Album Description"Spellbinding in its complete originality." - VENUS "Odd, engrossing, and gorgeous." - CHICAGO READER "[Longstreth] is ... a no-brow genius, who claims to find similar solaces in the work of Beethoven, Wagner, Zeppelin, and Timberlake." - PITCHFORK In between a massive national tour in support of The Getty Address and relocation to Brooklyn, chief Dirty Projector Dave Longstreth wrote an EP's worth of crazy new songs. Playing the electric counterpoint to The Getty Address, New Attitude is a refreshingly pared-down disc: simple, beautiful, and focused. It is dominated by the sound of chiming microtonal guitars, sub-bass dragon breaths, a sextet of cellos and double-basses, and, most of all, Longstreth's singing, which has never been so varied or so wonderfully weird. Few musicians have been called "genius" by Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie) and inspired Prefuse 73 to declare that he is "quitting music." Few musicians can count Devendra Banhart and Alan Pierson, conductor of New Music collective Alarm Will Sound, among their admirers. Accolades for The Getty Address continue to roll in, and songs from the album have been featured on The Wire's Wiretapper 14 and on Salon.com. In 2005, Dirty Projectors shared stages with Tyondai Braxton, Akron/Family, CocoRosie, Kip Malone (TV on the Radio), Six Organs of Admittance, Yo La Tengo, Oneida, and more. This is how Dave Longstreth describes New Attitude: "For me, this EP was all about full-spectrum. I tried to make completely hit songs that each created a rainbow of sound by defining poles of extreme low-for that I used sine waves-and extreme high, like the disco car-ad three-part falsetto harmony choruses in `Imagine It.' If you like rainbows, this record is for you."
Track Listings (7) - Disc #1