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The Glad Fact
''The Glad Fact'' is the debut studio album by experimental rock band Dirty Projectors. Like other Dirty Projectors albums, ''The Glad Fact'' contain recurring symbols of finches and cars. Most songs are closer to the style of ''The Graceful Fallen Mango'' than the heavier bass and glitch-style songs of ''The Getty Address'' or simple ballads on ''Slaves' Graves and Ballads''. Western Vinyl issued the album as both a digipak CD and a 12" vinyl; the vinyl included an unlisted bonus track between "Ground Underfoot" and "Spirit-Future Medley". Both versions feature the image of a naked man sitting down, although the CD has the band's name on the front whereas the vinyl has it on the back. Track listing References

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Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2002. The band is the project of singer-songwriter David Longstreth, who has served as the band's sole constant member throughout numerous line-up changes. The band's current line-up consists of Longstreth, alongside Mike Daniel Johnson (drums), Maia Friedman (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Felicia Douglass (vocals, percussion, keyboards) and Kristin Slipp (vocals, keyboards). Since its formation, Dirty Projectors has released eight full-length studio albums, with the project featuring major contributions from co-lead vocalist and guitarist Amber Coffman from 2006 to 2013. Following the release of '' Rise Above'' (2007), an album of Black Flag songs as re-imagined from memory, Dirty Projectors released their break-through album, ''Bitte Orca'' in 2009. Featuring lead vocals from Longstreth, Coffman, and Angel Deradoorian, the album received widespread critical acclaim and increased the band's exp ...
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Art Rock
Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements. Art rock aspires to elevate rock from entertainment to an artistic statement, opting for a more experimental and conceptual outlook on music."Art Rock"
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Indie Rock
Indie rock is a Music subgenre, subgenre of rock music that originated in the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand from the 1970s to the 1980s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock or "Pop rock, guitar pop rock". One of the primary scenes of the movement was Dunedin, where Dunedin sound, a cultural scene based around a convergence of noise pop and jangle became popular among the city's University of Otago, large student population. Independent labels such as Flying Nun Records, Flying Nun began to promote the scene across New Zealand, inspiring key college rock bands in the United States such as Pavement (band), Pavement, Pixies (band), Pixies and R.E.M. Other notable scenes grew in Madchester, Manchester and Hamburger Schule, Hamburg, with many others thriving thereafter. In the 1980s, the use of the term "independent music, indie" (or " ...
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Western Vinyl
Western Vinyl is an independent record label founded in 1998 and based in Austin, Texas. The imprint was formed by Brian Sampson and Ryan Murphy originally to release their lo-fi indie rock projects as Win Foster and Havergal. Artists *Abram Shook *Air Waves * Aisha Burns * Alexander Turnquist *Anomoanon *Appendix Out *Ava Luna * Balmorhea *Bexar Bexar *Bonnie Prince Billy *Botany *Callers * Caroline Says *Carter Tanton *Chas. Mtn. * Christopher Tignor *Dawn Landes * Diane Coffee *Dirty Projectors *Early Day Miners * Elephant Micah *Et Ret * Gary Wilson * Glass Ghost * Goldmund *Grooms * Heather Woods Broderick *Here We Go Magic *In Tall Buildings *JBM *J. Tillman *Joseph Shabason *Julie Sokolow *Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith * Köhn *Lightning Dust *Luke Temple *Logan Farmer *Lushlife * Luxury Liners *Lymbyc Systym *Madagascar *Mint Julep *Moon Bros. *Nat Baldwin *Nightlands * Ola Podrida *Oren Ambarchi *Papa M * Peter Broderick *Peter Oren *Pierre Bastien *Rob Burger *Robert Lippok *Ro ...
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David Longstreth
David Longstreth (born December 17, 1981) is an American singer and songwriter. He is the lead singer and guitarist for the band Dirty Projectors. Biography Longstreth was born in Southbury, Connecticut. Longstreth attended Yale University and majored in music shortly before dropping out halfway through his second year. He stated that "he rarely ventured out of his dorm room. He found himself completely absorbed in making his own music, though there wasn’t really anyone to play it for." After dropping out, he moved in with his brother in Portland, Oregon and worked on his first album ''The Graceful Fallen Mango'', which he released in 2002. Shortly after completing the album, Longstreth returned to Yale to finish his degree and began making music under the ''Dirty Projectors'' title. He proceeded to record multiple records under the name during his time at Yale. In 2015, he contributed to "FourFiveSeconds", a collaborative song by Rihanna, Kanye West and Paul McCartney. That s ...
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Morning Better Last!
''Morning Better Last!'' is a compilation album released in September 2003. It brings together three tapes recorded by David Longstreth in the period 2001 to 2002. A year later they were compiled and released by States Rights Records on CD-R and as a digital download from iTunes. The album features guest appearances by Hank Miller, Liz Tung and Lucy Greene. Both "After Santa Monica Boulevard" and "Dahlonegabhama" were reused for the song "Tour Along The Potomac" on ''The Getty Address,'' while "Here Comes The Summer King" is an up-tempo version of "Three Brown Finches" on ''The Glad Fact ''The Glad Fact'' is the debut studio album by experimental rock band Dirty Projectors. Like other Dirty Projectors albums, ''The Glad Fact'' contain recurring symbols of finches and cars. Most songs are closer to the style of ''The Graceful Fall ...''. In 2006, Longstreth commented on the material, explaining that the record "is like 1/40th of a whole bunch of four track recordings I made in ...
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ...
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Pitchfork (website)
''Pitchfork'' (formerly ''Pitchfork Media'') is an American online music publication (currently owned by Condé Nast) that was launched in 1995 by writer Ryan Schreiber as an independent music blog. Schreiber started Pitchfork while working at a record store in suburban Minneapolis, and the website earned a reputation for its extensive coverage of indie rock music. It has since expanded and covers all kinds of music, including pop. Pitchfork was sold to Condé Nast in 2015, although Schreiber remained its editor-in-chief until he left the website in 2019. Initially based in Minneapolis, Pitchfork later moved to Chicago, and then Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Its offices are currently located in One World Trade Center alongside other Condé Nast publications. The site is best known for its daily output of music reviews but also regularly reviews reissues and box sets. Since 2016, it has published retrospective reviews of classics, and other albums that it had not previously review ...
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Experimental Rock
Experimental rock, also called avant-rock, is a subgenre of rock music that pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre. Artists aim to liberate and innovate, with some of the genre's distinguishing characteristics being improvisation (music), improvisational performances, avant-garde influences, odd instrumentation, opaque lyrics (or instrumentals), unorthodox structures and rhythms, and an underlying rejection of commercial aspirations. From its inception, rock music was experimental, but it was not until the late 1960s that rock artists began creating extended and complex compositions through advancements in multitrack recording. In 1967, the genre was as commercially viable as Popular music, pop music, but by 1970, most of its leading players had incapacitated themselves in some form. In Germany, the krautrock subgenre merged elements of improvisation and psychedelic rock with electronic music, ...
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The Graceful Fallen Mango
''The Graceful Fallen Mango'' is an album by Dave Longstreth. The album is a collection of tunes recorded in Longstreth's bedroom on a 4-track machine and in his brother's basement on a computer. Dave Longstreth plays everything on the album save for some back-up vocals on two tracks, which were sung by his brother Jake Jake may refer to: Name * Jake (given name), including a list of persons and fictional characters with the name * Katrin Jäke (born c. 1975), German swimmer * Jake (gamer), American ''Overwatch'' player and coach Animals * Jake (rescue dog), a ... and a person only identified as Steve in the liner notes. Musically, the songs range from straightforward acoustic tunes, to hard rock songs and experimental instrumentals. A small discrepancy in the title of the album exists, since ''the graceful-fallen mango'' is written on one side of the CD's spine and ''THE GRACEFUL FALLEN MANGO'' is written on the other. Western Vinyl shows the title as the latter, following no ...
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The Getty Address
''The Getty Address'' is an album by American experimental rock group Dirty Projectors. The album is a concept album and is described as "a glitch opera" about musician Don Henley, although it also explores themes like ancient Mexico, post- 9/11 America, and oil. Background and recording The album boasts over 25 musicians on it, most of whom contributed to the orchestral and choral backing of the album. These parts were recorded at Yale University as well as other locations in New Haven, Connecticut over a period spanning five months and were chopped up digitally to create the backings of the album. Dave Longstreth then overdubbed his own vocals, guitar, bass, and other instruments to create the songs on the album. Although the lyrics have been described as gibberish, the words actually do tell a narrative beginning with Don Henley contemplating suicide, and ending with a new installment of Longstreth's songs involving brown finches. Jason Crock, in a review for Pitchfork, f ...
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Slaves' Graves And Ballads
Slaves' Graves & Ballads is the third album by American experimental rock band Dirty Projectors. It is a combination of two different recordings entitled ''Slaves' Graves'' and ''Ballads'', hence the name of the LP combination of the two. The two sessions have drastically different sounds: the first features frontman and guitarist David Longstreth accompanied by a chamber orchestra called ''The Orchestral Society for the Preservation of the Orchestra''; the second features Dave and his guitar recorded by Adam Forkner Adam Forkner (born March 27, 1976) is a musician/producer. Discography As Airboy Express * ''LAST STOP BREATH ART'' (2018) * ''Acrylic Sleep Museum'' (2017) * ''SUNWINTER'' (2017) As White Rainbow * ''ZOME'' (2005) * ''BOX'' (2006) * ''Sun Shi .... On this release tracks 1-7 includes the ''Slaves' Graves'' songs while tracks 8-14 constitutes ''Ballads''. Track listing *''Tracks 1-7 recorded in Dwight Chapel, New Haven, CT in December 2002.'' *''Tracks 8-14 reco ...
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