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Old 08-16-2011, 12:08 AM   #1
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SPOTLIGHT ON: Dirty Beaches
Been all over this album all year, but it's kind of falling a bit "under the radar." Lately, I've been listening to it again a lot (maybe because I finally finished watching Twin Peaks) and figured it's worthy of a SPOTLIGHT ON



Really dark and druggy rockabilly. The soundtrack to a movie about a nightmare beach party directed by David Lynch. Deep baritone crooning over shredding surf guitars with ambient haze. Those are three different sentences that sum this release up pretty well.

Nobody’s making any music out there that sounds anything like this. It’s just so friggin dark and scary sounding, right from the opener Speedway King. It’s scary in the same way that a Kenneth Anger film is scary. It’s scary in the way that Boards of Canada can sound scary… lucid, nightmarish, barely conscious.






I’ve read a lot of comparisons to Roy Orbison and Joy Division. I guess those are fairly obvious influences, along with Dick Dale. Not to sound like a cookie-cutter reviewer, but really stick each of them in a tube of paint and get yr spin art out and the painting that comes out would sound like this album. True Blue is probably my choice track, or the doomed instrumental cymbal smashing of Black Nylon. The closer, Hotel, reminds me of the minimalist “music” from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.


This album puts the same spin David Lynch has on post World War II 1950s idealism. It’s about the dark side of it all. It’s Blue Velvet in album form.


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Old 08-23-2011, 11:05 PM   #2
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