Dirty Projectors WV039 || Format: CD Graceful Fallen Mango Release Date: 12/6/2005

WESTERN VINYL WWW.WESTERNVINYL.COM [email protected] SELLING POINTS —If the intent of the media is to obfuscate 1. Spring Is Here and mystify the artist and his creation, such 2. Follow Me Not If You Still Care venerable mediators as Magnet, Pitchfork, 3. Easily Resigned Resonance, Jane, and Dusted all caught on and dirty projected heavily onto DP's first three 4. I Don't Know releases. 5. Lay Down Your Restless Bones 6. Constellation That's Mine —Collaborators include members of Wolf 7. Time for Bed Colonel and Dear Nora. 8. She Turns to Ash —Dirty Projectors toured extensively in 2005 9. What If I in support of their last record The Getty 10. The Graceful Fallen Mango Address, played triumphant shows at South by 11. Maggie and Me Southwest in Austin in 2004, and will be 12. Everything Will Happen playing dozens of shows this Fall/Winter. 13. We Are Striving 14. Yield; Be Held (Aloft) —They have shared bills with the Microphones, Landing, , and 15. At The End of The Day Broken Social Scene, among many others. "A gorgeous basement epic, The Graceful Fallen Mango was recorded by Dave Longstreth on a four-track and computer on his own, save for a few guest —Dirty Projectors will tour even more appearances by members of Wolf Colonel and Dear Nora. With vocals that seem to extensively in 2006, with a tour from to Texas in March, two full-country tours have been genetically engineered from strands of Paul McCartney, Ian McCulloch, Jeff planned for Summer and Fall, and tours in the Buckley, Freddie Mercury, and Elvis Costello, Longstreth's songs are full of mournful UK and Scandinavia anticipated. The live show and soaring, if sometimes off-kilter, melodies that far exceed the album's modest is epic and can include Max-MSP video origins. While some songs are lush, elaborately orchestrated with armies of misfit projection, a small orchestra and women's instruments calling to mind a psychedelic Pet Sounds at times, others ("Lay Down choir. Restless Bones," "Time for Bed," and "Follow Me Not If You Still Care") are sparse, —An animated movie of The Getty Address populated only by Longstreth's haunting vocals and acoustic guitars (and perhaps a by underground animator James Sumner will stray keyboard), the result being akin to timeless pub-honed lullabies. Probably the be released on DVD with a 5.1 mix and live album's most stripped-down offering, "Lay Down Restless Bones," may also be its footage in May 2006. Sumner has been strongest. This is not to say that the rest of the album lacks beauty, merely that on working on the movie almost as long as it this song Longstreth's heart seems less obscured and more vulnerable, especially took Longstreth to make the music! A real deepening of the saga. near the end as his voice shakes and he pleads "lay down your restless bones and sleep." A bit more "rock" in its construction, "Easily Resigned" calls to mind similarly —Previous Dirty Projectors release The Getty quirky outfits like the Gerbils with Andy Partridge fronting, and a more raucous, Address (WEST032) did very well in CMJ noisy number like "She Turns to Ash" has a spark of curiosity and inventiveness charts, hitting #1 on many college stations,. similar to that which fueled the early releases of Guided By Voices. The album's title PRESS QUOTES track is just over a minute's worth of looped guitar swells, keyboard meandering, and "[The Getty Address is] spellbinding in its tick-tocking, all of which seems a bit Pink Floydian in nature. Overall, The Graceful complete originality." -Venus Magazine Fallen Mango is an endearing collection of lovely, poetic pieces mostly drawn together by Longstreth's remarkable vocals. Truly unique and timeless in nature, this "[The Getty Address is]odd, engrossing, and is one of those great albums that could just as easily be a new creation as a gorgeous." -Chicago Reader rediscovered classic, which is a lovely quality in a record like this." - All Music Guide "Dirty Projectors is less bound to folk standards, the ones that Beck often chains himself to, and thus they succeed at carefully wrought and intellectually inspired music without muffling their beguiling effervescence." -Pop Matters