Swing Lo Magellan

aoty

rollingstone

The much-anticipated followup to Bitte Orca, Dirty Projectors' 2009 art-rock breakthrough, is billed as "simple and direct." But that’s a relative statement with a band this squirrelly. Sure, there are love songs, big choruses and sticky melodies. Then there are chamber-music dissonances, talking-drumbeat sputters and quotation-marked power chords. The ripe alto of Angel Deradoorian, on hiatus, is missed, although oddball harmonies still carry the […]

pitchfork

Dave Longstreth guides Dirty Projectors toward their most human and least ornate release yet. It's an album of deeply appealing simplicity that mixes subtle folk protest and gorgeous paeans to young love.

fantano

Dirty Projectors are sounding like a slighty more toned down version of their usual selves on this new album. While it's certainly not a bad LP, it's not really entertaining me on the same level their previous material has.