Dirty Projectors - 5 EPs (Indie Ex. Crystal Clear Exclusive

Dirty Projectors - 5 EPs (Indie Ex. Crystal Clear ExclusiveIndie Exclusive Vinyl LP pressing. The newest chapter for Dirty Projectors is a sequence of five four song EPs. Each EP features lead vocals by a different band member including Maia Friedman, Felicia Douglass, Kristin Silpp and Dave Longstreth. The final EP features vocals by all members. Each song collection is strikingly different from the next, but true to itself: Maia's Window Opens is acoustic and folky; Felicia's Flight Tower is super future,

five-year-old son of Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz

broken-hearted lover

suggests some level of heightened ambition -- but From a Room

Ashley Kahn

the album is as politically themed and downbeat as the title and subtitle suggest

Critically lauded and long beloved

live techno edits

the sound veers away from the bubblegum nature of her early work or the genre-hopping aspects of other releases

It's an impressive feat of reinvention that manages to keep Vernon's emotional core fully intact no matter how far the music strays from established Bon Iver territory

I might say something stupid

assisted by some serious singing from Black Thought and an inspiring chorus from Dice Raw

Yolanda Pittman (background vocals)