Lamp Lit Prose

AlbumJul 13 / 201810 songs, 37m 25s
Art Pop Indie Pop
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7.4 / 10

Dave Longstreth is on a madcap quest for personal and political salvation on his latest album, reviving a more hopeful, chipper kind of songwriting of his past.

B

Dirty Projectors’ Lamp Lit Prose calls to mind the band’s late-’00s peak, while Deafheaven reach higher on album No. 4, and Lotic softens their approach on debut Power. These, plus Pram’s first album in 11 years in this week’s notable new releases.

6 / 10

Love triumphs on the band's most intriguing and joyous album since 2009's breakthrough 'Bitte Orca'

6 / 10

There are ideas aplenty on Dirty Projectors' latest, but they fail to fully cohere

7.6 / 10

David Longstreeth and a crew of guest stars create deeply felt abstractions steeped in classic influences

Buoyant and witty, and notably shy of meandering eight-minute odysseys.

Download: I Feel Energy, Right Now, Break-Thru

With these words in the first track on Dirty Projectors' 2018 release Lamp Lit Prose, David Longstreth (the group's leader and solo constant member) shares the good news: he's feeling better now.

David Longstreth's Dirty Projectors return with a terrifically upbeat album full of hopeful lyrics and bold, brassy arrangements.

8 / 10

Dirty Projectors mastermind David Longstreth has cautioned against comparing last year's self-titled record to his latest. Yet, by his own a...

7.0 / 10

Taking a new Dirty Projectors record for a spin is always a qualified step into uncertainty. The basics will feel the same but that's about it.

8 / 10

Gorgeously eccentric and cogently mismatched, Dirty Projectors’ eighth album ‘Lamp Lit Prose’ is an achievement in glitch-pop. Decades

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7 / 10

Dave Longstreth has got a new band and a new perspective on Dirty Projectors' ninth album 'Lamp Lit Prose' - an LP with brains, angles and layers.

6 / 10

Pop music should not be this hard.

7.5 / 10

The Dirty Projectors hold nothing back in our review of 'Lamp Lit Prose' while also making an album that will likely only appeal to a niche crowd.

This polar opposite of Dave Longstreth’s previous break-up howl, this album is impossible to resist

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Dirty Projectors are back with Lamp Lit Prose, an album that feels like the purposeful antithesis of its predecessor.

Album Reviews: Dirty Projectors - Lamp Lit Prose

4.1 / 5

Dirty Projectors - Lamp Lit Prose review: Laughing in flowers of sun

Crisp and inventive production shine through a musical odyssey. Review by Owen Richards

8 / 10