Holy triple-tracked, clean-tone, pizzicato Stratocasters! I just found out from my unbelievably secretive, exclusive, underground sources that Dirty Projectors are almost done with their follow-up album to 2009’s much obsessed-over Bitte Orca. It’s called Triple-tracked, Clean-tone, Pizzicato Stratocasters! Just kidding. I don’t know what it’s called. But as one of those bands that people like me make you feel bad for not being into, it is now your duty to reciprocate my excitement here. How? I don’t know. Tap the space bar. Turn on Sticky Keys. Go buy me another coffee… No, wait! Not yet, dummy. Read the rest of the story first.
Anyway, by “underground sources,” I of course mean Spin, where dirtiest projector Dave Longstreth gave a recent interview stating that the new album is “pretty close to complete.” “It’s not very focused around the idea of an album per se,” he continues. “It’s just about making a lot of tunes. That sounds like we’re unfocused, but we’re trying and get the album out by next spring.” Cha-ching! Best album of 2012, FOR SURE. Er, I mean, how interesting! Obviously there are no firm details regarding the upcoming album’s release at the moment, but Longstreth goes on to drop a wealth of golden tidbits in the interview, including his suspicion that the abandoned house in upstate New York (is there even a downstate New York?) where he and his band have been recording is “seriously haunted” and some background on a few of the songs-in-progress. One is “a response to the Strokes’ ‘Is This It?‘“called “Maybe That Was It,” and another is a “song about navigation called ‘Swing Low Magellan’” that was inspired “by a GPS our manager gave me when I first moved up here. I fucking hate GPS.” You heard the man, folks. Smash your despicable GPS’s.
• Dirty Projectors: http://www.dirtyprojectors.net
• Domino: http://www.dominorecordco.us
