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The Dismemberment Plan: Tiny Desk Concert

The Dismemberment Plan performs a Tiny Desk concert in October 2013. Meredith Rizzo/Meredith Rizzo/NPR hide caption

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The Dismemberment Plan: Tiny Desk Concert

The recently reunited band's funky, fleshed-out sound wouldn't seem to lend itself to vastly stripped-down arrangements. But The Dismemberment Plan exudes playfulness and wry charm throughout these three songs from this year's Uncanney Valley.

The Dismemberment Plan: Tiny Desk Concert

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The Dismemberment Plan Returns, To Its Own Surprise

The Dismemberment Plan's new album, Uncanney Valley, is out Oct. 15. Shervin Lainez/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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The Dismemberment Plan Returns, To Its Own Surprise

A decade after breaking up, the renowned Washington, D.C. indie rockers have a new generation of fans — and a new album at the ready.

The Dismemberment Plan Returns, To Its Own Surprise

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First Listen: The Dismemberment Plan, 'Uncanney Valley'

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First Listen: The Dismemberment Plan, 'Uncanney Valley'

On Uncanney Valley, its first album since 2001, The Dismemberment Plan sounds loose and liberated — like a band with its legacy secured, happy just to be there. It's a fitting way for the hard-to-define, intermittently funky D.C. rock group to make a comeback.

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The Dismemberment Plan: Back In Business

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The Dismemberment Plan: Back In Business

The indie-rock band spent much of the '90s in vans before breaking up in 2003. Now, the much-beloved Dismemberment Plan has reunited with a newly reissued Emergency & I on vinyl and a better sense of its own achievements.

The Dismemberment Plan: Back In Business

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