Dirty Projectors sign to Joyful Noise and drop 'Jumbotron'

Dirty Projectors released a new song, 'Jumbotron', and signed to the Indiana label Joyful Noise. The band also launched its own imprint, Well-Tempered Zealot. 'Jumbotron' is out now on the two labels.

David Longstreth, who leads the project, framed the single around scale: '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.' It is the first Dirty Projectors release since the five EPs that followed Lamp Lit Prose, the band's last full-length, in 2018.

Longstreth takes the band on a solo tour in 2027, with North America dates through April and May, then the UK and Europe through June. London, Glasgow and Manchester are on the run, along with cities on the continent. Full dates are not yet announced.