Dirty Projectors have come to define the forward-thinking movement that is the Brooklyn music scene, and, in a way, they have done much to preserve the scene’s organic integrity while trends in noise and art-rock sweep through. It’s the mantle quite a few bands have worn for a moment—TV on the Radio, Grizzly Bear—but few have run with it as far as David Longstreth’s Dirty Projectors have and hopefully will further on into the future. Dirty Projectors have taken an opening slot on TVOTR’s tour this spring—a fact that is made almost ironic by the likelihood that they will, with Bitte Orca, usurp even more of TVOTR’s power in the New York and national indie scenes. Of course, this is just speculation, and possibly even an exaggeration on my part, but DP’s newest effort will have even the non-avant-garde speaking in superlatives. I heard snippets of Bitte Orca months before having the full record in hand—“Stillness Is the Move” at SXSW and a leaked “Temecula Sunrise”—so the build-up was pretty substantial. By the time it came into my inbox, I was fairly desperate to hear Bitte Orca. To my giddy glee, it was a... Read more at crawdaddy.wolfgangsvault.com