Look at what the Blue Wave washed up!

Dirty Projectors have signed to Joyful Noise Recordings and have released new single "Jumbotron" on their new imprint, Well Tempered Zealot.

Listen below:

In yet another massive win for millennial optimism, their new single deploys screens as a rosy metaphor for childlike wonder and parenthood – the way people actually used devices when the band released their 2009 breakout, Bitte Orca. When so many songs regard phones and technology as the preeminent conduit for misinformation and surveillance, the trio blissfully imagines a "sweet, long life" broadcast "up on the jumbotron."

Frontman David Longstreth explains:

"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. Life and entertainment; attention and volume; focus and detail; quality and value. Listen to the song!"

Most notably for the band, there's no guitar, and the members have swapped their usual instruments. Longstreth on the piano (and voice), Grizzly Bear's Chris Bear on drums, and Karl McComas-Reichl (Jeff Parker Trio) on upright bass, all joining a sextet of Los Angeles-based sax and brass session players.

Longstreth will also embark on a solo tour early next year, beginning at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, TN and stopping at intimate venues throughout the East and West coasts before a string of dates in the UK and Europe.

Tickets go on sale Thursday at 10 am local time, except for Chicago (on sale Friday), London (on sale Friday, pre-sale Thursday), and Boston (on sale December 1). Fan pre-sale starts immediately with the password "PIANO." Check the dates below:

04/02 Knoxville, TN @ Big Ears Festival
04/15 Minneapolis, MN @ Cedar Cultural Center *
04/17 Chicago, IL @ Old Town School of Folk Music *
04/20 Philadelphia, PA @ Ethical Society *
04/21 New Haven, CT @ Firehouse 12
04/23 Boston, MA @ Museum of Fine Arts *
04/24 Kingston, NY @ Assembly *
04/25 New York, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge *
05/08 Los Angeles, CA @ Sid the Cat Auditorium
05/14 San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
05/15 Point Reyes, CA @ Dance Palace
05/20 Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
05/21 Seattle, WA @ The Triple Door
06/11 Manchester, UK @ Band On The Wall
06/12 Glasgow, UK @ Oran Mor
06/14 London, UK @ Kings Place
06/15 Paris, FR @ Café de la Danse
06/17 Utrecht, NL @ TivoliVredenburg Hertz
06/18 Brussels, BE @ Musée Botanique
06/19 Hamburg, DE @ Nachtasyl
06/20 Copenhagen, DK @ The Koncerthuset - Studie 2
06/22 Stockholm, SE @ Södra Teatern
06/23 Oslo, NO @ Kulturkirken Jakob
06/25 Berlin, DE @ Lido

* with Otto Benson