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Recommended by us on 28th October 2011
...according to our Clinton on Fri 28 Oct, 2011.
If anyone was destined to work together it was New York art house madcaps Dirty Projectors and Icelandic pop pixie Bjork, they might as well have thrown Laurie Anderson and Yoko Ono into the mix and been done with it. The album starts out in expert style with oddball, drifting vocal harmonies and bursts into a fantabulous pop song in 'On and Ever Onward' where the cut up Projectors vocals match perfectly with Bjork's distinctive croon on the catchy almost '50s-style singalong chorus. Elsewhere the music is more abstract - each track with staccato rhythms and high pitched complex harmonies. It's all very clever and we are reminded of the progressive 1970s Canterbury types as well as '70s wilful experimenters Henry Cow. On first listen I got annoyed at the constant chirruping but after a couple more listens I've started enjoying it somewhat. I must also mention the LP sleeve which is a spectacular hologram and is worth the admission price alone.
• Domino are to release ‘Mount Wittenberg Orca’, the collaborative album from Dirty Projectors and Björk, on physical formats for the first time. Previously only available digitally, ‘Mount Wittenberg Orca’ will be made available on LP and on CD.
• The CD version features an extensive full colour booklet with video stills, libretto and liner notes.
• The deluxe LP edition of’Mount Wittenberg Orca’ features 180gram heavyweight virgin vinyl pressed at 45RPM for maximum hi-fidelity resolution. The sleeve is comprised of a 12x12" three-dimensional lenticular cover of Mount Wittenberg, so realistic that you can almost smell the junipers. Inside is a gorgeous 12-page large- format full colour booklet with stills from the original YouTube films of the Mount Wittenberg environs by director Matthew Lessner (‘Stillness Is the Move’), a full-text libretto of the suite and complete liner notes. All LPs are hand-numbered and limited to 300 copies for the UK.
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