“Rarely has an album so full of joy and life started in such a sombre way. “The sky has darkened, Earth turned to Hell,” Dirty Projectors’ creative force Dave Longstreth warbles on the opening song, ‘Right Now’. By the end of the song, however, he’s lifted up and is ready to turn a new page: “You pulled me up when you took my hand / There was silence in my heart and now I’m striking up the band.” F”
“For years, Dirty Projectors have been making innovative, glitchy, experimental art-pop. With their eighth studio album—produced by frontman David Longstreth—they prove they have no shortage of ideas or creative ways of executing them, though some wind up working better than others. A skittery beat, blasts of brass, and Longstreth’s heavily digi-altered voice anchor the opening of the album—an int”
“Dave Longstreth is on a madcap quest for personal and political salvation on his latest album, reviving a more hopeful, chipper kind of songwriting of his past.”
“Alice Deejay once posited ‘Who Needs Guitars Anyway?’ as the title of her one and only album. No doubt preoccupied with the giddy trance pop days of the early 2000s, she probably didn’t give the question as much thought as David Longstreth has over the last few years. Plagued by doubts as to whether Dirty Projectors had a future after the departures of long-time collaborators Angel Deradoorian an”
“Back to being a band, Dirty Projectors squanders a fair bit of potential on Lamp Lit Prose.”
“Dirty Projectors veer into self-parody on Lamp Lit Prose”
