Pitchfork.tv - Dirty Projectors - Knotty Pine from Dark Was the Night

[loejewis]

It's easy to label something with "pretentious" if you don't understand it.

This music is a breath of fresh air.

[PorroFirst]

Fucking great song

[peteetep16]

Also can someone explain the title "BItte Orca"? Is that like an in-joke or reference?

[vanillaskynet]

i don't get how they are pretentious, you are the pretentious ones, because they make good music with real understanding and mastering of melodies, if that makes them pretentious then i'm a fan of it. if you know how far dave has come you will see he is far from that, he wouldn't care if only 10 people listened to his songs

[MundayMotion]

splendid

[11BABYLON]

abgel's gorgeous

[tracehazarrrrd]

the minute that bitch started singing: OH GOD! KILL ME NOW!!!!!!

[raceyboy]

raise your musical expectations. Dirty Projectors are really good. But pitchfork is the musical gestapo and have no finger on the vein of what is coming.

[kecunk]

angel's hair is ridiculous.

[trevordeclercq]

it's a hat.

[HawthorneLane14]

i wish i was in a band like this. everyone there seems to just have such a love of music.

[CyborgDeer]

i found the dirty projectors kind of pretentious before but i really like them now. this song is great and their new album, "bitte orca" is awesome

[peteetep16]

They're suuuper pretentious,

But I also can't deny they're pretty good.

[CyborgDeer]

yeah haha

[endlessautodidact4]

You guys have no idea what pretentious is.

[vanillaskynet]

@peteetep16 in what way? stop being part of the crowd, you are the pretentious one, if you have meet them or listen to their music and see how far dave has come you will think different

[peteetep16]

@vanillaskynet

Perhaps I have pretension confused with over-artiness? They're great passionate musicians, but they can seem a little too affected for me and it's off-putting. Not that the music isn't great though, I played this for all my friends, a couple coworkers, my mom, my brother, girlfriend...

[vanillaskynet]

@peteetep16 whats wrong with making passionate music and being very passionate about it. Now a days making music have turned into just making a mediocre beat and singing just to please the whole crowd. the point of doing something you love is to be very passionate about it, if not whats the point you see

that's what i think makes them good

[tomMIKOS]

"Doing it in a loft"

I love you Dirty Projectors, but shit, a loft?

[shufflebrainn]

coooool. i love these guys lotzzzz

[RedHeadExitting]

i am psyched for pitchfork this year. I am trying to go 2 days!

[dillice]

dirty projectors have so much potential... such a shame i can't find anything that isn't played live...

wierdist most harmonic music i've heard in my life...

"beautiful", can quite describe it

[RedHeadExitting]

there a recording of "two doves" if you just search the song.

[Dereck89]

check out their myspace site, and scroll down and you will see a video on the left side called time birth spilled blood. If you haven't seen this video, you should watch it, it's one of the coolest I've seen :)

[nixli1980]

bitte orca baby!

[emerica171]

hipster overload

[redhandrail]

bleh.....

[Budhisatta]

This is quite special.

[boonedl12]

Fantastic. Best compilation album ever.

[sodaverde]

i completely agree

[TheSasha555]

God I love emo.

It's so fucking artsy.

[vanillaskynet]

@TheSasha555 there's nothing emo about this dumb shit 

[timothyzha]

awesome. chords are d c sharp min bmin and a if anyone is interested.

[8pint]

Absolutely brilliant rendition - thanks for the video