National Exposure: The band is getting national shine via NPR and Pitchfork’s regular New Music Monday spot on ABC.
More important is the way critics are talking about the experimentally inclined band: “stepping away from left field,” “bright pop center,” “enjoyable.” Longstreth has also solidified his lineup around the guitarist/vocalist Amber Coffman and keyboardist/vocalist Angel Deradoorian, and the lovely pair are featured on the cover of the album.Ĭritical Reception: Bitte Orca’s currently enjoying an 87 score on Metacritic, including a Best New Music tag from Pitchfork.
After a string of releases on small indies Dead Oceans and Western Vinyl, the band jumped to the higher-profile Domino for Orca. So, is the Leap imminent? Vulture breaks down the Projectors’ position. But the really-fucking-good (and accessible!) Bitte Orca shook things up. Smart money was on Vivian Girls, the sunny punk-rock trio, to be next in line, and not the proudly odd Dirty Projectors (their 2007 album Rise Above was supposedly a reimagining of Black Flag’s Damaged, an album that lead Projector Dave Longstreth hadn’t heard in over ten years). If your mother could theoretically bring up the band in conversation without you spitting out your O.J., they’ve made the Leap. What, exactly, does making the Leap constitute? It’s not the type of thing that can be quantified in record sales (although those do jump, as well), but rather in the slice of the national consciousness the bands take up after making it, as manifested in big-festival sets, late-night–TV appearances, and national-magazine features. In 2007, the National released Boxer, and went Leaping themselves.
Later that year, the Hold Steady broke out with Boys and Girls in America. They passed the baton to their buddies TV on the Radio, who had an auspicious 2004 debut but officially made the Leap with 2006’s beloved Return to Cookie Mountain. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs got the streak started when they went from local sensation to a national one after the release of “Maps” as a single in early 2004. Ever since it leaked in April, the Dirty Projectors’ Bitte Orca - the Brooklyn band’s sixth album, officially out yesterday - has been so thoroughly salivated over, we have to ask: Will they be the next Brooklyn band to make the Leap?īrooklyn hipsters take their share of ridicule, but the scene they belong to continues to birth a remarkable string of nationally successful, and awesome, rock-and-roll bands.
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