| All Artists: Dirty Projectors Title: Rise Above Members Wishing: 2 Total Copies: 0 Release Date: 9/11/2007 Genre: Alternative Rock Style: Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 883870041027 |
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CD ReviewsBlack flag, white heart David M. DeLeon | New York, NY United States | 10/31/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "Rise Above is Dirty Projectors front-man (and only permanent member) Dave Longstreth's attempt to, get this, rewrite Black Flag's album Damaged from memory. But this isn't a collection of covers - what he's ended up with here is a pile of ethereal, amazing music with the characteristic complex Projectors harmonies, syncopation, and turn-your-head-around compositions that bears no resemblance to Black Flag, despite the fact that they share the same lyrics. Take "Police Story", the most iconoclastic track. It's a soft, flowing, reed-heavy piece with an opening that feels somewhere out of Debussy, at yet the lyrics go, "This f*cking city, it's run by pigs, they take away the rights from all the kids." The amount of re-imagining it took to create these tracks makes the album something for the annals of pop music art-history. Interesting museum installation idea: play Rise Above on one side, Damaged on the other, and see if your head explodes." Underhead/misunderstood/beautiful David Michael Worthington | 10/14/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "Ignore the other person. This cd is beautiful, intricate, and creatively composed. I haven't heard much like it, which can be bad, but in this case, it's good. This is wildly orchestrated bliss. More people need to listen to this;it's sad that only two people have reviewed it." Soundtrack to my Life.... Christine Helmerson | Wilmington, DE USA | 06/19/2009 (5 out of 5 stars) "I'm a big fan of the dirty projectors. They put on an awesome show & their records are never lacking. I own this album, Slaves Graves & Ballads, and New Attitude. All are fantastic. This CD specifically I could play on repeat forever & it wouldn't get old.
I would agree with the 2 star review, in that yes this band is different. If you can't handle some intentional off beat non-traditional usage of vocals, guitar and drums dirty projectors is not the band for you. I would definitely not compare them to Clash or the Arctic Monkeys though." |
