Album Of The Week

It’s strange in a world where genres are so diverse that a band could so easily defy pigeonholing. I’d like to call them new folk, but that just wouldn’t do justice to their diversity, and a subgenre so broad might mean that when you come to listen to this album you’d be thrown by at least half the tracks. I’d like to say it’s experimental, but it feels far too comfortable and unchallenging. Brooklyn-based Dirty Projectors are led by Yale music composition graduate Dave Longstreth, so it’s little surprise that this album is so, well, surprising- it’s fresh and vibrant, it’s contemporary and relevant and yet bears no comparison to anything else in the charts or in the works. It’s a shame that for an album I’d like to champion, and that so effortlessly impresses all, I’m inadequate enough to be left with abstract phrases like ‘it’s like memories of your back-garden as a child, but in space’. Truly, an album that surpasses my literary coherence. I can only apologize.

18/20 AGCS’s

Alistair