bitte orca (dirty projecters)
This album is rich with a frantic energy. A squealy, squeaky, energetic art pop tone. High pitched guitars, high pitched vocals. Jagged, rocky, and light, delightfully strange. This certainly feels like an album- the individual songs are all right, but the whole is really quite satisfying and fun.
Some of the individual standouts… “Cannibal Resource” builds its energy nicely, capturing this fascinating intersection of steady and crazy- plus it's catchy as hell. “Stillness is the Move” has a very cool sound- vaguely eastern, driven by great female vocals. It's a cool, strange sound. “Useful Chamber” is the song of the album- not necessarily the best, but the most definitive. It grows and branches off in surprising directions- it feels like 3 or 4 songs chopped and pieced together, with that energetic and ultimately awesome titular chant. “No Intention” is one of my favorites, I love the bright tangle of the guitar. And “Remade Horizon” has these imposing, frantic echoing background vocals that I really love. That seems to be one of the defining characteristics of this group- they play vocals off of eachother in frantic, exciting, strange ways.
I didn't always like Dave Longstreth's voice- vaguely squealy and whimpering in this gratingly 'indie-rock' cliche way. But overall I really liked the key elements of this album- the bright guitars, the gorgeous, perfectly strange background vocals, the overall tone of energy and experimentation. Good stuff.
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