Albums of 2009, No 4: Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca

The aim was to engage with contemporary black dance music. The result? Solange Knowles became a big fan!Who else made the top albums of 2009?It has been a great year for intelligent, experimental American pop: Animal Collective, Grizzly Bear and Dirty Projectors all released breakthrough albums that brought the bands to wider attention. But it was more a case of the bands accommodating their audiences than vice versa – in all three instances this was their poppiest, most accessible music ...

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