Dirty Projectors – The Glad Fact

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Artist: Dirty Projectors, The
Album: The Glad Fact
Label: Western Vinyl
Year: 2003
Genre:

RIAA Radar Status: SAFE

Encoder: Max
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Codec: NMR
Avg Bit Rate: 192 kbps

Posted by: metaclam

Description / Review:
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The first two minutes of The Dirty Projectors’ The Glad Fact consists of weird keyboards and distorted drums, threatening to veer off into mundane, noisy IDM. Then, out of the harsh mechanical sound enters The Dirty Projectors’ secret weapon: Dave Longstreth’s voice. Longstreth (technically the only member of the Dirty Projectors) eschews the hushed, whispery singing that bands like the Folk Implosion have made synonymous with lo-fi folk experiments. Instead, he belts out his songs, soaring to a powerful falsetto and ornamenting his melodies with dips and slides like a jazz singer. His range and semi-operatic tendencies immediately recall Jeff Buckley, but he also incorporates the atonal screechings of hardcore and the suave inflections of Chet Baker. It’s jarring to hear such a strong and dramatic voice step out from behind the blanket of hiss, but this odd marriage of confident crooning and bedroom production is an alluring concoction.

Not only does The Glad Fact sound like it was recorded in someone’s house with minimal equipment, but it’s full of misplayed notes and out-of-tune instruments. This can often draw attention away from the music, but in The Dirty Projectors’ case it strangely buoys his songs. When a voice like Longstreth’s psychotically chants about graves and dark hallways, wrong notes only add to the music’s mystique. This shouldn’t be confused with outsider music of the Jandek variety; Longstreth appears to have some classical composition experience and his melodies are surprisingly sophisticated. My Offwhite Flag is both a beautifully melodic lament and a sound collage experiment. Longstreth’s jerky guitar-playing melds with pneumatic drums, hazy clouds of keyboards and what sounds like a sewing machine in an empty bathroom. Like Fake Blood in Crisp October is just stark guitar and vocals, a cross between Debussy and a medieval folk tune.

Jazz crooning, reverbed-out ’50s love ballads and classical music are definitely influential here, but The Dirty Projectors avoid any semblance of the derivative. Longstreth is doing his own thing and it’s hard to classify. To call The Glad Fact a lo-fi indie-rock album would demean the odd grandeur of the music. When Longstreth sings We drank a two-liter of Orange Crush on Two Brown Finches, he does so without the humor or irony you might expect from a 20 year-old; the result sounds like an ancient death incantation.

This is scary, evocative music, like an Alan Lomax field recording of a dusty, punk troubadour from the imaginary past; Kid A covered under 80 years of dust and gloom, only exchange the robots and clones for forests and abandoned farmhouses. On The Glad Fact, Dave Longstreth is making his own fucked-up version of American music.

By Ezra Koenig
http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/1012

Track Listing
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[01/15] The Glad Fact (5:12) 192 kbps 7.14 MB
[02/15] My Offwhite Flag (3:05) 192 kbps 4.24 MB
[03/15] Like Fake Blood in Crisp October (2:35) 192 kbps 3.55 MB
[04/15] Boredom Is a Product (2:15) 192 kbps 3.10 MB
[05/15] Two Brown Finches (2:09) 192 kbps 2.96 MB
[06/15] Three Brown Finches (3:02) 192 kbps 4.17 MB
[07/15] Science Hill (5:10) 192 kbps 7.10 MB
[08/15] Winter Is Here (2:41) 192 kbps 3.70 MB
[09/15] Ground Underfoot (3:22) 192 kbps 4.63 MB
[10/15] Spirit-Future Medley (2:03) 192 kbps 2.82 MB
[11/15] Naked We Made It (3:13) 192 kbps 4.42 MB
[12/15] Imaginary Love (2:48) 192 kbps 3.84 MB
[13/15] Lit from Below (2:41) 192 kbps 3.69 MB
[14/15] Highway Is a Foggy Knife (2:06) 192 kbps 2.89 MB
[15/15] The Minutes (2:27) 192 kbps 3.38 MB

Total number of files: 15
Total size of files: 61.72 MB
Total playing time: 44:49
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