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DOWNLOAD: Dirty Projectors - Knotty Pine (With David Byrne)

Posted 1/16/2009 10:32 AM by Samuel Duke

Tags: pop, indie

One of the bright spots in my overpopulated RSS reader is David Byrne's reguarly-updated blog. If you've never been there, go take a look. There are no pictures of stuff you can't afford and the writing is unsurprisingly insightful and informative, so when this track between Byrne and Brooklyn's weirdo-pop deans Dirty Projectors surfaced yesterday from Red Hot's Dark Was The Night comp (the organization's twentieth collection to benefit HIV/AIDS research), I scrolled back through the entries to find what the former Talking Heads frontman had to say about it. And dude hit the freaking nail on the head regarding the Projectors: "Their music has familiar elements, yet often sounds like pop music by someone who has read about the form, but never heard it, and then handed the essential building blocks to make some songs." That notion couldn't be more evident on "Knotty Pine," a song that hobbles along on start-and-stop drums and a crawling, almost dainty, acoustic guitar and piano line. It's lovable in it's thinness, the obvious product of a collaborative afternoon recording session between two very talented artists trying to do nothing more than write a simple song. Says Byrne about the finished product, "I still feel that I may have straightened out these DP tunes just a tiny bit, although perhaps it’s not an entirely bad thing: I sense that my participation reveals that there is a lot of method into what — at least for some — appears to be the total madness of the DP’s tunes." You got it, dude.

Dirty Projectors - Knotty Pine (with David Byrne)

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