David Longstreth swaps guitar for piano on the band's first new music since 2025, with solo shows in Manchester, Glasgow and London confirmed for next June.
Dirty Projectors have signed to Joyful Noise Recordings and launched their own imprint, Well-Tempered Zealot, marking the occasion with the release of new single ‘Jumbotron’. The track is the band's first new music since 2025, when they released Song of the Earth, and arrives alongside the announcement of a solo tour from frontman David Longstreth, including three UK dates next June.
‘Jumbotron’ finds Longstreth taking a different approach to the band's instrumentation, swapping his usual guitar for piano. He's joined by Grizzly Bear drummer Chris Bear, upright bassist Karl McComas-Reichl, who has performed with the Jeff Parker Trio, and a six-piece saxophone and brass ensemble drawn from Los Angeles session musicians. The song explores Longstreth's experiences of parenthood, particularly the strange contrast between the enormous world as seen through a child's eyes and the smaller, more intimate world of family life.
‘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,’ Longstreth explains. ‘Life and entertainment; attention and volume; focus and detail; quality and value. Listen to the song!’
The release follows Song of the Earth, Dirty Projectors' 2025 album, and begins a new chapter for the group through their partnership with independent label Joyful Noise Recordings. The newly established Well-Tempered Zealot imprint will operate alongside the signing.
Longstreth will also head out on a solo headline tour in 2027, performing in smaller venues across North America, the UK and Europe. The run begins with an appearance at Knoxville's Big Ears Festival in April, before travelling through the United States and arriving in the UK in June. He'll perform at Manchester's Band on the Wall on 11 June, Glasgow's Òran Mór on 12 June and London's Kings Place on 14 June, followed by further European dates in Paris, Brussels, Berlin and elsewhere.
Tickets for most shows go on general sale on Thursday 12 November at 10am local time, with fan presales already underway using the password PIANO. The London show goes on general sale on Friday 13 November, with its fan presale beginning on Thursday.
Dirty Projectors: 2027 tour dates
2 April – Knoxville, TN – Big Ears Festival
15 April – Minneapolis, MN – Cedar Cultural Center
17 April – Chicago, IL – Old Town School of Folk Music
20 April – Philadelphia, PA – Ethical Society
21 April – New Haven, CT – Firehouse 12
23 April – Boston, MA – Museum of Fine Arts
24 April – Kingston, NY – Assembly
25 April – New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge
8 May – Los Angeles, CA – Sid the Cat Auditorium
14 May – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
15 May – Point Reyes, CA – Dance Palace
20 May – Portland, OR – Polaris Hall
21 May – Seattle, WA – The Triple Door
11 June – Manchester, UK – Band on the Wall
12 June – Glasgow, UK – Òran Mór
14 June – London, UK – Kings Place
15 June – Paris, France – Café de la Danse
17 June – Utrecht, Netherlands – TivoliVredenburg Hertz
18 June – Brussels, Belgium – Musée Botanique
19 June – Hamburg, Germany – Nachtasyl
20 June – Copenhagen, Denmark – Koncerthuset, Studie 2
22 June – Stockholm, Sweden – Södra Teatern
23 June – Oslo, Norway – Kulturkirken Jakob
25 June – Berlin, Germany – Lido
Otto Benson will open selected US dates.
Tickets and further information are available via the Dirty Projectors website.
