Dirty Projectors
Dirty Projectors is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2002. The band is the project of singer-songwriter David Longstreth, who has served as the band's sole constant member throughout numerous line-up changes. The band's current line-up consists of Longstreth, alongside Karl McComas-Reichl (bass) and Christopher Bear (drums).
Since its formation, Dirty Projectors has released ten full-length studio albums, with the project featuring major contributions from co-lead vocalist and guitarist Amber Coffman from 2006 to 2013. Following the release of Rise Above (2007), an album of Black Flag songs as re-imagined from memory, Dirty Projectors released their break-through album, Bitte Orca in 2009. Featuring lead vocals from Longstreth, Coffman, and Angel Deradoorian, the album received widespread critical acclaim and increased the band's exposure significantly. Its follow-up, Swing Lo Magellan (2012) was released to further acclaim.
Following the departure of Coffman in 2013, Longstreth focused Dirty Projectors into a mostly studio-based project, releasing the albums, Dirty Projectors and Lamp Lit Prose, in 2017 and 2018, respectively. Dirty Projectors became a full band once again in 2018 with the addition of co-lead vocalists Felicia Douglass, Maia Friedman and Kristin Slipp to tour in support of Lamp Lit Prose. Inspired by the chemistry and dynamic of the band's current line-up, the group recorded and released five EPs across 2020.
In 2024, former member Olga Bell returned to the band's line-up ahead of performances of an orchestral song cycle, named Song of the Earth, which was released as a studio album in April 2025 on Nonesuch Records. In late 2025, Longstreth repurposed Dirty Projectors into a trio, featuring bassist Karl McComas-Reichl and Grizzly Bear drummer Christopher Bear.
Bank On
- 2025-03-19T00:00:00.000000Z
5EPs
- 2020-11-20T00:00:00.000000Z
Lose Your Love
- 2020-10-15T00:00:00.000000Z
Lamp Lit Prose
- 2018-07-13T00:00:00.000000Z
About To Die
- 2012-11-05T00:00:00.000000Z
Bitte Orca
- 2009-06-03T00:00:00.000000Z
Rise Above
- 2007-09-11T00:00:00.000000Z
The Glad Fact
- 2003-04-11T00:00:00.000000Z
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