Preview: Dirty Projectors with Wye Oak
 

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/imag.../mus_rec-1.jpg Noah Bonaparte Pais previews the Dirty Projectors show at House of Blues Aug. 4 by Noah Bonaparte Pais So much has been made of Dirty Projectors' silly concepts (Don Henley as a post-apocalyptic opera protagonist, Black Flag genetically altered from a childhood memory, Bjork adopting a pod of whales) that it's easy to gloss over the sensational albums they have spawned, each more accomplished ? and, it should be noted, less embellished ? than the last: 2005's sprawling The Getty Address, 2007's punctilious Rise Above, 2009's majestic Bitte Orca and its 2010 EP remora, Mount Wittenberg Orca. With July's Swing Lo Magellan (Domino), the Brooklyn band follows both trends to their tail-swallowing apotheoses.? [ Read more ]

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