The Dirty Projectors have announced their collaboration with Joyful Noise Recordings and are launching their own label, Well-Tempered Zealot, with the single “Jumbotron”. The song is the band’s first new release since early 2025 and surprises listeners with an unusual sound.
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Instead of guitars, the focus is on David Longstreth’s piano playing, Chris Bear (Grizzly Bear) on drums, Karl McComas-Reichl (Jeff Parker Trio) on double bass, and a six-piece brass ensemble from Los Angeles.
Lyrically, ‘Jumbotron’ plays with the image of magnification, thereby also echoing the band’s name. Longstreth explores two perspectives on the world: the overwhelming scale with which children perceive their surroundings, and the feelings of new parents, for whom life feels both infinitely small and infinitely vast.
Dates
June 2027
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