Their fifth release is a big rock album by design. Its idiosyncratic and sincere take on popular music is reminiscent of David Byrne with whom Dirty Projectors collaborated on the sensational "Knotty Pine" for the 2009 4AD compilation "Dark Was The Night".

In many ways, group leader David Longstreth could be seen as this generation's answer to Byrne, a distinctive torchbearer of labyrinthine song arrangements that go down easy. High praise... but on the money.

The album is complex and brave in it's influences. The real pay off is that Bitte Orca is arguable the best pop record of the year, it's very very exciting.

1. Cannibal Resource
2. Temecula Sunrise
3. The Bride
4. Stillness is the Move
5. Two Doves
6. Useful Chamber
7. No Intention
8. Remade Horizon
9. Fluorescent Half Dome