Dirty Projectors

Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors in 2009
Background information
Origin	Brooklyn, New York
Genres	Indie rock experimental pop art rock
Years active	2002–present
Labels	Domino Dead Oceans Marriage Records Western Vinyl States Rights Records
Website	dirtyprojectors.net
Members	David Longstreth
Past members	Amber Coffman Haley Dekle Angel Deradoorian Brian McOmber Nat Baldwin Rostam Batmanglij Olga Bell Sam Bernstein Anneli Chambliss Emily Cheeger Alex Farrill Adam Forkner Will Glass Larkin Grimm Mike Johnson Spencer Kingman Ezra Koenig Charlie Looker Hank Miller James Sumner Wes Miles Susanna Waiche Jake Longstreth

Dirty Projectors is an American indie rock band fronted by David Longstreth that has released seven full-length albums. The band has gone through numerous lineup changes but has remained centered around Longstreth.

While studying at Yale, Longstreth spent part of the years 2001 and 2002 working on a number of musical ideas, together with his brother Jake. This resulted in the album, The Graceful Fallen Mango, that was released in 2002 under his own name and introduced his distinctive use of song arrangements and his combination of lo-fi and hi-fi production. The album was a project that Longstreth began as a freshman while studying at Yale University. With the help of Adam Forkner of Yume Bitsu, Longstreth recorded and released The Glad Fact on the Western Vinyl label under the name "The Dirty Projectors." In 2005, the band released The Getty Address, a concept album about musician Don Henley that features extensive orchestral and choral accompaniment. The diverse, stripped-down New Attitude EP followed in 2006 and featured inklings of the band's later vocal interplay and guitar work.

In 2007, the band released Rise Above, an album of Black Flag songs as re-imagined from memory. The album introduced the band's distinctive contrast between Longstreth's vocals and the harmonies of Amber Coffman and Susanna Waiche, who was later replaced by Angel Deradoorian. In support of the album, the band performed songs for a Take Away Show acoustic video session shot by Vincent Moon.

In April 2008, Dirty Projectors signed with Domino Records, and the label announced the release of their fifth full-length album, Bitte Orca, for June 9, 2009. That year, the band also collaborated with David Byrne on the song "Knotty Pine" for the compilation album Dark Was the Night produced by the Red Hot Organization. Byrne joined the Dirty Projectors onstage to perform this song, along with "Ambulance Man," another collaborative track not included on the compilation, at the "Dark Was the Night Live" concert at New York City's Radio City Music Hall on May 3, 2009.