The Getty Address:Dirty Projectors

Title: the Getty Address

Label: Western Vinyl

Genre: conceptual freak-folk

Rating: 6.1 of 7

Holy sweet Jesus, this album is crazzzy as hell. Yale dropout and the principal Dirty Projector, Dave Longstreth has finally recorded an album that I can easily translate to freak folk, I think anyways. To say the music is left-of-center is an understatement, but for the most part it works pretty well. For the project, Longstreth has used everything from an arrangement of guitars, saxophone, trombone, trumpet, percussion from his middle school, beer bottle flutes, a woman’s choir, a small orchestra, drum samples and a cello octet. The most amazing part of the album is the heavily constructed concept. Inspired by Aztec mythology, Justin Timberlake, the Eagles and the 9/11 aftermath, Longstreth writes a story centered around Eagles frontman Don Henley. Henley searches the world for love, first deciding it was nature, then marrying Sacagawea (yes, the one you are thinking of), and later finding himself at the battle of Gettysburg and having the same dream as Aztec emperor Moctezuma I (represented on the Mexican flag). If you get a chance read the whole story in the booklet. Warning, this is not for the closed-minded.

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