Dirty Projectors
The Glad Fact

4
...according to our Clinton on 18 August 2009.

First up The Dirty Projectors. Quite unnerving. The vocals are in your Devandra Benhardt one blackberry short of a pie histrionics. The music is really nice in a shuffly late autumn Chicago kind of way. There's a bit of soul type stuff in there aswell. A really interesting record but needs a couple of listens and it all depends on whether you can cope with the.. er.. eccentric voice. But fans of Devandra Benhardt and the more off kilter side of Jeff Buckley could have their ears pricked. Oh year the sleeve is a pencil drawing of a naked fat man (penis included).

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What their label says...

Cargo now has western Vinyl exclusively for Europe, a full listing will follow over the next few weeks. The best sellers are the first 3 albums by Dirty Projectors who are on tour in Oct/Nov and about to release a new album on Rough Trade. Dirty Projectors' debut album, The Glad Fact, dwells in the sorts of emotional ambiguities and contradictions that have always tortured the sensitive ones. Each song offers a new melody that seems to have been sent from some erratic and beautiful netherworld. The music is many things at once: sophisticated and heartfelt, tender and aggressive, pleasing and miserly in its refusal to please. Longstreth's songs possess a will to surprise and deceive that constantly defies our expectation of musical -- and emotional -- resolution. The songs' brokenness is their resolution, and their most beautiful part.