Here's the video to the Dirty Projectors "Stillness is The Move":
It's a great song, floats along on the vocals and funks along in the music, nice combination. And the video is pretty random, on a hillside, dancing, a llama, some "wolves" and running with the wolves and walking with the llama, some odd trouser decisions.
Bitte Orca is an album that I've seen talked about in similar terms to The Mars Volta's Octahedron. It is an "accessible" album after, the implication being, a series of esoteric nonsense. Not having spent much time on the Dirty Projectors new album, and not being much of a fan anyway, I wouldn't like to comment too much on them beyond saying that I really like the new album on the couple of spins I've given it, admittedly more than I liked the other albums. On The Mars Volta I would say (and I still haven't given the new album enough attention, I've been distracted "doing my homework", getting far too into Frances The Mute and Amputechture) that it's not so much about accessibility, but about restraint. The album still has its more "obscure moments" and the sound hasn't changed too much, just the longer freak outs have disappeared. The point about accessibility is misleading because it's not such a muddying of the sound to make it appeal to people who can't listen to their other albums. It is still very much a Mars Volta album, rather than being the Mars Volta "pop album".
I think a comparison can be made between this album and Amputechture, but whereas that album concentrated the rock element, even within the different instruments being employed, it didn't really go for the long noodlings, this album tightens the rock element, keeping it under wraps, there is always a tension of what is about to be unleashed, an album of musical violence under restraint. In a way exemplifying the title of the Dirty Projectors song. Stillness is the move.
Further comments on The Mars Volta album when I've managed a concentrated listen, hopefully in the next few days.
It's a great song, floats along on the vocals and funks along in the music, nice combination. And the video is pretty random, on a hillside, dancing, a llama, some "wolves" and running with the wolves and walking with the llama, some odd trouser decisions.
Bitte Orca is an album that I've seen talked about in similar terms to The Mars Volta's Octahedron. It is an "accessible" album after, the implication being, a series of esoteric nonsense. Not having spent much time on the Dirty Projectors new album, and not being much of a fan anyway, I wouldn't like to comment too much on them beyond saying that I really like the new album on the couple of spins I've given it, admittedly more than I liked the other albums. On The Mars Volta I would say (and I still haven't given the new album enough attention, I've been distracted "doing my homework", getting far too into Frances The Mute and Amputechture) that it's not so much about accessibility, but about restraint. The album still has its more "obscure moments" and the sound hasn't changed too much, just the longer freak outs have disappeared. The point about accessibility is misleading because it's not such a muddying of the sound to make it appeal to people who can't listen to their other albums. It is still very much a Mars Volta album, rather than being the Mars Volta "pop album".
I think a comparison can be made between this album and Amputechture, but whereas that album concentrated the rock element, even within the different instruments being employed, it didn't really go for the long noodlings, this album tightens the rock element, keeping it under wraps, there is always a tension of what is about to be unleashed, an album of musical violence under restraint. In a way exemplifying the title of the Dirty Projectors song. Stillness is the move.
Further comments on The Mars Volta album when I've managed a concentrated listen, hopefully in the next few days.
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