Albums of the Decade - 59. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan (2012)

59. DIRTY PROJECTORS  - SWING LO MAGELLAN (2012) 

The bend he puts on the guitar. The off-kilter vigour and experimentation - yet still falling on the right cylinder of accessibility - David Longstreth and his amazingly orchestrated backing singers put out their best album here - as it jets into twee territory and all the better for it.

When the highlight "Impregenable Question" was first heard by moi - the hopeless romantic I was back then - I wanted the song to be heard, received and shared - but the lady in question just batted it away and gave me a bottle of Heineken - and though nothing surfaced between us - the picnic that we had suffuses itself on that track and remains etched in my memory.

"Just From Chevron" has a punch-like imapact, whacking me in the gut with it's appetite for wit, and "About To Die" has a penchant for hedonism - which  bangles along a great trajectory. Mega fan all around then - an understated career highlight from the dirties. <3 p="">

Albums of 2012 - 7. Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan

7. DIRTY PROJECTORS - SWING LO MAGELLAN

Albums that polarize opinion are cool in my book. I saw this band in Brighton in 2009 at the time of Bitte Orca and they blew my mind with the sheer bend on the guitar and the vocals of Amber and Haley. It's like when mermaids cry. Massively otherworldly.

David Longstreth is cool too. pPople will say it's his band but oh! you can hear! ideas! Others' ideas heres too. David, Amber and Haley, oh how I idolize you. What are you? You must be from NYC? Hey peeps! Classic songwrting with an avant-spin for a dickhead that wants something different.