I can’t say I’m the hugest fan of the sample mp3, but I’m quite taken with the concept: the upcoming Dirty Projectors record is called Rise Above. And it’s a re-imagining of the seminal Black Flag album Damaged. But *NOT* a cover album. From the press release:

“Following the 2006 EP New Attitude, [Projectors’ frontman Chris] Longstreth went to help his parents move out of the house he grew up in. Among his youthful artifacts was the cassette case from the Black Flag album Damaged. This brought back all sorts of memories - Black Flag was one of Longstreth’s first loves– but the tape itself was missing. So, like the character in the Jorge Luis Borges story “Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote” who sets out to recreate Don Quixote line by line from memory, Longstreth went to the nearest Guitar Center, purchased the cheapest cassette four-track he could find, and embarked on recasting Damaged from memory, without re-listening to a single note or reading any lyrics. The ten songs that make up Rise Above (titled after one of the tracks on Damaged) stem from these four-track demos, recorded at his parents house on an acoustic guitar.”

Tracklist:

1. What I See
2. No More (mp3)
3. Depression
4. Six Pack
5. Thirsty and Miserable
6. Police Story
7. Gimme Gimme Gimme
8. Spray Paint (The Walls)
9. Room 13
10. Rise Above

(And certainly a good album cover on this one, comparatively.)