{"id":804619,"date":"2020-02-26T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=958122"},"modified":"2020-02-26T08:00:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T15:00:03","slug":"watch-dirty-projectors-wander-and-ponder-through-new-york-city-in-overlord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-dirty-projectors-wander-and-ponder-through-new-york-city-in-overlord\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Dirty Projectors Wander and Ponder Through New York City in \u2018Overlord\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Dirty.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Indie rock stalwarts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/dirty-projectors\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dirty-projectors\" data-tag=\"dirty-projectors\">Dirty Projectors<\/a> have unveiled their first new music in two years, a disconcertingly serene tune titled \u201cOverlord.\u201d The track marks the first studio offering to feature the new lineup band leader Dave Longstreth put together around 2018, with touring guitarist and back-up singer Maia Friedman providing lead vocals and co-writing \u201cOverlord\u201d with Longstreth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cOverlord\u201d is vintage Dirty Projectors, with Friedman lacing her soft vocals atop shuffling drums and finger-picked guitar. And, of course, there are plenty of meticulously layered backing harmonies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaia and I wrote the words to \u2018Overlord\u2019 at Ivo Shandor in Los Angeles,\u201d Longstreth said. \u201cIt\u2019s a song about how there\u2019s no difference between convenience and freedom, technology is always good, and charisma and trustworthiness are the same things. At least I think that\u2019s what we came up with\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cOverlord\u201d also arrives with a music video that opens with Longstreth playing guitar in front of an auto repair shop, and goes on to feature Friedman and other members of Dirty Projectors performing the song around New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Dirty Projectors released their most recent studio album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-dirty-projectors-lamp-lit-prose-is-full-of-dizzying-exhausting-prog-pop-699085\/\"><i>Lamp Lit Prose<\/i><\/a>, in 2018. Late last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/dirtyprojectors.bandcamp.com\/album\/sing-the-melody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">they released <i>Sing the Melody<\/i><\/a>, which found them recording live arrangements of old and new songs at Power Station studios in New York City.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-dirty-projectors-wander-and-ponder-through-new-york-city-in-overlord-958122\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indie rock stalwarts Dirty Projectors have unveiled their first new music in two years, a disconcertingly serene tune titled \u201cOverlord.\u201d The track marks the first studio offering to feature the new lineup band leader Dave Longstreth put together around 2018, with touring guitarist and back-up singer Maia Friedman providing lead vocals and co-writing \u201cOverlord\u201d with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-21 16:04:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}