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Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors
Bitte Orca is an album by Dirty Projectors, released in 2009. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Stillness Is The Move”, on 5 lists with a best position of #4.
Bitte Orca, the fifth studio album from Dirty Projectors, came out on Domino on June 9, 2009, and it's the moment David Longstreth's brainy outfit started to sound like a real, breathing band. Longstreth produced it, but he wrote with the whole group in mind this time, a lineup that included Amber Coffman, Haley Dekle, Nat Baldwin, Brian McOmber and Angel Deradoorian, whose only studio album as a full-time member this is.
The title is half German, half sea mammal: Longstreth just liked the sound of "bitte", the word for please, next to "orca". He's said the music felt like it was about colors and how they interact, which fits the way guitars zig, voices zag and the songs keep changing shape. "Stillness Is the Move" is the slinky curveball. It reached No. 65 on the Billboard 200, a real feat for art-pop this knotty, and "Temecula Sunrise" and "Cannibal Resource" resurfaced later on an EP.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Bitte Orca on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stillness Is The Move | 5 | #4 | – | 2009–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.