they are commonly labeled, tells us everything and nothing about output ranging from obscure cultural references to guitar driven art rock.

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Nearly five years on from ‘Swing Lo Magellan’, and it appears that the entire foundational bedrock of Dirty Projectors has undergone a

David Longstreth’s breakup with former bandmate Amber Coffman is inescapable on this incendiary set

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The theme of heartbreak is deep and consuming on Dirty Projectors' new self-titled album, the follow-up to 2012's ‘Swing Lo Magellan’.

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'Dirty Projectors' by Dirty Projectors, album review by Gregory Adams. The full-length comes out on February 24th via Domino Records.

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There is something laudable in the emotional truth revealed here.

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