''Lamp Lit Prose'' is the eighth

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by American

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group

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 b ...

, and was released on Domino Records on July 13, 2018.

Production

The album was produced by David Longstreth at his Los Angeles studio.

Release

The band supported the album with a tour, which began in May 2018 with significant personnel changes. They released the first single off the album, "Break-Thru", on May 2 along with a music video. In ''

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'', Andy Cush described the single as sounding "more immediately Dirty Projectors-ish than anything on the self-titled album" released in 2017. On June 14, they released a second single, "That's a Lifestyle", with an animated music video by Kitty Faingold. In ''

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'', Chris DeVille also contrasted this single with the tenor of ''

'', saying "That's A Lifestyle" echoed earlier albums "''Bitte Orca'' and ''Swing Lo Magellan'', the pop-minded prog exercises that transformed Dirty Projectors from underground oddities to full-fledged indie rock stars. It's a magnificently pretty guitar tapestry that never lets its complexity smother the pop appeal." On July 12, the day before the album's release, the band released their third single, "I Feel Energy".

Reception

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, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an

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score of 77, based on 27 reviews. At ''

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'',

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called the album "a flood of ideas and magnificent vocal arrangements" which he found "by turns dazzling and exhausting." Jazz Monroe of ''

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'' praised the album's "more hopeful, chipper kind of songwriting."

Track listing

Personnel

;Musicians * David Longstreth – acoustic guitar , 12-string guitar , electric guitar , Juno ,

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, vocals , piano , drums , drum production , guitars ,

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, string arrangement , bass , horn arrangement , organ * Syd – vocals * Lorely Rodriguez (Empress Of) – additional vocals , vocals * Teresa Eggers – additional vocals * Mauro Refosco –

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, percussion * Tyondai Braxton – modular processing * Todd Simon – trumpet ,

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, French horn ,

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* Tracy Wannomae – tenor saxophone , baritone saxophone , bass clarinet , recorder , alto saxophone * Mike Johnson – drums * Benjamin Jacobson – violin * Andrew Bulbrook – violin * Jonathan Moerschel – viola * Eric Byers – cello *

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– vocals *

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– vocals *

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– vocals * Amber Mark – vocals * Juliane Graf – trombone , bass trombone , tuba *

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– higurashi recording * Daniel Luna –

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* Francisco Javier Paredes – bongos * Nat Baldwin – bass *

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– vocals * Rostam Batmanglij – vocals * Katy Davidson (Dear Nora) – vocals ;Technical * David Longstreth – mixing *

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– mixing *

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– mastering * Sonny DiPerri – drum engineering , percussion engineering , guitar engineering * David Tolomei – drum engineering , string engineering , horn engineering , percussion engineering , piano engineering * Miro Mackie – vocal engineering , piano engineering , guitar engineering * Ryan Tuttle – guitar, Wurlitzer and Rhodes engineering , piano engineering * Robby Moncrieff – guitar engineering , Rhodes and Wurlitzer engineering , bass and organ engineering , additional engineering * Nikolaj Nielsen – Robin Pecknold's vocal engineering * Logan Patrick – Rostam Batmanglij's vocal engineering ;Artwork * David Longstreth – art direction * Joe Cariati – glass sculptures * Jason Frank Rothenberg – photography * Kelsey Fugere – prop styling * Teresa Eggers – prop styling * Rob Carmichael (Seen) – design

Charts

References

{{Authority control 2018 albums Dirty Projectors albums Domino Recording Company albums Albums produced by David Longstreth