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Artist News
Dirty Projectors recording new album
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 20 October 2011
Dirty Projectors main man David Longstreth has revealed that he is working on the follow-up to 2009’s ‘Bitte Orca’. Planned for a spring release, the record is being written and recorded in an abandoned house in the New York State countryside.
Longstreth told Spin: “It’s pretty close to complete. Right now we’re just making a shitload of music. It’s not very focused around the idea of an album per se, it’s just about making a lot of tunes. That sounds like we’re unfocused, but we’re trying to get the album out by next spring”.
Explaining the setting for making the record, he said: “It’s this couple’s house that lived here back in the 90s. It’s a strange place because it’s fully furnished but it hasn’t been lived in for fifteen years. The first four months of the year, I was building fires in the wood stove and using New York Times papers from 1994 as kindling. It was weird to read some of the articles from back then before I burned them … The house has this weird feeling about it. The house is basically part of the woods. This spring, a flood of ladybugs invaded the house and now in the attic there’s this weird flying bug thing”.
