Blog: Citizen Dick

In 2009, The Dirty Projectors not only put out an album ( Bitte Orca ) that hovered near the top of many of the more influential end-of-year rankings (e.g., Pitchfork, Pop Matters, Rolling Stone , etc.),  they did something much more difficult. That is, they put out a record that - like, love, or loathe - a writer had to acknowledge. If it wasn't on your list, you had to say why. If it was on it, but in the basement, you had to justify it. There weren't many other records like that [...]

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