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Feb 17, 2017Dirty Projectors have released their career highlight to date and already one of 2017’s best. Encore surely.
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Feb 22, 2017Dirty Projectors is back with a reshaped identity, serving up experimental/artistic indie-pop while retaining its penchant for eclecticism and unpredictability.
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Feb 24, 2017He’s applied some of his musical tourism to Dirty Projectors to convey a batch of hyper-specific lyrics through an often-thrilling blend of electronica, prog-rock, Afro-beat, R&B, and pop.
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Feb 27, 2017Dirty Projectors may be a breakup record, and one with its fair share of petty sniping (Keep Your Name’s pointed “What I want from art is truth, what you want is fame” is fairly hard to swallow without the suggestions elsewhere that Longstreth is playing characters) but, cathartic and redemptive, it’s one worth getting to know.
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Feb 24, 2017Reduced to his own devices, our gentleman hero has crafted both the most intrinsically soulful, emotional, and heartfelt record of his career. No less, he's delivered on one of music's greatest archetypes--and with aplomb.
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Feb 24, 2017Heartbreak can be overwhelming, inspiring, and exhausting, and with Dirty Projectors, Longstreth has birthed an album that strives to not only reflect that, but to mimic it, too.
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Mar 3, 2017Fusing sonic intricacies, captivating melodies and compelling storytelling, Dirty Projectors’ eighth LP is their most honest and affecting yet.
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Mar 1, 2017Over lush, sprawling production, Longstreth meticulously crafts a starkly honest account of a fall from grace and a rise back into it that embraces growth and forgiveness.
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Feb 24, 2017Dave Longstreth conjures up something resembling a clear picture from all the record’s wildly disparate elements, and ‘Dirty Projectors’ serves to unify his most experimental moments with the door-opening impact of ‘Bitte Orca’.
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Feb 24, 2017The record works not because it feels cynical, but because beneath the obvious lyrical headlines, you can sense Longstreth’s genuine enthusiasm for the new forms he’s exploring so vigorously.
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Feb 23, 2017The broken-hearted Longstreth sounds like a changed man in many respects, but he's no less talented and visionary than he was before, and Dirty Projectors demonstrates that musically and lyrically, love and its absence have taught him a thing or two.
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Feb 23, 2017This is musical therapy at its best: smart, confident, and yes, experimental.
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Feb 22, 2017This is work of emotional and musical maturity: sad, complex and sometimes profound.
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Feb 22, 2017Dirty Projectors finds ways to be both straightforward and strange.
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Feb 21, 2017Dirty Projectors is not quite that good [Primal Scream’s Screamadelica]--few records are--but it certainly drives a stake into the ground as to what guitar bands could deliver in 2017 if they would only open their ears and minds up a little.
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Feb 21, 2017As a whole this is a moving and interesting new project, proving that the end of a relationship can lead to something new and exciting.
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Feb 21, 2017For the first time, Longstreth seems all too human, acknowledging failings and opening his inner landscape outwards.
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Feb 21, 2017Dirty Projectors [is] a disruption, but a pleasant one at that--it affords listeners the space to grapple with the loss of Dirty Projectors in their previous form, while dispensing enough nurturing, boundary-breaking tonic to ensure that the first run-out for the project's next chapter is shrouded in optimism rather than dissolution, unforeseen obstacles and all.
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Feb 17, 2017As dazzling, inventive and soulful as anything he's done. [23 Feb 2017, p.51]
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Q MagazineFeb 17, 2017It is, as always, complicated, but addictively, intriguingly so. [Apr 2017, p.111]
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UncutFeb 17, 2017If art is love, and love is art, then this hyper-stylised, characteristically idiosyncratic break-up album, in the end makes a perfect kind of sense. [Mar 2017, p.36]
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Feb 24, 2017Dirty Projectors’ ornate arrangements can’t hide the fact that these songs are as direct and unguarded as Longstreth allows himself to get.
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Feb 17, 2017As a solo project, Dirty Projectors works well. As significant of a shift as this album is from past Dirty Projectors’ records, the detailed production and arranging work shows Longstreth put all of himself into making it.
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Mar 13, 2017The main highlights are in the first half.
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Feb 21, 2017Voyeuristic as it is, Dirty Projectors truly does feel like a record he had to make, not to mention one that's well worth our attention.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 56 out of 67
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Mixed: 7 out of 67
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Negative: 4 out of 67
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