DIRTY PROJECTORS & POLAR BEAR - CrawDaddy - 28th March (2 Viewers)

[coast to coast]

Don't think they could be less jazz if they tried.

 

[ernesto]

Don't think they could be less jazz if they tried.

yeah im sure keith jarrett thinks theyre at the forefront of the jazz scene and not just indie poseurs

 

[Unicron]

Ha ha, nick ripped into this lot today.

http://nickthinks.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/dirty-projectors-rise-above-dead-oceans-2007/

 

[Alan Remorse]

haha fair play nick

 

[coast to coast]

I'm still wowed by the levels of hatred this BRILLIANT record provokes.

 

[ernesto]

Ha ha, nick ripped into this lot today.

http://nickthinks.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/dirty-projectors-rise-above-dead-oceans-2007/

jesus, he hit the nail on the head there. BAM!

 

[Villa R]

don't think the records live up to DPs live at all -- they fucking blow you away....amazing!!!!

 

[Alan Remorse]

I'm still wowed by the levels of hatred this BRILLIANT record provokes.

Ah I wouldn't say it's all that surprising.
Whether the record is any good is obviously subjective, but "reimagining" (or whatever) a classic record that lots of people love and grew up with - myself included - is obviously going to rub people up the wrong way.

 

[coast to coast]

Set from SXSW was on NPR website.... mp3s from said gig here:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?a3t4kmj0ytt

Setlist:
1 - Intro
2 - Cannibal Resource
3 - Remade Horizon (insane hocketing vocal interplay!)
4 - Bitte Bitte Orca
5 - Stillness Is My Move

 

[coast to coast]

Bitte Orca has been internetted.