The term “collective” has been thrown about with abandon to describe bands of various stripes with more than five members. The Brooklyn sextet Dirty Projectors has been described as such, but really they’re more of a harmonic cavalcade that just happens to have about 17 past members (including luminaries like Vampire Weekend‘s Ezra Koenig).
In their track “Gun Has No Trigger,” they flirt with melodies appropriate for a mid-70s James Bond film while also clenching tightly to harmony and melody.
