Dirty Projectors (solo)

Dirty Projectors today announced they’ve signed to Joyful Noise Recordings and are launching their own new imprint, Well-Tempered Zealot, with single “Jumbotron”–their first new music since early 2025. Subverting expectations, there’s no guitar: David Longstreth here plays the piano, alongside Chris Bear (Grizzly Bear) on drums, Karl McComas-Reichl (Jeff Parker Trio) on upright bass, and a sextet of Los Angeles’ finest sax and brass session players. “Jumbotron” gives us a lens metaphor worthy of the band name, with Longstreth singing about two kinds of magnification: the enormity of the world experienced through a child’s eyes, and the paradox of new parenthood when life feels so small and so huge at the same time. “I was thinking about the big screen and the small screen. The big tent and the kind of tent you can make in the living room with a couple couch cushions and a blanket or two. Life and entertainment; attention and volume; focus and detail; quality and value. Listen to the song!,” says Longstreth.