Dirty Projectors - “Bitte Orca” - Buy It

text: James Mundy

Stressing contrast and composition, Bitte Orca barrels between percussive background vocals, distorted guitar licks, and hand claps on “Cannibal Resource” to fingerpicking, string orchestration, and sonorous female vocals on “Two Doves.” Throw in some falsetto and tempo changes and you have one aesthetically complicated but imaginatively and meticulously crafted album.

Reminds us of: The Futureheads | Animal Collective | Battles

Dirty Projectors: (Label / MySpace)

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bitte orca to your liking? You'll sweat:

3 comments thus far ...

  1. 1Ian Mon Oct 5, 2009 | 09:41 am

    amen, amen, amen

    tops for 2009? Definitively in the top 3.

  1. 2josh Mon Oct 5, 2009 | 09:57 am

    how about definitively in the top 1?

  1. 3Colin Mon Oct 5, 2009 | 10:55 am

    Top 3 agree.

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