Artist: Dirty Projectors
Title: Stillness Is The Move
Label: Domino
Genre: Indie
Bitrate: 200kbit av.
Time: 00:04:02
Size: 6.07 mb
Rip Date: 2009-05-22
Str Date: 2009-06-01
01. Stillness Is The Move (Radio Edit) 4:02
Release Notes:
The first single from the forthcoming Bitte Orca is also the first
Dirty Projectors song that actually sounds like a single. I know what
you're thinking: Another blowhard straining his powers of pretension to
compare experimental rock bands to random bursts of commercial radio.
What I'll say is that Dave Longstreth, the band's guitarist, vocalist,
and primary songwriter, is a very talented musician whose creative
restlessness has made most of his albums fascinating but difficult to
listen to. Here, though, there's much-needed breathing room. His and
Amber Coffman's fractal guitar blasts are streamlined into a tidy West
African¬style blues loop; the backbeat is sturdy and midtempo (i.e.,
you can dance-- even grind [really]-- to it); and Amber and bassist
Angel Deradoorian's vocals flutter with the weird verve of a robotic
Mariah Carey (herself not convincingly human to begin with). All this
and a massive, melodic chorus! One you can sing along with!
But the biggest revelation here is the lyric. After years of
inscrutable, self-effacing narratives, Dirty Projectors recorded a love
song-- about, to my ears, the scary, mature realization that "settling
down" doesn't mean you stop growing. I mention it in part because it
moves me, and in part because it's a compact metaphor for both song and
album: a band realizing that slowing their role doesn't mean giving
up-- and might even mean making leaps they couldn't have made before.