On Friday, just as the weekend was getting set to jump off, Dirty Projectors left us with their surprisingly smooth new single “Gun Has No Trigger.” And today, the band announces all the details behind the album that’ll accompany it. This one, the follow-up to 2009′s great Bitte Orca, is called Swing Lo Magellan, and it’s coming 7/10 in America and a day earlier in the rest of the world, via Domino. Leader Dave Longstreth, in a press release, calls it “an album of songs, an album of songwriting.” The band — without Angel Deradoorian, who’s on hiatus from them — spent a ton of time rehearsing the songs in an A-frame house in upstate New York, and they whittled the 12-song album down from about 40 finished demos. And you know what that means! Lots and lots of B-sides! Below, check out the album’s tracklist.
01 “Offspring Are Blank”
02 “About to Die”
03 “Gun Has No Trigger”
04 “Swing Lo Magellan”
05 “Just From Chevron”
06 “Dance For You”
07 “Maybe That Was It”
08 “Impregnable Question”
09 “See What She Seeing”
10 “The Socialites”
11 “Unto Caesar”
12 “Irresponsible Tune”
The band will also play Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Bandshell on 7/10 and Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival, which goes down 7/13-15.
[Photo by Jason Frank Rothenberg]
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Angel never really made Dirty Projectors for me. She was kind of like the Eve Torres of Team Teddy at last night’s Wrestlemania where you can’t really tell if the flippant vocals are there to help or ultimately try to steal the show and kick you in the nuts when it backfires.
I’m hoping we get some kind of Lana Del Rey story today just so you can compare her to Maria Menounos.
“Stillness is the Move” kind of ruined this band for me in that I used to like all of their music and now I’m just looking at the tracklist and trying to guess which songs will be Amber’s diva numbers.
That song made me love this band
Stillness Is The Move is that track I used to get at least 5 people into this band. That’s gotta be a good thing. (Although I still wonder at the one who said “I like this, it sounds like Mariah Carey”)
I took my boyfriend, who likes very little rock music and whose two favorite singers of all time are Aaliyah and Mariah, to see the Dp when they played an on-campus show two years ago. We had just started dating and for most of the show he was pretty “WTF is this” but he was the first one on his feet after Amber finished singing “Stillness.”
I guess that only makes sense if you know that the venue was a theater and people were generally seated during the songs.
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hey rubjon, my wife wants to know if she can borrow your eyeliner and straightening iron.
Kind of doesn’t work when dude’s already told you he’s gay.
“My boy”
~don da don~
There’s no way Rubber Johnny is a real person.
Clearly, this man has turned trolling into an artform.
I feel like the only person who loves Bitte Orca but doesn’t think Stillness In the Move is the best song on the album. Temecula Sunrise FTW!
Check out my comment on the post about “Gun Has No Trigger”!!
“Useful Chamber” was pretty much my fav song of that entire year.
I personally thought “No Intention” was the strongest track on Bitte Orca
If someone had never heard of Dirty Projectors and wanted to know what they’re all about, Temecula Sunrise is probably the song I would play for them. It has a little bit of everything they do.
Bitte Orca is going to be a tough album to follow, but they seem to have taken their time with this release. Should be good.
Yeah I have disagree about Angel. She was by far the cutest one, and if it wasn’t for her, and Amber of course, the Dirty Projectors wouldn’t be anywhere near as popular as they are now. Also Rise Above is their best album and it will be hard to top that, but I think this will be better than Bitte Orca.
Man, I couldn’t get into Rise Above at all. I mean not even slightly, and almost everyone else seems to love it. Individual taste really is a strange and unfathomable beast.
I guess that kind of makes sense. Rise above was loaded up with ridiculously catchy vocal melodies and girl group harmonies, And Bitte Orca was not. It had lots of instrumental classic rock flourishes where Rise above was mostly just melodies and noise. And I personally like noise music and girl groups way more than I like Led Zeppelin, so I guess that’s why I like it better. I also think Maria Carey is the shit and that Bon Iver is awful. So yeah. Just different taste I guess.
I’m completely the other way round on Bon and Maria which is what makes your analysis all the more potentially insightful. If anything it’s made me want to revisit Rise Above now so thanks.
I’m just glad the album comes out before I see them at Pitchfork in July. Shows are much better when you know the new songs
another 50 mins of llama yelps and squiggly squigglies..count me out
“This next song is about a a very dear squiggly squiggle that we lost this past November. In his honor, I present this solemn collection of llama yelps.”
“an album of songs, an album of songwriting” is the most accurate press release ive ever seen.
It’s refreshing to see such transparency in an artist
So, does anyone know what’s up with Angel? I know she had that “Mind Raft” EP, which was pretty legit… is she working on another project, or just taking a break?
Let’s go, Stereogum Detective Squad!
It’s not official but there is a rumor spreading she overdosed on squiggly squiggles. You can’t mix that shit with llama yelps these days…it’s a jungle out there.
Man this statement wins LOL ” You can’t mix that shit with llama yelps these days”
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.. bryan knows
dirty projectors are so laaaaammmmeeeeeee
“Irresponsible Tune” hahaha awesome, I can’t wait