Tuesday 9 June 2009

ALBUM OF THE WEEK

DIRTY PROJECTORS - 'BITTE ORCA' 
Bitte Orca is Dirty Projectors' fifth album and follow up to critically acclaimed and Domino debut 'Rise Above'.  It is a big rock album with a lot going on - it is artful and playful and quite frankly oddball. Along with Animal Collective and Wild Beasts Dirty Projectors are proving that unconventional wonky pop is the way forward and they have won over the man him self David Byrne for their efforts.  Infact Dirty Projectors could be the Talking Heads of this generation.  Bitte Orca is a fusions of sounds from minimalist bleaps and electronics, 70s rock, strings, african disco.  The use of layered vocals gives the album a kind of 3D choral vibe.  Bitte Orca is one of the most interesting and complex (in a good way) albums that we have heard this year.