Bitte Orca
Dirty Projectors

Although I tend to admire "weird" music, this one made me groan. The schizophrenic tendencies of this album are overwrought and annoying. While both the vocals and the guitars going on during 'Temecula Sunrise' would sound good in isolation, they're jammed together in total rhythmic dissonance. 'Two Doves' sounds like a psychotic cover of Nico's 'These Days'. In acknowledgement of the obvious inspiration, the song even rips a fitting lyric from Nico's song and declares itself an untouchable "failure". Is this supposed to be some outrageously cheeky meta-irony that I can't begin to comprehend? Although none of it is bad, I'm baffled by this bunch of bizarro songs.

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