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Dirty Projectors Releasing New Album: 'Bitte Orca'

9:02 a.m. · February 27, 2009 · by Nick Neyland

Dave Longstreth’s Dirty Projectors are the closest we’ll get to a 21st century equivalent to Talking Heads, so it’s not surprising to learn that the band members have been collaborating with David Byrne during their brief between-album hiatus. Dirty Projectors have also signed a deal with Domino Records and will release their first album for the label, titled Bitte Orca, on June 9.

Preceding the album’s release will be a single, “Stillness is the Move,” which will be released on 12-inch single and download on April 21. The band also has a brief tour coming up, which includes a number of dates at the annual SXSW festival, and is already proposing a quickie follow up to Bitte Orca, which is likely to be released on Dirty Projectors’ former label, Dead Oceans. [Pitchfork]

Bitte Orca track list:

1. Cannibal Resource
2. Temecula Sunrise
3. The Bride
4. Stillness Is the Move
5. Two Doves
6. Useful Chamber
7. No Intention
8. Remade Horizon
9. Fluorescent Half Dome

• 02.27 Bennington, VT: Bennington College Student Center
• 02.28 Haverford, PA: Lunt Basement
• 03-06 Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center
• 03.07 Grinnell, IA: Grinnell College Gardner Lounge
• 03.19 Austin, TX: The Parish
• 03.19 Austin, TX: Emo's Annex 
• 03.20 Austin, TX: Emo's Jr.
• 03.21 Austin, TX: SXSW TBA

Photo Credit: Nina Mouritzen