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Dirty Projectors, Stillness is the Move

crumbler: “Stillness is the Move” sounded cloying to me until someone suggested it was actually an R&B song, the sort of thing Beyonce might sing if she went to Yale with DPs frontman Dave Longstreth. Like so much modern R&B, it’s built around a repeating, chiming figure that the vocal mostly ignores. Keep an open mind — the same kind of open mind you needed to love “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It),” which was built on what sounded like a Frogger sample — and you may fall hard for it.

Nice observation. Now where’s my Diplo remix? Seriously, though, 2009’s going to be remembered as a great year for music, and this is going to be one of the highlights. It’s also going to be known as the year the indie rock ladies struck back, and Angel Deradoorian definitely does that here. She just kills it.