Dirty Projectors

In 2007, this Brooklyn outfit released a daft orchestral-rock remake of Black Flag's Damaged
— recorded, its members boasted, without hearing the original for 15 years. A similar sense
of accidental discovery governs the band's fifth disc — jagged riffs, distortion and fragrant
folk melodies ride curveball beats that evoke TV on the Radio or doo-wop or Afro pop. Add
Dave Longstreth's and Amber Coffman's chamber-chorale-on-Red Bull vocals and... More >