Week in Rock: Bitte Byrne Edition

The Most Important Album of Our Time is Here*

Brooklyn band Dirty Projectors (Friends of Björk) have released a new album, called Bitte Orca, and as of this past Tuesday it has been available for purchase. So consider this a PSA: buy it (Stereogum has even posted a widget thing so you can listen beforehand, as if that were even necessary).

Okay so why is it good... well, you know how it seems like music has sort of sucked for a while now? Sure, we have our Arcade Fires and our Animal Collectives, but what about our parents and grandparents who got to experience entire new genres of music being created...what about Lisztomania (this one), what about the riots during Rite of Spring, what about Beatlemania? If music hasn't made you want to jump off a building or scream lately, then it hasn't been done right. We don't want to be jealous of our grandparent's musical era do we? Doomed to be nostalgic of a time we weren't even there to experience? Well good news: though there are plenty of nods to Led Zeppelin in this new Dirty Projectors album, this is it. A new era is upon us. The bar has been risen. The game has been changed. It's a music revolution. Listen to this one in a padded room and scream their name, banshees!

*unsubstantiated

(Photo by Ryan Muir)