Alex Zhang Hungtai's hot property at the minute, and following on from a barnstorming mid-afternoon showing at Saturday's I'll Be Your Mirror , Dirty Beaches here unleash the scatty brood that is Casino Lisboa. Hungtai's vocal incomprehensible, so high is the reverb piled it's one of several instances lifted from the first half of a forthcoming double album, Drifters , which functions as something of a lucid continuation of breakthrough LP Badlands as its author shrieks, moans and groans over and over a mantric throb, minimalist thuds, synth freakouts and so forth. Bury your head below... [...]
It'd been nigh on twelve long months since I'd last found myself clambering up the vertiginous inclines of Alexandra Park toward Ally Pally – a timescale no sooner contemplated than it'd been calculated, for each extreme was bookended by something utterly scintillating. Each was an I'll Be Your Mirror . This time taking place toward the beginning of an altogether merrier May, Karen O and her resurgent Yeah Yeah Yeahs plastered Saturday in a fluoro hue of glee, cherry-picking the likes of Dirty Beaches & The Field & Anika from a group filed [...]
It's with a faint sense of trepidation we hike forever upward toward Alexandra Palace, not least as the sweltering trudge seemingly represents the metaphoric arrival of festival season which begins in earnest in but a few short weeks' time. It's the time of the season for early starts and later nights, lager glugged from the moment morning stumbles into afternoon as liver, lobes and inner ears quiver as one. Which painfully reminds me I've neglected to bring the old in-ears. Shite. Though Karen O & co. haven't opted for anywhere near as ruinous a line up as ATP [...]
Dirty Beaches shares "Casino Lisboa" from Drifters. Dirty Beaches, aka Alex Zhang Hungtai, is back with a new song, "Casino Lisboa". The track is taken from Drifters, one of two new albums that...
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Dirty Beaches ' work is always cinematic, the 'Badlands' LP from 2011 none more so, but it's a theme that continues right up to his forthcoming release, the double album 'Drifters/Love Is The Devil'. If 'Casino Lisboa' is a distinct Hollywood location or a specific scene, it's one of carnage, gun-wielding gangsters wrecking slot machines with bullet holes. If the songwriting is much of the time direct and in-your-face - and Alex has admitted as much in previous comments about his latest work - it reaches its peak with 'Casino Lisboa'. [...]
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It was a great show today on Photogmusic Live . I had in the studio Claudia Gutierrez of Ottawa School of Art to talk about J'Adart taking place on May 9th at Karsh-Masson Gallery (136 St. Patrick Street) The interview is in the 30 minute mark. Have a listen to the show . Photogmusic LIVE - May 6, 2013 by Photogmusic on Mixcloud [...]
Dirty Beaches has a new double LP coming our way on May 21 through Zoo Music and with that comes the release of an eerie, thumping lo-fi track called "Casino Lisboa" that has the signature Dirty Beaches feelings of abandonment and lonesomeness. The song is pulsing and organ-driven and it feels like it may have been dipped in layers of deep purple ooze. It's more retro than it is modern but it manages to still feel fresh due to its masterful craftmanship. The double LP, Drifters/Lov...
Dirty Beaches has a new double LP coming our way on May 21 through Zoo Music and with that comes the release of an eerie, thumping lo-fi track called "Casino Lisboa" that has the signature Dirty Beaches feelings of abandonment and lonesomeness. The song is pulsing and organ-driven and it feels like it may have been dipped in layers of deep purple ooze. It's more retro than it is modern but it manages to still feel fresh due to its masterful craftmanship. The double LP, Drifters/Lov...
Drifters/LoveIs The Devil due out 5/21 om Zoo Music.
It’s Friday, which means we are contemplating the weekend ahead and also, as ever, rounding up the best songs we’ve heard this week. This week we continued our burgeoning bromance with Majical Cloudz, reveled in the Suicide-y sounds of the new Dirty Beaches, started crossing fingers that the latest Tricky new dawn won't prove to be a false one, luxuriated in beautiful ambient music from Mark McGuire and Eluvium, done questionable drugs with Pet Shop Boys... and plenty more! You can do all these things, too, for absolutely no money by clicking through, so we suggest you get to it [...]
Alex Zhang Hungtai’s Dirty Beaches will release Drifters/Love Is The Devil later this month and "Casino Lisboa" is his third offering from the LP. What starts as almost drone's version of doo wop becomes a backbone for demented piano keys and fucked up carnival ephemera. Hungtai is a collagist, if ever there was one. Check it out below. Read More...
Alex Zhang Hungtai’s Dirty Beaches will release Drifters/Love Is The Devil later this month and "Casino Lisboa" is his third offering from the LP. What starts as almost drone's version of doo wop becomes a backbone for demented piano keys and fucked up carnival ephemera. Hungtai is a collagist, if ever there was one. Check it out below. Read More... [...]
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Dirty Beaches tiene en camino este dramático, nuevo y doloroso álbum doble titulado "Drifters/Love Is The Devil", el cual estará apareciendo de manera oficial el 21 de Mayo con Zoo Music, y si no estaban enterados sobre este mistico acontecimiento, pues déjenme decirles que hasta el momento ya hemos podido escuchar tres adelantos bastante delicados de este material, mismo que además está respaldado de un pequeño EP instrumental en su edición deluxe que solo estará disponible en Japon, pero que seguramente alguien se estará encargando de colgarlo en la red para que podamos disfrutar de él. Mientras tanto, hace [...]
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by Andrew Sacher Dirty Beaches at LPR in 2012 ( more by Fred Pessaro ) Dirty Beaches (aka Alex Zhang Hungtai) is set to release his new double album, Drifters/Love Is The Devil , on May 21 via Zoo Music. The record evokes acid western imagery through lo-fi-as-an-art recording techniques, and the whole thing is really desolate sounding. You can stream a couple of its tracks below. He's also releasing a Japan-only [...]
"We can't understand German, so we got yelled at by some bus driver telling us we were in the wrong place. He was nice enough to turn around, otherwise it would've been kinda awkward having to lug our equipment around. 'OK, yeah! Danke! Danke Schoen! Bye-bye!' Pfft." That's the jovial reasoning behind this afternoon's scheduled Plausch with Alex Zhang Hungtai of Dirty Beaches taking place that bit belatedly. He's currently, well, not exactly living in Berlin but he's been there since December. "I don't know how long we're gonna be here, but I guess [...]
All Tomorrow's Parties has announced plans to discontinue its annual installment of holiday festivals with one final event to take place in Camber Sands, UK later this year. The aptly titled End of An Era festival spans two consecutive weekends (Nov. 22th-24 and Nov. 29th-Dec. 1st), each featuring a different lineup. Primavera Sound curates weekend one, and they've recruited Television to top the bill. The New York alt-rock icons have played sporadically together over the last decade, with a lineup featuring founding members Tom Verlaine and Billy Ficca, Fred Smith, and Jimmy Ripp. [...]
Me manda mi hermano D. por e-mail un enlace a una canción y (el tío me conoce bien, claro) ¡canastos! el tema me deja noqueado: se trata de " Lord Knows Best ", una pista del canadiense de origen taiwanés Alex Zhang Hungtai, que escudado en el más comercial alias de Dirty Beaches firmó en 2011 un discazo llamado " Badlands ". Lo primero que llama la atención es el evidente poso cinematográfico del álbum: la música creada por el de Montreal está intrínsecamente asociada a la estética noir que reformularon gente como Lynch [...]
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