Even voorstellen - Dirty Projectors - Announce signing to Joyful Noise Recordings and launch new imprint ‘Well Tempered Zealot’

Share new single “Jumbotron” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSwf7IaQPCc

LIVE 18/06/27 – Brussels, BE – Musée Botanique

Dirty Projectors have  announced their signing to Joyful Noise Recordings and the launch of their own new imprint, Well-Tempered Zealot, accompanied by 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.

Dirty Projector’s David Longstreth also announces a solo headlining spring tour, where he’ll play intimate venues in America, Europe and the UK, including shows in Manchester, Glasgow and London at Kings Place on 14 June.