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‘About to Die’, Dirty Projectors’ new EP and video
Indie | Friday 21st September 2012 | Osh
The indie-rock American band is kicking off with their latest releases including Swing Lo Magellan, the album which features ´About to Die`, and the short film Hi Custodian.
Longstreth´s band’s new four track EP comes after the release of their last album Swing Lo Magellan, and will be available digitally and on 12" vinyl on the 6th November. The video, which accompanies the EP’s main track, has images from Hi Custodian, David Longstreth’s short film, which features music from Swing Lo Magellan and was premiered two weeks ago at New York's prestigious Sunshine Cinema.
Dirty Projectors is an experimental rock indie-pop and avant-garde project created by Dave Longstreth when he was a Yale freshmen in 2003. The band got certain notoriety in 2005 with the release of the album The Getty Address, where they played with 25 musicians which has been described as a “glitch opera”. Two albums later, in 2008, they started with Domino Records. They collaborated in charity projects such as ‘Dark Was The Night’ with David Byrne and another one with Björk, with who they also partnered in the EP ‘Mount Wittenberg Orca’.
After the success achieved with the album Bitte Orca, the first album they released with Domino Records, the Brooklyn-based experimental band created high expectations. The album made the top 10 lists of Time and Pitchfork, led to the band's first late-night TV performances and has sold 86,000 copies. But the first impressions of the album announcement is that it accomplished them, as it’s seen by the critics as a work at the hight of their success and also maybe their most personal work as we can see the band’s footprint in their rhythm games, harmonic sense, its dispersion in certain moments, the unexpected Longstreth melodies and the girl’s chorus.
The “fearlessly thoughtful” band, as it’s been tagged, will be touring Japan and Europe before coming back to the States, where they will perform at New York City's Carnegie Hall in 11th January 2013.
By Laura Vila
@LaursTime
