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  Dirty Projectors - Fucked For Life
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In between a massive national tour with a nine-piece band in support of The Getty Address, and relocating to Brooklyn, chief Dirty Projector Dave Longstreth has written an EP worth of new songs. Playing the "Electric Counterpoint" to the Getty Address' "Music for 18 Musicians," New Attitude is a refreshingly pared-down record: simple, beautiful and focused. It is dominated by the sound of chiming microtonal guitars, sub-bass dragon breaths, a sextet of cellos and double-basses — and most of all by Longstreth's singing, which has never been either so varied or so wonderfully weird.

Few musicians have both been called a "genius" by Phil Elverum (Mt. Eerie) and inspired Prefuse 73 to declare that he is "quitting music." Few musicians can count among their admirers both Devendra Banhart, the cosmic dancer, and Alan Pierson, conductor of the NY-based New Music collective Alarm Will Sound. Longstreth is a tireless and constant experimenter: in 2005, depending on when you saw them, Dirty Projectors might have been a nine-piece electric ensemble
with three percussionists, or a quartet with two cellos and a double bass, or a sextet with a string trio and two female singers, or an amplified power trio, or a solo guitar-and-voice act. Longstreth constantly reinvents himself — aware, as Adrian Orange writes, that "A Song is Like A Mask." And each piece of music he writes is deeply considered enough to be its own puzzle.

Accolades for last year's The Getty Address are still rolling in. The song "I Will Truck" was featured on the Wire Magazine's recent Wiretapper 14 compilation. Salon.com has featured two Getty Address songs, "Jolly Jolly Jolly Ego," and "Tour Along the Potomac. LA-based dj collective dublab.com has included a Dirty Projectors track on their vinyl comp "In The Loop 4," alongside Animal Collective and the Books.