Dave Longstreth, the precocious 20-year old behind THE DIRTY PROJECTORS, has a voice that bleeds with intensity and energy.

Longstreth uses the standard rock palette - guitars, drums, keyboards, percussion and vocal harmonies - but he finds new and undiscovered colors in it, and the images he paints are slyly radical, relying on the truest and simplest instrument: his voice.

THE DIRTY PROJECTOR'S debut album, "The Glad Fact", dwells in the sorts of emotional ambiguities and contradictions that have always tortured the sensitive ones.

The music is sophisticated and heartfelt, tender and aggresive, pleasing and miserly in its refusal to please.

LONGSTRETH's voice is unmistakeable and original and strong. His music is strange and new and beautiful.

A fresh voice like this comes only rarely, especially in today's increasingly beaurocratized indie world, so remember: music like THE DIRTY PROJECTORS is why experimental independent pop music exists.