Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca

Guardian“One of rock's most compelling curiosities...” At first its fractious arrangements and dazzling vocal invention can seem unfathomably free, but attention reveals a compositional precision and unique melodic gift...

The Times“A dazzling array of songs...” This is art-pop in which the words on either side of the hyphen are equally balanced...

The Independent“Not yet reviewed”

The Telegraph“Not yet reviewed”

allmusic“Sounds that will simultaneously draw in and confound the listener...” David Longstreth isn't quite trying to make things easy for his listeners on Bitte Orca, but there's far too much pleasure in this music for its eccentricities to put off anyone who is open to its gleeful, eclectic, internationalist heart...

Uncut“Artful, adventurous and ecstatic avant-garde pop...” Bitte Orca feels nothing less than a modern equivalent to Talking Heads’ Fear Of Music or Scritti’s Cupid & Psyche 85 –art-rock with intellectual rigour, borderless curiosity, and no fear of the mainstream...

MusicOMH“These are all very much "growers"...” Clever, original, complicated, sometimes frustrating but more often revelatory, it will, given time, uncover its manifold delights...

Financial Times“Not yet reviewed”

Pitchfork“A triumphant art-pop record...” Bitte Orca is one of the more purely enjoyable indie-rock records in an awfully long time. It's breezy without a hint of slightness, tuneful but with its fair share of tumult, concise and inventive and replayable and plain old fun...

Drowned In Sound“Pretty much a work of unmitigated genius...” Dazzling as it is, Bitte Orca isn’t a record that’ll reduce many to tears, except perhaps of awe. But when something’s so astonishing in every other respect, we can allow for that...