“In what is ostensibly a solo record with a few high-profile collaborations, Dave Longstreth masterfully peels away layer after layer of heartbreak across a strange, dizzying pop album.”
“Dirty Projectors' past is very much present in its awaited, solitary return”
“If the last Dirty Projectors album, 2012’s ‘Swing Lo Magellan’, represented a successful discovery of simplicity from a band that normally revel in knottiness, it’s perhaps natural that its follow-up would pursue one of rock music’s most well-worn forms: the break-up album. This being Dirty Projectors, though, things are never that straightforward. While the split addressed on ‘Dirty Projectors’ ”
