Despite being AARP eligible, David Byrne continues to stay cooler than the proverbial polar bear’s toe nails (a simile only usable for the next decade thanks to global warming), teaming with Brooklyn’s finest, Dirty Projectors, to record a track for Dark Was the Night, a compilation raising money for HIV/Aids charity, Red Hot Organization. Not to be confused with the equally worthwhile Red Hot Entertainment.
As for “Knotty Pine,” it’s as good as you’d expect: Byrne’s rubberband voice blending seamlessly with Dave Longstreth’s knuckleball wail. Surprisingly smooth stuff for a title that tangled.
Download:
MP3: Dirty Projectors-”Knotty Pine”
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Passion of the Weiss » Blog Archive » SXSW ‘09, Day 2: On Applying for Secret Canadian Citizenship, The Tidal Wave of Tastemakers, and Dirty Projections says:
March 20, 2009 at 11:48 am (UTC -7)
[...] curator’s logical pairings of like-minded groups–none more so than the teaming up of Dirty Projectors with David Byrne. A few years ago, the blogosphere was rife with comparisons between Clap Your Hands [...]