Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Dirty Projectors - The Hope
Many bands claim to sound like ‘nothing else out there’ but usually they offer little more than a slight variation on staples like Razorlight / Strokes or whatever the genre du jour may be. Clearly, bands like this cannot have heard of Dirty Projectors, a Brooklyn based boy/girl quartet bursting with character, invention and sensational musicianship.
Theirs is a complex, exotic sound that draws on Afro Beat’s clipped guitar lines and tricksy rhythms and mixes it with plunging dubwise basslines and intermittent blasts of furious, white-knuckle guitarring. They deftly mixed the soulful with the cerebral; the girls’ pitch perfect R’n’B eqsue backing vocals providing the perfect counterpoint to frontman Dave Longstreths’ strangulated croon.
Songs gradually knitted themselves together out of seemingly disparate scratches of guitar and the sprawling arrangements and restless shifts in tempo and dynamics meant the hour long set was akin to getting lost in some kind of musical Alladin’s cave; thoroughly disorientating but magical and hugely rewarding at every turn.
posted by: Jim Brackpool @ 10:56 PM
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