Dirty Projectors

melophobe saw Dirty Projectors three times between March 2008 and September 2010, in Boston, Somerville and Portland.

3 concert reviews with 37 photos of the band
2 fifty-word reviews
1 video pick
3 news posts
2 song battles

Songs we posted

Two DovesSpotify Apple YouTube
Useful ChamberSpotify Apple YouTube
temecula sunriseSpotify Apple YouTube
Cannibal ResourceSpotify Apple YouTube
About to DieSpotify Apple YouTube

Every show, in order

March 30, 2008
Dirty Projectors and No Kids
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Words by Justin Lacasse, photos by Joshua Bean
19 photos
14 of Dirty Projectors
June 18, 2009
Dirty Projectors and Vieux Farka Toure
Somerville Theatre, Somerville, MA
Words and photos by Andrew Iliff
16 photos
11 of Dirty Projectors
September 28, 2010
Dirty Projectors and Dominique Young Unique
Aladdin Theater, Portland, OR
Words by Theodora Karatzas, photos by Colin McLaughlin
21 photos
12 of Dirty Projectors

Fifty-word reviews

bitte orca

Buy It

Stressing contrast and composition, Bitte Orca barrels between percussive background vocals, distorted guitar licks, and hand claps on "Cannibal Resource" to fingerpicking, string orchestration, and sonorous female vocals on "Two Doves." Throw in some falsetto and tempo changes and you have one aesthetically complicated but imaginatively and meticulously crafted album.

Reminds us of The Futureheads | Animal Collective | Battles
By James Mundy, October 5, 2009

Mount Wittenberg Orca

Buy It

A meeting of 2+ mavericks, singing about whales and motherhood...should be terrible, right? But the mindmeld works - the crunchy Dirty Projectors harmonies that spooked Bitte more potent, Björk the only singer to make Longstreth sound, if not tame, timely - in a duet that rises and swells like flooding tides.

Reminds us of Medulla | The I-Threes | Whalesong
By Andrew Iliff, August 3, 2010