Rise Above

The Dirty Projectors

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 11, 2007)
• Original Release Date: September 11, 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Dead Oceans
• ASIN: B000U3DF0O
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #45,795 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. What I See

2. No More

3. Depression

4. Six Pack

5. Thirsty and Miserable

6. Police Story

7. Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie

8. Spray Paint (The Walls)

9. Room 13

10. Rise Above

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Dirty Projectors - Rise Above - Dead Oceans - DOC001

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars black flag, white heart, October 31, 2007

By	David M. DeLeon (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Rise Above is Dirty Projectors front-man (and only permanent member) Dave Longstreth's attempt to, get this, rewrite Black Flag's album Damaged from memory. But this isn't a collection of covers - what he's ended up with here is a pile of ethereal, amazing music with the characteristic complex Projectors harmonies, syncopation, and turn-your-head-around compositions that bears no resemblance to Black Flag, despite the fact that they share the same lyrics. Take "Police Story", the most iconoclastic track. It's a soft, flowing, reed-heavy piece with an opening that feels somewhere out of Debussy, at yet the lyrics go, "This f*cking city, it's run by pigs, they take away the rights from all the kids."

The amount of re-imagining it took to create these tracks makes the album something for the annals of pop music art-history. Interesting museum installation idea: play Rise Above on one side, Damaged on the other, and see if your head explodes.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Soundtrack to my Life...., June 19, 2009

By	Christine Helmerson "Chris" (Wilmington, DE USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I'm a big fan of the dirty projectors. They put on an awesome show & their records are never lacking. I own this album, Slaves Graves & Ballads, and New Attitude. All are fantastic. This CD specifically I could play on repeat forever & it wouldn't get old.

I would agree with the 2 star review, in that yes this band is different. If you can't handle some intentional off beat non-traditional usage of vocals, guitar and drums dirty projectors is not the band for you. I would definitely not compare them to Clash or the Arctic Monkeys though.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intresting twist to Black flags Damaged and a very interesting band, August 24, 2008

By	Yoshu Brown "musicjunky..scratch" (Virginia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Not really into the orginal album that this was taken from but I can respect it. Dave has a way with rock and I believe soul beacause it heavy on the rock punk reggae side with a lead singer that sings so soulful.(although I blelieve the backup singer/guitarist Angel studied R&B music which give it so much soul). There should be another genre created for this type of music and it should be Rock & Soul but we shouldn't try to create boxes for this band what they do is even beyond that they are such a wild and out there band but the music doesn't leave you to out there. If you love this album go back further to records like Glad Fact, Slaves' Graves & Ballads their a whole different type of band (literally)and musically.

More importantly the songs have substance and I've kept this CD in constant rotation.

My personal favorites
Spray paint(The walls) My personal anthem (sometimes I feel like that)
Rise Above
No More
What I see
Miserable and Thirsty
Room 13
Police Story

hell the whole album