Reviews (page 9 of 9)
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.
I really liked this album. I discovered this band relatively recently and liked their album with Bjork. I think the way the use the male and female voices is interesting
nja...
Creative, out there indie melodies, otherwise meh
Indie with a capital I. Not my thing.
A lovely album. I can't put my finger on what is so unique about them, but they just seem to have a way of composing and writing that is unexpected, unusual, and appealing to me.
shit
Very chill and soothing. Not an every day listen.
n/a
didn’t really need to be on this list but cool. liked it more when listened twice.
What a disaster. No songs, just a guy pretending to have talent.
thought it was pretty cool
REALLY COOL MAN
The vocals, a little trying to me. Maybe too clever by half.
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.
I respect the experimental-ness, but it doesn't always work for me. The guys voice is not my cup of tea, the female led vocals are better for me, like on Stillness is The Move which is not bad. But it is definitely indie-pop, which in the end I still don't usually like a lot.
eh
Whiny falsetto and asynchronous rhythm are not welcome, Orca. Stillness is the move is okay.
Very into this. Cool indie vibe with catchy melodies and pretty vocals.
I enjoyed this but didn't love it. I think if I was seeing them live I really like them but nothing really drew me back to the album. As discussed I think they are a time sensitive band and listening to them now they just sound like many others bands but looking at the year this album came out it must have been a pretty fresh sound.
On second listen I did like this album more - I think I would have loved it had I discovered it during my indie phase of high school
Pretty good. A little odd at times but enjoyable.
1.5
Me
Alright I guess
Another great album from an indie rock band I didn't know. Keep them coming!!
This sounds like the kind of horrible jangly trash that dicks who work in record stores like to recommend just because it's obscure. Some music deserves obscurity.
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.
Gillade det här ganska mycket. Jag kan verkligen uppskatta flippiga rytmer och taktarter men då tycker jag att hela bandet får spela samma flippiga rytmer och taktarter. Blir lite för otajt ibland tycker jag. Åtminstone för mina sköra små lekmansöron.
Very enjoyable and inventive.
Pretty tripped out actually and I ended up listening to a handful of the songs more than once
Excellent album by Dirty Projectors. Some people say the vocals are like soap, but I love this dude, and the abstract sounds they're putting out.
Wtf was this shit?
3
2009 indie
Interesting
This album caught me on a good day. I was in the mood for something like this. But, as I type this, I realize the album was largely forgettable.
Indie-rock, moderne, opløftende, eksperimenterende, varieret vokal
A great deal of this record is a guy singing in falsetto while two female voices do a weird "vocal hocketing" thing that I learned about today. Dirty Projectors is one of those art pop bands that think switching obscure time signatures in the middle of a song makes them worthy. Technical acumen is nice, but they occassionally forget to make the music listenable at the same time. Best track: Two Doves
Too fiddly for me
This is more of a 3.5 than a 3. Some really beautiful moments here, but sometimes a little too chaotic for my taste. Still, I'm surprised by how much I enjoyed it considering the fact that I got a free song from this album back in 2010/2011 and I didn't like it back then. We love to see the evolution of music taste! Growth!!
stop sprawling and start editing people
Longstreth's voice sounds a bit strained on the first few cuts, but the compositions are intricate and the backing harmonies are delightful in stereo. Temecula Sunrise underlines the suburban angst with interjected "yeah"s. There's a prog-folk feel to first three songs, and they start in roughly the same way: minimal instrumentation and male vocals opening into movements and soundscapes. Stillness Is The Move is the proof that this is not the formula. It establishes that fact with its vamp. The sequencing continues to flow thanks to the string section linkage, until No Intention breaks the flow with a hint of a different kind of project altogether. The album ends with Longstreth in a halfway point between his early, more forced vocals and the more comfortable timbre of the couple preceding tracks. This time, he enters after an organ, and the song and album come to a close as the ideas on it come to fruition. I didn't expect something this accessible when I saw Trout Mask Replica comparisons, but this project earns it when its title is realized in lyrics.
2009. Key Songs: Stillness Is The Move, Useful Chamber
Very cool freak folk record
A bit plinky plonky in places but it had some good tracks
3.5/5. It was different, but good. I liked the sounds on it. I need to listen again.
Offbeat elitist hipster-pop doesn't get much more up its own arse than this.
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Rätt stökiga, ostrukturerade melodier och många olika typer av sound genom hela albumet. På ett bra sätt! Dock lite för modernt och fräscht för min smak!