Blog: PopMatters

As ever, Dirty Projectors follow their own muse on Swing Lo Magellan . It's just that they do so by reining in their restless talents this time around. As Dirty Projectors' origin story goes, frontman David Longstreth dropped out of Yale when he found the environment not so conducive for the kind of music he wanted to make. Not to read too much into his biography, but it's easy to imagine Longstreth as one of those gifted and talented types who excelled in school even if he didn't find so much use from what a formal education [...]