Dirty Projectors (album)

Dirty Projectors
Studio album by Dirty Projectors
Released	February 21, 2017
Recorded	2016
Studio	Various Ivo Shandor (Los Angeles, California) The Norman Ave Bunker (Brooklyn, New York) The Magic Mix (Miami, Florida) Profit House 1 (New York City, New York) Sunset Sound (Los Angeles) The Nash Room (Brooklyn) The House (Hudson, New York) Brown Sugar Studios (New York City) Dberg Studios (Burbank, California) Studio City Sound (Studio City, California)
Genre	Art pop electronica alternative R&B experimental pop
Length	48:14
Label	Domino
Producer	David Longstreth Tyondai Braxton[a]
Dirty Projectors chronology
About to Die EP (2012) Dirty Projectors (2017) Lamp Lit Prose (2018)
Singles from Dirty Projectors
"Keep Your Name" Released: September 22, 2016 "Little Bubble" Released: January 5, 2017 "Up in Hudson" Released: January 18, 2017 "Cool Your Heart" Released: February 7, 2017

Dirty Projectors is the seventh studio album by American experimental rock group Dirty Projectors, which was released on Domino Records on February 21, 2017.

The album deals with themes of break-up, depression, and reconciliation, following the breakup of Longstreth and Coffman and the ensuing 4-year hiatus in the band's activities. It makes use of more DAW-inspired techniques than the previous 3 albums, similar to their 4th album glitch opera The Getty Address, this time including wholly synthesised sounds in a clear stylistic departure from earlier recordings, Longstreth having previously stated 'I don't like synthesisers'.^[1]

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.4/10[2]
Metacritic	77/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
The A.V. Club	B+[5]
Entertainment Weekly	A−[6]
The Guardian	[7]
The Independent	[8]
The Observer	[9]
Pitchfork	7.8/10[10]
Q	[11]
Rolling Stone	[12]
Uncut	9/10[13]

Dirty Projectors received positive reviews from music critics, holding a rating of 77 out of 100 on the review aggregator website Metacritic.^[3]

Samples

• "Keep Your Name" contains a sample of "Sheathed Wings" by Dan Deacon
• "Death Spiral" contains a sample of "Scene d'Amour", written by Bernard Hermann from the album Vertigo - Original Motion Picture Score

• David Longstreth – vocals (all tracks), beat (all tracks), guitar (tracks 1–3, 5, 7, 9), rhodes (tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7), synths (tracks 1, 2, 6–9), piano (track 1, 2, 4, 8), string arrangement (tracks 4, 5, 7, 9), bass (tracks 2, 5, 7), wurlitzer (tracks 2, 4), organ (tracks 6, 8), horn arrangement (track 3), arp (track 4)

• Ryan Beppel – string arrangement (track 7)
• Tyondai Braxton – modular synth (tracks 1–3, 7, 8)
• Lamar "Mars" Edwards – Hammond organ (track 9)
• David Ginyard – bass (track 3)
• Juliane Gralle – trombone (3 and 7), bass trombone (track 3), tuba (track 3)
• Clarice Jensen – cello (tracks 4, 5, 7, 9)
• Mike Daniel Johnson – drums (tracks 2, 3, 5)
• Elizabeth Lea – trombone (track 5)
• Daniel Luna – guira (track 8)
• Rob Moose – violin (tracks 4, 5, 7, 9)
• Francisco Javier Paredes – bongos (track 8)
• Mauro Refosco – percussion (tracks 1–4, 6, 8, 9), marimba (track 6)
• Dawn Richard – vocals (track 8)
• Ben Russell – violin (tracks 4, 5, 7, 9)
• Todd Simon – trumpet (tracks 3, 8), euphonium (track 3), flugelhorn (track 8)
• Nadia Sirota – viola (tracks 4, 5, 7, 9)
• Tracy Wannomae – tenor sax (track 3), alto sax (track 3), clarinet (track 3), bass clarinet (track 3), flute (track 3), baritone sax (track 8)

• Chris Athens – mastering
• Derek Bergheimer – vocal engineering (track 8)
• Mikaelin "Blue" Bluespruce – engineering (track 8)
• Tyondai Braxton – additional production (tracks 1–3, 7, 8)
• Sonny DiPerri – drum and percussion engineering (tracks 1–7), mixing (track 8), additional engineering (track 9)
• Jimmy Douglass – mixing, additional engineering (vocals) (track 4)
• David Longstreth – producer, mixing
• David Tolomei – additional mixing (tracks 1, 2, 7, 8)
• Ryan Tuttle – engineering
• Jamie Walters – string quartet engineering (tracks 4, 5, 7)