Kids, eh? The earliest footage of Dirty Projectors on YouTube is a 2006 performance from SXSW. It’s just a couple of minutes of Not Having Found, but astonishing and thrilling nonetheless. The same lineup recorded a session for Austin’s KVRX Radio on 17 March 2006 and two of the songs - Not Having Found and Fucked For Life - are available from KVRX as mp3 downloads. There are pictures too, including one of guitarist Spencer Kingman eating an onion as if it were an apple. In other words, this is another essential addition to the Dirty Projectors canon.
Back in 2009, the Temecula Sunrise EP looks like it could go either way. Manchester’s Piccadilly Records shows it as a very specific 400-copies-only 12″ single coming out on Monday, whereas it seems to have disappeared from the Domino release schedule altogether. Over on Pitchfork, Bitte Orca was voted the 56th best album of the decade in their Top 200 albums of the 2000s feature. Cue a retread of the “This list is sooo WRONG!” / “Come on, it’s only a poll” debate. Hey, it is only a poll.