Dirty Projectors

Dirty Projectors is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York, formed in 2002 and signed to Domino Records. This concert at Sid The Cat Auditorium, a Los Angeles-area venue that mainly hosts classical music, centers on the band's newest material and a stripped-down lineup without guitar.

Dirty Projectors blends art rock, experimental music and alternative rock. Formed in Brooklyn in 2002 and signed to Domino Records, the band has now launched its own label imprint, Well-Tempered Zealot, with the single "Jumbotron," its first new music in a while. The song's title plays on the lens imagery in the band's name, with David Longstreth singing about two kinds of magnification: the vastness of the world seen through a child's eyes, and the way new parenthood can make life feel small and enormous at once.

For this performance the arrangement drops the guitar. Longstreth plays piano, joined by Chris Bear of Grizzly Bear on drums and Karl McComas-Reichl of the Jeff Parker Trio on upright bass. A sextet of Los Angeles saxophone and brass session players completes the group, giving the new material a horn-driven sound.

Sid The Cat Auditorium is an auditorium in the Los Angeles area that mainly hosts concerts, with a focus on classical music. The evening suits listeners who follow Dirty Projectors'experimental side and want to hear how its songs are rebuilt around piano, bass, drums and horns.