The names of Dirty on Purpose and Au Revoire Simone take us back to the very early Deli years – we covered both bands in print and online somewhere around 2005. ARS also played a rather legendary (at least for us) Deli show at Pete’s Candy Store (capacity… 30 people maybe?) before they started filling up Japanese arenas. But why are we saying this – you ask? Because we just learned that Doug Marvin from Dirty Projector and Annie Hart from Au Revoir Simone not only are married, but they also have a new musical project called Pursesnatchers. This is actually Doug’s home recording project which ended up expanding into a 4 members band. Pursesnatchers have their debut album "A Pattern Language" scheduled to be released in July. Faithful to Dirty on Purpose’s aesthetics, this free single offers some catchy and upbeat drone-pop, although the sound and style are quite different from Doug’s old band – in a word, more concise.
Mp3: Pursesnatchers – Baseball on the Radio
P.S. But wasn’t Annie also involved with DOP at some point?