Download Dirty Projectors' Ascending Melody 7", backed with "Emblem of the World," for free here. You can also purchase the limited physical 7" here.
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"Exit Twilight" is the hypnotic final track from Portland "bedroom wanderer" Ilyas Ahmed's new album, featuring haunting vocals from the inimitable Liz Harris:
mp3:
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related awesome photo, via Reverend Green's tour blog:
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elsewhere:
Stream Dirty Projectors' Bitte Orca in its entirety at NPR...
Let's try this again: Domino Records is now giving away the first single from the great new Dirty Projectors album, Bitte Orca, as a free mp3. Download it here.
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Dirty Projectors' Amber Coffman channels Beyonce/Mariah/Whitney over some hypnotic West African guitar steez on the group's rad new single, "Stillness is the Move." I sort of miss the subtle chord change from the live version, but this is still a great, great jam:
edit: video removed from youtube
The Stillness is the Move 12" single is out April 21...
We ran into our friends from Stereogum down at SXSW, and they couldn't stop raving about the new jams they'd just heard from GvsBooze alums Dirty Projectors during the Pitchfork/Windish Bash at Emo's earlier in the week. Turns out the gushing was warranted, at least based on this NPR live recording of oddly accessible and moving R&B jam/upcoming first single from Bitte Orca/current set closer