Stripped of the brume that kept Dave Longstreth’s Dirty Projectors from being heard as the pop band they have always been, ‘Knotty Pine,’ their new collaboration with David Byrne for the charity compilation Dark Was the Night, is the first real step towards renouncing that opacity  and taking that leap — ever so slight [...]

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