Bitte Orca

Some interesting moments and quite musically diverse but reminded me of the worst excesses of mid 2000s "art pop" – mostly self indulgent and unlistenable. What's wrong with a melody?

No.

I wanted to like it but ultimately found the record quite boring. I was surprised to see they were American. I was guessing Finnish or Norwegian.

This is a pretty eclectic sounding album. Sophisticated pop music for the new millenia. hear a little Vampire Weekend at times also some TV on the Radio. And definitely a Beach Boys thread running through their songs. I enjoyed some songs but many son gs did not hold my attention; 2.5 stars

Beetje vage pingelmuziek. Ik kan er niet van genieten, maar het irriteert me ook niet zo heel erg.

5/10

Kannte ich nicht - nicht schlecht - aber werde ich nicht wieder hören

I think these songs will take more time to enjoy. Kind of a strange album.

This era of indie-rock/pop just annoys me.

Have never heard of this group before. As I listened to the album the first time I felt like I might be hearing something very modern what with its odd song structures and airy backing vocals. Is this some post-modern new wave or something? I kept thinking that maybe this is a little too modern for me? I did not feel comfortable listening to this album. There was something persistently alien that prevented me from enjoying this. I started listening a second time but abandoned that attempt after I started feeling annoyed. BITTE ORCA is some new kind of music to me, but I don’t see myself wanting to hear any more of this. There is real talent on display but ultimately I feel unable to relate to this… even though I kind of wish I did.

meh

Wel lekker apart, maar de gebruikte geluiden en stemmen spreken me niet aan

This was pretty good. I wasn’t a fan of some of the vocals but the rest was inoffensive

Sometimes good, mostly bad

Definitely missed this whole 2010s indie scene and can't say I regret it. Just can't wrap my head around why anyone would submit to this torture. The music is a grab bang of half finished guitar parts and weird synths, the lyrics are inane and the lead singer has one of the most annoying voices I've heard so far on this list, which is saying something. The only bright spot is when one of the women is singing and that only happens on the one single.

2/5 naaaaah

This is why i don't bother going to see the bands when i'm at ATP

A bit too experimental for my taste

Voor mij weinig boeiende zeroes rock

2.3 Welcome to Te Boelaerpark festival, hier hebben we bakfiets atracties en gratis gemberbier! GTFO absoluut geen plaat da ge MOET gehoord hebben

Vocal harmonies were interesting, but otherwise somewhat unremarkable

This album felt disjointed and none of the songs really engaged me. Not a fan.

A little boring, but an ok record

no

Está ok, prefiro o de 2017.

experimentell und teilweise sehr nervige Sounds...

meh

Нормис не заценил. На грани с неслушабельным. Какофония, которая мало того, что слух режет, да к тому же эстетикой приятной не обладает. Бездушный звук, будто нейросетью состряпанный. Тогда, когда это похоже на адекватную музыку, вроде бы радуешься, но понимаешь, что до хорошей музыки всё же не дотягивает. В качестве неплохого ухо выцепило трек Useful Chamber. Который намекает, что существует вероятность въехать и во всё остальное, хоть она и КРАЙНЕ МАЛА. Посему совсем на дно альбом опускать не стану.

Ponderei em dar 1 a este álbum. Indie Rock, pop consegue ser muito desintressante. O minimalismo é giro quando apresenta-se num formato minimalista, intimista ou algo mais obscuro. O som destes senhores enquadra-se mais numa sonoridade expansiva num contexto que é minimalista. Simplificando, estes cachopos têm um som muito aberto e relusente para a pouca quantidade de notas e instrumentação que metem, falta sumo. Grande parte da instrumentação existente passa por palmas em algumas faixas e um coro para cobrir a falta de tudo. O cantar é nauseabundo, é chato, em que não acrescenta nada. As vozes femeninas costumam fazer backing vocals com algumas aparições em papel principal pelo meio. Tendo que a instrumentação é minima temos de compensar com vozes magistrais, como as da Amy Winehouse, Adele, Freddie Mercury e outros mais... Contudo, estes senhores estão mais para cantores de bar com pouco talento, o Dave Mustaine parece cantar baladas melhor dos que eles, isto é uma afirmação grave. Novamente, é talvez uma brutalidade, eles fazem sons com as vozes, de passarinhos, de coros de outras coisas para compensar vazios de instrumentos, mas é tudo tão pouco e fraco. Nada aqui faz crer ficar, faz crer desligar e mudar de rumo. Mas voltando ao inicio, porque não dou 1? Eles nas guitarras minimalistas por vezes têm acordes e ideias interessantes, contundo sabendo sempre a pouco. Um bocado de História, estes senhores são americanos, são comparados há tantos músicos porque flertam com rock e pop. Mas sinceramente acho a arte deles má, então não levo a bem alguns comentários deles, como dizer "I Fucking Hate Frank Zappa", sendo que estes homens nem uma fração têm do talento que o Zappa tinha. Eles estão no ativo a muitos anos, desde 2002, mas eu só gostava de saber quem perde tempo a ouvir estes sons vazios e desconexos. Dou por mim a querer desistir disto. A melhor música é a Useful Chamber. Nota: 3/10 Dia: 21/06/2024

Bit weird

Too eccentric for my taste.

im not sure what that was

too clever by half for me

Some of it was ok but no idea how the hell this made it on onto any greatest album list 🤷🏼‍♂️

Not for me

An interesting mix of electronic, rock, pop, orchestral, etc. Creative structures. Experimental without being dissonant. Just not for me.

Not a fan of the overly clean indie-rock sound or the tight harmonies. The stranger/off-kilter tracks are the strongest (second half of 'Remade Horizon'). 4/10, would benefit from being less formulaic

Bad...

Haiku Tuesday: Rock Experiments || You know, most experiments... || They fail, like this one.

Wasn't that interested

I don't know what I was expecting, having only ever listened to a couple tracks from Dirty Projectors. They were huge with the hipsters while I was in college, so I guess I just never listened. A fine record, but forgettable.

"Bitte Orca" roughly translates to "Thank You, Whale from Free Willy." I wanted to like this but it's hipster bullshit. So much vocalizing/modulating in every fucking song. Weird inflection can be cool but not in every fucking song. I couldn't understand the lyrics so I looked them up... mistake. It sounds like experimental college kid music. I can't imagine listening to this for fun. Music for people who want to appear interesting. Spare me. No Intention raises it from a 1 to a 2 for me.

nja...

Creative, out there indie melodies, otherwise meh

I should like this for it's experimental tendencies but it doesn't really grab me for some reason. In fact I'm finding that it is frequently annoying me. It comes across as somewhat "lightweight" to me. Beautiful in a way but also perhaps trying a bit too hard to be so.

Whiny falsetto and asynchronous rhythm are not welcome, Orca. Stillness is the move is okay.

Me

Hmm, probably too experimental for my tastes. I suspect that if I were in the mood for it, it would rate more than 2 stars. As such, I'm not, and thusly: 2.

not for me.

2009. Key Songs: Stillness Is The Move, Useful Chamber

This is just too experimental and sonically random for my taste. There are flecks of interesting songs in here, but buried for me in a lot of needless chaos and unstructured rambling. No stand out tracks. Rating: 1

Like a good hipster Xennial, I liked this when it came out. Today i found it mostly unlistenable. “Stillness is the Move” is still a bop though.

Atrocious vocals, it felt like the guitars and drums were not playing in time of each other on most tracks I’d be annoyed if I went to see some crappy band playing at my local pub on a Sunday night for free played this bad, no clue how this is on this list 1

Täyttä paskaa, oli tuskaa kuunnella. Ei-kiva paluu päivittäisten albumien kuunteluun

Aivan kamalaa musiikkia 1/5

I've seen a Temecula Sunrise before. It's beautiful. I will not be listening to this band should I ever find myself there again.

My gf asked what my album of the day was today and I described it to her as "awful 2000's hipster crap".

I've heard about this album for years and it sounds like THIS? I guess in 2010-2015 I would have been all over it but this is like all the stuff that annoys me about genres I like rolled into one album.

I like music where the musicians play the same song

Am I burned out from listening to five albums a week? Am I growing bitter with age? I respect the sparse instrumentation and enjoy the way the vocals intertwine. However, the songs themselves leave much to be desired. There is something about quirky, millennial music that doesn’t sit right with my soul

Plinky slinky rinky dinky...these words rise in my mind, almost mystically. The four most talented (and most insufferable) kids in your high school choir started a band together, and they're singing a cappella—a song you don't know and may never know—each with a hand over one ear (ie that guy from Parks & Rec). In fact, my high-school gf might love this (no disrespect intended). Impressive? Occasionally annoying? Thesaurus lyrics? Not much to cling to? Again, no disrespect intended. I know this band from before...2017...I wore out their song "Up in Hudson"...I'm listening to that one now, and you should too.

Completely non-cohesive and muddled, like they were attempting 5 different genres, time signatures and emotions in every song. Just made me angry listening to it.

Este tipo de rock experimental ya me di cuenta que no es para mi, me han tocado varios grupos y realmente no les encuentro el gusto...

Drivel, annoying at best, fucking awful at worst. I can't see a redeeming quality of this album. You can't argue that it's been influential so deserves its spot either, thus has stood out above everything to be the bottom of the list.

Just didn’t get it.

Not for me

This album could be fine if someone told the man singing in a falsetto to stop. Clearly everyone in this band thinks they are so amazing they have lost the ability to be objective about their work, because anyone who has ears should have known The Bride was garbage and should have been recorded over. Experiment, be weird that is fine, it often pushes music forward, but not every single "experimental" thing made needs to shared, sometimes it's garbage and it is ok to admit it is not good. This album severly suffers from a lack of anyone knowing how to edit the work, some of the songs are good and others make you question your decision to listen to anything on this list.

Remember kids, don't let a pesky detail like "I don't know how to write songs" stop you from writing songs.

Dette var en kjip opplevelse å tvinge seg igjennom

Irriterende artpop. Finner ingenting jeg liker ved dette.

Hurt my ears Best Song: N/A Rating: 1.0/10 Stars: 1

Day876 - 2009 was objectively the worst year for music and this only backs my claim

Disappointing, dreary and derivative, one star. Superior to Petty, The Police, RHCP etc but not by that much. Tom.

Bitte Orca was a genuinely agonizing listen but it didn't have to be this way. The instrumentation for the most part was not the worst and would have made for a decent album if not for the fact that they are paired with some of the most annoying and self-indulgent compositions ever. The sounds just come and go without any rhyme or reason and the vocals suffer from that exact same issue as well. All of this combined just leads to an album that ends up feeling directionless and annoying and trust me, those are not things you want your album to be (unless you're a troll or a sadist, i don't know). All of this leads to an album that tries to do a lot but can't do any of it competently. Best Song: Two Doves Worst Song: Useful Chamber

Wretched. It’s like the lead singer has his nuts being grabbed by the girl back up singers with one hand while they throat chop each other with the other to create this symphony of discord.

My least favorite type of music from the late 2000’s.

A deeply irritating collection of overthought art-pop that sounds like exceptionally talented people competing to avoid writing a normal song.

Annoying. This is just an irritating album. It's trying waaaaayy too hard to be clever & quirky, without ever offering anything that interesting. The songwriting and flow of the record makes no sense at all, but you can absolutely imagine the band saying you're just not quirky enough to “get it”. I think I do get it, it's shit. It gets a point for Stillness Is The Move being a semi-decent song. 3/10.

sucks ass

It's just so meh. Pointless album from a pointless band (in 1001 terms)

now this is just annoying

I should have died before hearing this album... fuck Sorry, I thought I should be 100% honest :-(

Lets record the sounds of a broken washing machine and call it music. Where are some of these dopey LPs' coming from??? This is really something we absolutely had hear on a list of 1001?

the hell

Super random, no entiendo la vibra, no le suena armónico

Ņeh. Mūzikā ir kripata kaut kā interesanta, bet vokāli ir atbaidoši. Fui pē.

536 albums in, and I was looking forward to something I had no idea about, but I was not prepared for this. It feels like the musical equivalent of Donald Trump speaking; it just has no structure, coherence or rhythm, is mostly offensive to the ear and you just want it to end as quickly as possible. I think this might be the worst album (or at least in the Top 3) we’ve had so far, and it’s had some proper competition.

It felt like a droning 41 minutes of the worst indie rock cliches ever. Most bearable of the bunch: "No Intention" I don't anticipate revisiting this album in the future.

Really had to force myself

Kept having to pause to make sure I wasn't accidentally playing audio in another tab as well

Reminder that I hate experimental music If I had a couple good things to say about this album, it’s the fact that it’s over quick and every once in a while there’ll be a cool 30 second stretch where it sounds decent enough I really really wish the dude didn’t sing with that falsetto the whole album (the woman’s got a much better voice, listenable at least). The inability for them to stay on rhythm infuriates me so much, I’m sure they’re talented enough but it sounds awful. Most of the base lines/drums sounded like they were generated by AI where none of the notes make any sense. Vocals are definitely the bigger problem though Probably a bit closer to a 1.5. I’m feeling spiteful today and I thoroughly disliked this one

Weird discordant sounds with really odd lyrics. It doesn't go together, and I think that was probably the point. But, I don't get it. This has the feel of a group that is targeted towards musicians that more casual listeners like me just don't get. Frankly it was really pretentious.

i tried. i really fucking tried. but this is too myspace indie core for me. you know the type,, 2010s hipsters with thrift store cardigans and fixed gear bikes. The vocalist and the backing vocals are straight bad. like, lord, they must be nepobabies because there's no way a label listened to this and thought "yes, let's burn studio hours on this." It's the kind of album where you can feel them trying to be genius and clever, but it just lands as annoying. the harmonies don't harmonize, the rhythms jerk around like a nervous tic, and not once did i feel any emotional honesty. Just save your ears. this ain't it. This reminds me why i dislike bjork and her so called avant-garde weirdness, because of people like this, that kind of noise gets normalized. just imagine the type of pretentious people who hear this and pretend to find it good.

Experimental music.

# Album Name: Bitte Orca # Artist: Dirty Projectors # Rating: 1/5 # Comments: Absolute convoluted wank. Rubbish # Top Tunes: None # Would I listen to it again? No

Horrible noise.

Pompous and uninspired, didn't get anything from this. 1

Very puzzled by this album. Puzzled how this was made, puzzled why this was made, puzzled with what it's doing on this list. There's a noticeable lack of even basic music rhythmic structure that gives everything a slapdash and unprofessional feel that is very grating and unappealing. Even the decent parts feel almost accidental, as if there's a deep misunderstanding of basic musical ideas

Holy god that was a rough listen. I get that it's art and pushing the boundaries, but that was like those videos where they try to imitate what it's like to have a panic attack and be overstimulated at the same time. This is what I imagine a bad mushroom trip sounds like. I can't put a timestamp on any good or enjoyable moment in this album. Pretty sure I made some GarageBand music better than this when I was 8. 1/10

I think there was one track that I felt caught my attention but even at that the song felt scattered which is a word that sums up the album as a whole. Clearly that’s what they intended but it just doesn’t do it for me.

As someone who likes experimental and weird music this was excruciatingly painful to listen to. It's offbeat, but instead of creating a nice sound landscape, it just feels like I'm listening to children in a playground trying to start their own band. Favs: Actually none

the reason this is so well reviewed is because it’s so annoying

Most 2009 rock album ever. Not a good thing

Did not care for this at all. Mostly discordant to my ears. Some was listenable, but not much.

Опять рок? Сколько можно. Чё это за хор? Понимаю что это задумка что б было многое в разнобой, как ляпание и смешивание цветов, но я пока не как на это реагировать. Что с вокалом? Просто кревляние. А что с инструментами? Они как будто расстроены. Какой-то непонятный инди-хипстерский поп рок, много импровизации. Я понимаю задумку авторов, но простите я этот кал дальше слушать не намерена

Insufferably twee. The most "American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2002" album imaginable. Like Arcade Fire if they had no song-writing talent. You don't even need to listen to this album to hate it; just read the frontman's quotes on the Wikipedia page.

I don't get it.

Literally no more indie-anything. I’m over it!!

Nope

This just makes me tired it's trying so hard to be important.

If I had found this in 2009 and had been smoking at that point, I might've liked this. There's bits I kinda dig, but don't like it overall.

I really disliked this

Unlistenable, talentless garbage.

Annoying, weird, messy and pretentious

It's not bad, but man oh man, I couldn't wait for this to be over.

I’m sure this kind of discordant sound is interesting in theory but it’s horrendously tiresome

Removed Album #20 (List: https://pastebin.com/cSThNiK9) Cool, another ex-album. I'm not sure what to expect from this cover. Indie Pop seems like my best bet, so I think I'll roll with that. I was not prepared for a male vocalist, especially one with this intonation. This is, tragically, a weak link. The sub-3 albums on this list have yielded some of my favourites, but this is just bad. Different for the sake of being different, every song blends a million different influences together to create its own disgusting, nonspecific genre. Very, very little of this album works as a result. The guitar sections on "The Bride" are a brief reprieve from the rest of the song. "Stillness is the Move" is shockingly bad. A shitty, nightmarish instrumental paired with shitty, nightmarish vocals. "Two Doves" has some decent vocals, though the mixing is complete shite. The deafening acoustic guitars and string sections prevent the song from offering any reprieve. The instrumental doesn't fit the vocals in general, really. I like the dreamier aspects of "Useful Chamber", though that instrumental is, once again, far too busy. The track is way longer than it needed to be, too. Why was this album removed? To the book entry I go. Where the band found their footing. Many influences. A whole lotta wank about Dave Longstreth and his fancy Yale degree. Wikipedia reveals that this album is about "colours and their interaction" (what wank LMAO). It had modest success on the charts and was well received by critics. Yeah, no. Fuck this album. While I am generally favourable to the "outsider" picks on this list, my fundamental problem with this album is that it isn't interesting. The music is discordant and jarring without having anything that hints at a genuine craft or creative passion. In place of this album, I humbly submit Happy Bivouac by The Pillows for inclusion on the list.

Can’t believe this in one of the 1001?

1.0 Was it different? Sure. Was it good? fuck no.

Det er verdt å gjøre seg kriminell for å fjerne denne fra verden

Sound like one long song if people messing around in the studio - meh

Bad

• war nicht so mein vibe

I knew this was going to be insufferable from the very first "lyrics" on track 1. You could not make a more "hipster" album if you tried.

Mist! Mist! Mist!

The very definition of annoying and obnoxious in sound format. Worst song I've ever listened is The Bride. Just wow. 1/5

I guess this is art?

I don't really like it.

This was bad.

Not my cup of tea. I won't yuck someone else's yum, but I don't go for lots of tempo & melody changes, falsetto, and generally this millennial indie vibe. It sounds pretentious to me.

Someone please explain it to me because I didn't get it at all...

Such a study in "how do we sound as annoying as possible and take the tune in a direction constantly that will make this as annoying as possible".

Ei ollut meikämarjatan musaa yhtään. Kuuntelin kuitenkin levyn läpi.

Meh.

Every song passes, but not a single one "sticks" or gets to me...

It's too much waily woop crap

Painfully bad.

No private session used for spotify. Hated it, too electronic, too many random noises, too much whining in the background, too many tempo changes and all around annoying. Math and music have a lot in common, so here is a mathematical term to describe the album: disjoint.

Trying too hard to be original, it ends up being both bland and undigestible. 2/10

Felt like the music version of "modern art"

Not for me. 1/5

Would rather listen to Neil Young and I won't listen to Neil Young.

Hm. This might be a long 41 minutes. Maybe a 2 for the first song with a lot of goodwill. My guess is it’s going to be a 1. Yep. A 1. Hate it

ugh what have you done to my ears?

I was listening to a podcast episode a couple weeks ago that began with a story about the host's experience at a performance by Bjork and Bitte Orca at Housing Works Bookstore in New York. (The story was hilarious, highly recommend. 60 Songs That Explain the 90's: The 2000's, episode "A-Punk" - Vampire Weekend.) I thought if Bjork loves them, I will too! Wrong. If I feel like crawling out of my skin for every single song, it's 1 star. I can't be bothered to justify any further. I never want to hear this again.

I’m all for creativity, new sounds, and experimenting… But this was just bad Maybe I don’t get it? To be fair, I haven’t listened to alternative music much, but the majority of this album sounds like it was produced by a kid who downloaded GarageBand for the first time and started mashing instruments together I want to give credit to the clear stand out track, Two Doves, which featured strong vocals and a nice change of pace from the rest of the album Now I never want to be too harsh on an song and/or album because art is very subjective (my comment about the production is my dumb attempt at humor so please don’t take it seriously) and what someone may think is bad, someone else might think is awesome, but I just didn’t have a good time listening through Bitte Orca If you listened to this and enjoyed it, that’s awesome Like I said, maybe I just don’t understand it That’s why I’m doing this in the first place; to branch out and grow my taste Favorites: None Honorable Mentions: Two Doves

This is just not for me. Something about it just makes me angry and I don’t know why

"Experimental rock" is apparently code for a bunch of aimless noodling and mismatched, dysrhythmic parts shoved together. I really try to look for some musical value in everything I listen to, but I couldn't find any here. This is just disjointed noise.

Utter nonsense

I could have made it through life without having heard this and been perfectly happy.

Well, there went my plan to listen to every album in its entirety before passing judgment. I could barely make it through 15 seconds of each track on this one.

Weird new gen hippie crap. Not impressed

Shite

Well, that was painful to listen to! It reminds me of when I lived in the Philippines and we used to go to this kind of outdoor food and beer court, served by several small bars/stalls. Each one would be playing a different kind of music at max volume, and some would have people singing karaoke. The discordance of the various competing sounds used to give me a worse headache than the bad beer I was drinking. The experience of this album had much the same effect.

I only clicked with one song, I feel disappointed

Not my thing

What in the hell even is that

Awful woodland sprite music.

Boring

Utter garbage.

Just a mess Fave Song: Two Doves

This album gave me the ick.

Horrible

Slop pop.

The glad fact is way better

Not feeling it. Kind of folksy, kind of synthy, a little too all over the place.

WTF? Make it go away. Hate is a strong word, but it fits here.

Bletch. This hipster garbage sucks. Eeech.

Interesting percussion and time signatures aside, this appears neither accessible nor interestingly avant guard.

Absolute nightmare. I couldn’t tell if they were truly terrible or if they meant to sound like that on purpose. Offbeat and dissonant over the top!

Who is giving out 5’s here? Please stop! For god’s sake, let’s get this rating below 2 where it belongs!

They say good art should make you feel something. If that’s true this is a masterpiece, I hate this album with every fibre of my being. It is so inoffensive and benign that it is possibly the worst body of work I’ve encountered. I hate the fact that I had to listen to this middle of the road, pseudo indie bollocks for 45 minutes. Regardless of genre and content, I can usually find something I like in any of these albums, this is the first that has given me absolutely nothing to cling on to. I don’t know how it ended up on this list and I hope I never encounter anything from them ever again.

There’s some interesting ideas but none of it meshes well at any point and couldn’t wait for it to end.

Like another reviewer, my usual objectivity failed me utterly, here. I (possibly inexplicably) hated it, and couldn't wait for it to end. I couldn't enjoy a single guitar twiddle or interesting harmony, because everything managed to combine to make something completely infuriating. I'm reasonably open, but my brain was quite certain in diagnosing that notes and sounds should NOT go in this order. I hope I never hear it again.

1/5 Huh huh! Olipa kova työ kuunnella läpi. Omat aivot meinas oksentaa ekat kolme biisiä, kun kaikki oli ihan sattumanvaraista. Sitten tuli pari biisiä, joissa sentään joku perinteisempi rakenne. Ei silti riitä nostamaan kahden tähden limpuksi.

Kappaleet ovat jotenkin sekasortoisia. Kuin kaikki olisi koko ajan liikkeessä ja bändi hitusen epätahdissa. Kukaan jäsenistä ei oikein tiedä mitä tapahtuu. Enkä minäkään.

Välillä ihan kivaa akustisen kanssa näppäilyä mutta muuten ei kyllä lähde sitten millään.

Nyt oli niin surkeaa settiä että en sano mittään.

shit from a butt

I'm starting to think this list is literally just rage bait.

not my type of rock, this is indie swill

1 stern

This is really bad. It seems to have all of the trappings of awful corporate 00's era art-pop in the most grating way. The only way this would be worse is if it included stomp-clap-hey-ho vocals, which I am honestly expecting as I listen more.

As many people as possible should buy this album so that the "musicians" can afford music lessons.

I can picture the type of person to enjoy this and it fills me with such a visceral, irrational hatred. Seething. I have issues. You can listen to this album by looking at the cover and the genre list. Just look at it. That's what it sounds like, and it's as bad as it sounds.

Awful.

фу бля

Nonsense

Temecula Sunrise feels like im on a bumpy road and I fall into potholes after getting some traction, I dont know how else to explain it, motion sickness set to music perhaps? Why is the Bride using the same cadence on a different key from Temecula Sunrise. ugh, this one is going to be painful, in theory I like this kind of music but somehow its pissing me off. The high note on Stillness Is The Move would move me more if it was done on a better song Two Doves is a nice break on the album Useful Chamber 5:25 Nah fuck this, I was between a 2 star or 1 but this moment gave me a headache

Yeah im not remotely into this haha. i remember hearing the name now and giving them a try at some point in college, maybe even post? Just not for me at all. No other notes

Musically accomplished, I'm sure, but without melodies and rhythm there are no real songs.

Drugs were the worst thing that ever happened to music, because it allowed nerds who took all AP classes in high school to go on to graduate from Berkeley by the skin of their teeth and then form indie bands that thought writing songs where they threw in everything plus the metaphorical sink made their music interesting and artistic and, dare I say, experimental, when in reality it just made it obnoxious and unlistenable. Unfortunately, these bands were extremely popular in the late 2000s thanks to the non-musically-inclined hipsters who listened to these bands because they thought it made them look intellectual. And so, a ton of bands who never should’ve been signed became canonized right before their 15 minutes of fame ran out, like popes made blessed before the pre-pubescent boys they slept with grew up and publicized their experiences as victims. There’s a world where Dirty Projectors are restrained. In that world, they make a pretty good late 2000s indie album. They clearly have the raw talent, so it’s possible; you can hear where the vocal melodies and riffs on Bitte Orca almost come together to make catchy twee-pop. But every time they start to get close to writing a good song, their Adderall script runs dry and we as the listener are subjected to 50 new, unrelated ideas all at once. To call this album “scatterbrained” would undersell how tangential every section on every song actually feels. If Dirty Projectors were tighter, I still wouldn’t like them, but I would’ve seen the argument in their favor; as it stands, I loathe them, and I loathe this record. It’s everything I hate about 2000s indie music. I also feel like its contemporary praise was overstated, and now, as a result, Bitte Orca and albums like it are deemed ✨essential listening✨ without considering whether it actually left any long-term impact while also simultaneously aging so poorly that it has become unlistenable now that this style of indie pop is out of vogue. I could summarize Bitte Orca with one word– forced. Dirty Projectors are trying so hard to sound complex, so they force themselves to do too much, and this record assumes that its listener is also forcing themselves to like complex music so they can validate a musical superiority complex. Without this forced element, Bitte Orca would still be a lame, overpraised, and dated 2000s indie album, but as it is, it’s now grating, unnecessary, and stinks of all the privileged woes of late 2000s hipsterdom.

2.5/10

I barely made it through this. The only reason this would get 2 stars would be to leave room on the bottom for garbage like yesterday's album.

Not great

Dirty Projectors — ребята, безусловно, с амбициями: они как будто бы решили доказать всему миру, что гармония — это не обязательное условие музыки, а чисто опциональная штука. Но вместо того, чтобы удивлять потрясающими новыми экспериментами, их творчество вызывает только гримасу удивления на лице. Каждая песня — какой-то случайный набор звуков, слепленных наспех, будто они опаздывали к дедлайну. В целом, их музыка звучит так, как если бы нейросеть попросили сгенерировать песню, и в качестве текста закинули бы туда рандомные комментарии из пабликов ВК. Хотя, нейросеть, наверное, сделала бы лучше. У ребят же получился не полёт фантазии, это полёт в турбулентности, где слушатель — не пассажир, а жертва. Практически весь альбом — это какой-то огромный, нескончаемый вокализ, который вот-вот должен плавно перейти в нормальную музыку, но нормальная музыка так и не начинается. В «Богемской Рапсодии» это хотя бы было интересно, здесь — нет.

Simply incredibly bland and bad. There is nothing worth listening here. I was glad when it ended.

This album epitomizes hipster pop, embodying its eclectic, seemingly random mix of styles. To some, it may seem like a messy art project, but to its creators, it's a masterpiece. As for me, it’s just a pile of shit, trying to be something that it’s not.

this list has hit a new low, can I ask for a score less than 1 please? utter shite

nah

Terrible. Hurt my ears

Not that good. A couple parts that sounded mildly interesting, but mostly felt contrived and weird just for the sake of being different.

I really hated this, but acknowledge it's probably a personal preference thing. I find the lead singers voice to be shrill, with an effect on my ears reminiscent of styrofoam. The backing vocalists cooing and yelping are tedious and gets under my skin. The instrumentals are proficient and technical (I'll give them that), but the meandering flow, and changing time signatures and tempo in top of my other criticisms made this album unlikeable, and virtually unlistenable. The last 30 seconds of the album were very good. But certainly a net-negative experience. 1.3/5 -> 1/5

I’m not even sure what brought me to this. Like I understand it’s this app but what really got this album a spot in a list that supposed to be the best of the best. To best sum up the lyrics on this album, write down every word in the dictionary, scramble them up in a hat or box and then draw the words out one by one to form a verse. No rhyming. No real explanation. Just piece together the words to make something. The music is pleasing. Everything else is very very weak. Choice cut: Stillness is the Move

oof ouch owie my atonal ears 2/10

I don't for the life of me understand why or how this album made it into this list. To use a term coined by the late great Ryan "Mullet to the head" Coyne, it was, in a word.. "Shite". I appreciate this was experimental rock, but some experiments are better left to the imagination. The human centipede was an experiment.. you don't need a Japanese man stitched face-first to your anus to know it's not a good idea. This album was that human centipede. Using the human centipede as a comparison, the album just consisted of blends, styles and noises that just didn't need to be thrown together. You looked at the mad scientist and asked, almost constantly, what's the actual point of this? As the lyrics were so irritatingly without meaning for pretty much every single track. Finally, and again like the human centipede.. you could not predict the lead singers movements at all.. the constant drawn out words, poor half rhymes, and the sort of excessive vocal flourishes that should be reserved for when a C list RNB singer does the American national anthem meant it was next to impossible to gauge the rhythm of the music and nod your head along to it. Instead my head was stitched to the arse of each track and just dragged mindlessly and erratically around until one of us eventually died. 1 star. Baffled this album made this list, and I'm furious I now count towards Dirty Projectors monthly Spotify listeners.. I imagine the other 46 of them feel the same.

Maybe if their projectors weren't so dirty they'd have been able to read the brief properly. It said “Make this album marketable", but due to the filthy smudges, they read it as “Take slim akram a marble table.” After acquiring an ornate and rather bougie marble table from a nefarious character on Gumtree, they spent a few weeks trying to figure out precisely who ‘Slim Akram’ was. It turned out this was Kaseem Akram, co-owner of Akram’s Markers, a Marker Pen manufacturer and almost palindrome. After this huge distraction, several failed attempts trying to claim the table on their record label's expenses, and a complete absence of ideas, they set about making a completely forgettable album.

That was terrible.

Annoying whining and cacophonies

nah, this ain't for me.

While I cant call it bad by any means this music just didn't resonate with me at all. Indie music is very hit and miss for me and this was a miss.

Honestly ear blood. Any time I wake up to see an album from the 2000s that I’ve never heard of before, my expectations are incredibly low. This managed to fall short of even those. Artsy bullshit.

Huh?

I don’t know what this was trying to be but I didn’t like it

No

Ugh, what is this crap!

Even if It’s not my type of music I try to be objective about production and such, hey maybe someone else likes it, but this is just bogus.

I hated this. Will I listen to again: 0%

Det sämsta hittills. Man vill vara så svår som möjligt. Fruktansvärt svårlyssnat.

Bad. Like Vampire Weekend but shittier.

Bitte stop this nonsense. One of the most mediocrate disc from my entire life.

Hated it.

Inventive cacophony. You can stay in the basement if you do the chores and the dishes, but if you play this music anymore do it across town.

Don’t waste my time

This album reminded me of that sopranos episode where Adriana is trying to executive produce a record for the band “Defiler” (lol) and the exasperated studio engineer guy is like “CHORUSES?!? WHERE ARE THE FUCKING CHORUSES?!?”

I always wonder what this record sounded like. I kind of liked the artwork for this record. Pretty simple but effective. Never judge an album by its cover. Because this record was complete shit. Not a single memorable song. I remember one thing though... And that's how much I hated actively listening to this record. What a expected disappointment. This list at least is consistent.

Eu gosto de indie, mas cadê a qualidade? a representatividade? a criatividade? A inovação? Que justique a presença desse álbum nessa lista. Eu sei que essa lista não é um dogma, mas nao não precisa agasalhar tmbm neh?! Tnc acho que é sobrinha de álbum jornalista por aí lamentável

Very surprised this album made the book. The vocals are just really annoying. It doesn't do anything exciting. Every song kinda just sounds the same. It's not actually one of the worst albums I've ever listened to but compared to everything else in this list it's pretty shit

Hipster art without any real artistic merit. 1/5

I've heard of this band but never heard them. I'm glad I haven't heard them before today. I never want to hear them again. I know people like stuff like this. I used to have to suffer similar bands when I'd see live shows in NYC during the 00s. Anti-Music I belive is an apt description. Zero stars is too many

Yesterday I had Skip Spence's "Oar", the unfinished studio project of a drug-addled mind. And it made a whole lot more sense to me, felt more coherent than this mess. Sounds like trying hard to be prog - sudden tempo changes, layers of textured voices, blue notes aplenty. Comes across half-baked, like they didn't actually listen to their first takes from the studio and wonder whether it sounded any good. Each song quickly reached my threshold of tolerance, so I suppose that's an achievement on its own. Congratulations, guys.

Clearly didn't click with me today. Thought it might, but no. Initially I was going to give it a 2 but the more I listened...

The weirdos doing music

I feel like I'm listening to someone demonstrate what ProTools 2009 could do. Just way too much engineering.

Nope

Just totally insufferable fart sniffer music. I am 100% positive that I can beat every single Dirty Projectors fan on the planet in arm wrestling

Reading their wiki entry I had high hopes on liking this album. Boy was I wrong. The whole thing sounds like a normal, indie / alternative band wrote some proper songs, but then gave the multitracks to someone with no idea how to use Pro Tools, who re-edited, rearranged and repitched everything completely at random. Its one saving grace is “Stillness Is The Move” which was really quite nice. Even as a fan of the experimental (I gave Einstürzende Neubauten a 3!) I found this to be a horribly painful listening experience. “Stillness Is The Move” gives it the one star.

Too experimental.

A pointless, disjointed mess of an album. Like the 2000s got together to figure out if you could make music unpleasant to listen to that still managed to not provoke any strong emotions in the listener.

I can't say I enjoyed any of this so 1 star or F for me.

could i write poetry to this? n

I hated everything about this.

Didnt like

This is a very puzzling album. At times it was melodic and pleasant…….other times it sounded like a bunch of preschoolers were given instruments and told to screech in the highest pitches possible…..all during the same song. The love of falsetto is confounding and unpleasant. And the more of these albums I must hear before I die, the more confused I get. THIS is one of them?! Because it is better than the billions of other albums that have been released? 🧐

3.44 rym indie pop.... no merda 1/5

Nah.

First listen Saved 1/9 Top track: Stillness Is The Move

Did not like this..

Very, very bad. Very bad

Ummm… what is this lol. It might just be late but I can't really see the vision here and I don't love it. This is like the pop equivalent of Schoenberg.. probably uses some novel theory or composition techniques but unfortunately sounds like poo. I would have given this a better rating, but considering the fact that listening to this means that I couldn't listen to literally anything else tonight I'm giving it a rare 1. The only song that I would consider naming as a favourite was the beginning of Useful Chamber, but then it went back to sounding bad. Maybe Fluorescent Dome as well, but that's pushing it.

Did not enjoy in the slightest

Começou um pouco interessante, daí ficou meio chato, então irritante e no final insuportável. Foi dificílimo terminar

This entire album is the band standing on their soapbox screaming “look how quirky and interesting we are!” I guess my question is, who gave them a soapbox? This was awful.

Some may enjoy this album, I did not

mostly unlistenable

Wat een bende

That's too experimental for me. I don't like the voice, I don't like the melodies and I don't like the arrangements. 1/5

Skip

The first song started off with some ripping bass lines and went down hill from there. Listened to the next 2 or 3 songs and decided this is not the album I was looking for

It's like it's close to being good, but it's just weird in the wrong ways to be good. It feels like it doesn't know what it's supposed to be or where it should go. It was mostly just unpleasant to listen to.

Absolute bob... terrible. I can fart better tunes....

I disliked this quite a lot. I found it particularly frustrating because I kept hearing slivers of things that sounded like I might like them, but it would only be fleeting.

Didn't have any expectations coming into this and I was unpleasantly surprised. Clashing, crashing drums and instrumentals, falsetto singing, arrhythmic and rhymeless lyrics. Not much idea why this an album I should listen to before I die. Maybe it's typical of the era?

GARBAGE

Did not understand this one at all

Not even a little bit…

Zu durcheinander, kaum klare Linien. Free Jazz im Alternativ Gewand.

No thank you. This album sounds like it's trying to decide whether to be good or ironically bad every few seconds. It just ends up being unpleasant and unlistenable.

So many emotions. All negative. This reminds me of an 8-year old's school project. You know the one. They just got glitter pens so everything is glitter. Lots of pretty pictures with no content. That they manage to earn money from Rhoda triple is an embarrassment.

Not my cup of tea.

I didn't think this was going to be so bad based on the opening few measures, but then the guy started singing. I couldn't stand his voice and the music didn't really flow in a way that worked for me. Not as bad as some of the "bad" albums from this list, but not something I ever want to listen to again. 1.5/5

Intolerable. I can't do it. I fuckin' hate this album and had to quit the first song in. It's Vampire Weekend, but I can't stand their vocalizations even more. I remember renting this album from the library in high school because of its hype on Pitchfork or some shit, and it didn't click then. Instead, it gave me misophonia. Still does, apparently.

Just a Bitte above horrible. While I am sure many may pretend to revere this record in the most pretentious hipster coffee shops anyone can imagine, “Stillness is the move” is interesting enough to barely get this to a 1 for me.

High minded conceptual rock just must not be my thing.

1. canibal rezource - 0 2. temecula - 0 3. the bride - 0 4. the move - 0 5. tuuo dovez- 1 6. chamber - 0 7. no intention - 0 8. horizon - 0 9. half dome - 0

It's not that I don't get it- I do get it! It just sucks! It's not doing anything new or interesting or even weird? And every now and then there's a 5-10 second moment where you think Aha! They're doing something good here! It's fun to listen to, or maybe it'll move into something exciting! And then it goes back to that smug boring slop from before. Oh well. I'm free! I'm free! I never have to listen to it again!!

Ik word er al na een paar nummers knettergek van, laat maar zitten.

Recuerdo que en aquella época, en el auge del indie rock, la búsqueda de individualidades y de la expresión del talento único llevaba a todo el círculo que rodeaba a la música, pero especialmente los bloggers, a ensalzar y levantar cualquier propuesta que fuese lo suficientemente única y propusiera una identidad apartada del mainstream y del alternative mainstream y el off-off alterna-mainstream. Los Dirty Projectors son un ejemplo claro de aquello. Tan claro que superan la inocuidad de sus contemporáneos y llegan a ser molestos. Hay tanta intención que termina aburriendo.

Ik gaf deze week een 4 voor salsa en een 4 voor disco: Ik sta momenteel wagenwijd open om me buiten m'n eigen hokje te begeven (al trek ik een harde grens bij carnaval), maar ik merk eigenlijk tijdens track 1 al dat het me te ver gaat. En dan is de vraag: Gaat dit het hele album zo door? Jazeker meneer. Gekke kunstacademie shit. Types die zichzelf te interessant voor een vierkwartsmaat vinden. Chris Martin van de Xenos met een paar vriendinnen die Harley Quinn verheerlijken. Die vriendinnen zingen op een dermate irritante manier mee, dat alles wat wel leuk is aan dit album een beetje kapot gedrukt wordt. Wij hadden op de middelbare school (en ik ga er vanuit dat dit een redelijk universeel fenomeen is) altijd wel twee van die stille meiden, beste vriendinnen, achterin de klas waarvan je weet dat er ééntje echt knettergek was (achteraf gezien waarschijnlijk door een tragische thuissituatie) en de andere ging dan ook maar een beetje in die gekte mee want anders had die geen vrienden. Een gekke leider en een volger met bewijsdrang. Als je ze dag in dag uit meemaakte wist je dat ze raar waren, maar voor de buitenwereld leken het normale, rustige types. Grijze muisjes, maar tegelijk zou je er niet gek van opkijken zijn als minimaal één van de twee wel eens had gehad gezoend (of meer) met een getrouwde man van in de 40. Opeens hadden die dan het plan om in de klas zelf een navelpiercing te gaan zetten, omdat dat de voorloper van likes opleverde: aandacht. Een enkele keer zag je ze dan een paar weken niet samen, want dan hadden ze weer eens zieke ruzie gehad waarbij de echt gekke van de twee de volger fysiek in de haren was gevlogen, maar even later waren ze dan weer een soort Siamese tweeling omdat ze zelf ook doorhadden dat ze min of meer tot elkaar veroordeeld waren. Dit is hun album. Ik vind het maar lastig aan te horen en met name door die vrouwenstemmen die in elk nummer maar wat lopen te kloten neig ik naar een 1. En dan zie ik Astrud Gilberto alweer naar me kijken: Is dit echt een 1?

This just felt like chaotic gibberish to my ears. Indy pop rock bullshit, really. Many of the songs didn't even seem to have a consistent rhythm, it all felt like very low effort creativity from the artist. Very much not for me.

Fucking unlistenable

The Dirty Projectors ruined indie music for years. The worst kind of trollish, intentional obscuritism. I have never wanted to punch a guy more than this specific guy.

cool i guess

Terrible.

Oh! This was awful! It sounded like someone asked an AI to produce an album and went on to feed it with King Crimson, Yes (lots of Yes, positive prompt = just copy entire Steve Howe passages verbatim), Radiohead, and a little bit of Destiny's Child. Then, once the dreadful noise had been assembled, rather than granting it merciful death, they released it as an album. The singing is probably the worst aspect, or is it the blatant rip-off almost directly from other (better) albums that this entire dross is sprinkled with maybe? It's hard to tell which I despised the most listening to this. It's affected garbage of the worst order and it actually made me a little sad because it was just so self-indulgent and plain pathetic. The video for the single (llama being led by two robed women) tells me everything I need to know about how pretentious the people making this music were. After enduring this, I felt the need to clean my ears out,

Nicht so meins

So some good elements here and there, but really could not get this record. I couldn’t wait to move on.

I really don’t get this This is so shitty 1.5/5 What the fuck is this shit Fuck this album

Not my jam…

Gefällt mir überhaupt nicht.

Pound shop Animal Collective. And I fucking hate Animal Collective.

This whole thing is a garbled jumble of instruments with a thick smear of falsetto nonsense on top. There's not a single coherent song on the album! Every track is fractured and disjointed as though each instrumentalist was giving a time signature and a key and then told to "just play something neat, right?" These songs are the musical equivalent of a cartoon ransom note made of our cut-and-paste magazine clippings. This didn't come anywhere near enjoyable to listen to and I was thrilled - THRILLED - when it was finally over.

sanoisin että lähin asia the beatles bändiä mitä on mahdollista olla. albumin sisältämä musiikki tuntui hyvin paljon väreistä ja niiden vuorovaikutuksesta. onneksi olen värisokea heh.... kiitos pyhä kolminaisuus että kuuntelin nyt enkä vahingossa päättänyt junamusiikiksi laittaa.. liian puhdas ääni, olisi parempi jos äänitetty vanhalla huawei puhelimella, junaraiteilla... temecula sunrise

The overriding impression left by Bitte Orca was 'irritating'. The vocals - all of them - grate. What's worse? The quavery male singing or the twee faux Space Age 'ahh ahh' female vox? At least the music...eh, no, that's a load of bloodless studio wank 'art rock' donkey shit too. By the sixth or seventh track, I just couldn't wait for the funny tempo change or unexpectedly 'quirky' modulation! I feel that I could take this band in a fight without any help.

Helt ok musik men några av de sämsta vocals jag någonsin hört, mina öron blöder.

Vill fan inte ens lyssna klart, usch. De har experimenterat i fel riktning.

Hej, kolla på mig, jag är jättebra på att göra speciella ljud med min gitarr!

Sometime during the turn of the millenium, indie morphed from being a descriptor of which music label an album was released from, to an aesthetic in its own right. Much of indie was a reaction against the sheer dearth in creativity and general thuggishness found in guitar music and its audiences (for a prime example, see Oasis, King of Britpop). Some bands eschewed typical time signatures, others typical key signatures, yet others still any hint of musicality to show that they were different. On Bitte Orca, Dirty Projectors display the twee tendencies of the movement. Most of the songs are 4/4, but Dirty Projectors noticed that by slowing the tempo down, they can give off the impression of a non-standard time signature without committing to the real deal. Similarly, by adding in noodling, they can give off the impression of pseudo-intellectualism. By yelping, they're singing could be misconstrued as interesting. Even the name doesn't mean anything, it just "sounded good". On Bitte Orca, Dirty Projectors go nowhere slowly, high on their own farts.

Lot of noise. Not good noise.

My mind kept wandering away from this album while it was playing. I think that was from a sense of preservation