I know you all love the hell out of The Dirty Projectors' modern R & B (and Solange Knowles-covered) "Stillness Is the Move," and quite frankly, so do I. How can a self-indulgent hipster not blow all over the inner lining of their zipper when listening to band leader Dave Longstreth's Timbaland-copping bump-n-grind production or singer Amber Coffman's dolphin-fart soprano that makes mince-meat out of the last decade of Mariah-absented radio tripe?
But, while that track did a crazy number on clubbers from indie venues to Jigga-approved hangouts, The Dirty Projectors bit we have at Number 6 is a little more refined in its song-craft rather than crazy Auto-tuning skills.
The Dirty Projectors - "Two Doves" from Bitte Orca (Domino; 2009)
While he's never been all that original, Longstreth has at least had the decency to mind-fuck the zombified irony buzz-heads that usually clamor over a bad taste and indecency toward influential art (see Black Flag cover album done from memory). But, with "Two Doves," Longstreth and the silken-throat of Angel Deradoorian actually manage to make something sincerely beautiful out of a hodgepodge of an album that - while brilliant - probably won't be as influential as it seems it will be.
Opening with a chamber orchestra and a Jackson-Browne-like acoustic guitar riff, the song brims with romantic yearning from the get go, but never devolves into fluff as Deradoorian's warm vocals and tender lyrical delivery work to disarming effect in ways that Longstreth, Coffman or even Nico (whose Chelsea Girls is all over the track) didn't.
In a pitchfork.com interview, Longstreth said, "It's crazy what you can do with a human voice, or a couple of human voices. It's so basic and it's so direct."
Thankfully, by stripping all of the cutesy indie-Damon-Dash glitz and freak-folk flourishes, he let Deradoorian do the voicing for him.
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