To name a unique, experimental, and distinct release this year, is to name Bitte Orca. Even the title of the album is an indication to what is recorded under the name. Something divergent and strange yet wonderful.
A simple and unassuming male voice, string instruments, synths, and two girlish harmonies make up the musical creativity that is the creation of Dave Longstreth through Dirty Projectors. The harmonies can get quite complex, and unfortunately, we don't all have the voice to join along.
This is different, and essentially incomparable to any other music out there. Whatever it is (indie, alternative, folk, experimental, rock, acoustic, electronic, a combination of those and more?), it's good. The songs can vary from acoustic and harmonious, to experimental and harmonious. However it's done, it works and it sounds very well melded-together.
The songs do not carry one tune, but instead weave into separate melodies that are recorded as one unit. Sometimes, when other bands do this, recording what is clearly two or three songs on one track, it's annoying. But Dirty Projectors makes the entire album seem together in it's disconnecting distinctions.
Sometimes we're in that strange mood where we like to watch the rain and listen to music that we've never related to until now.
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five tracks:
1. Cannibal Resource
3. The Bride
4. Stillness Is The Move
5. Two Doves
6. Useful Chamber
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