Date
Saturday 16 February 2013 at 9:00pm
Location
Moon Night
Seoul,
Korea, Republic of
Link
Description
DIRTY BEACHES
“Raunchy, old-fashioned, and pompadoured, there’s nothing else that sounds like this right now” – Pitchfork, 8.2 review for Badlands
“…Hungtai makes a rough, blasted-out form of rockabilly, one coated with the grime of a half century of greaser movies and bad memories.” –Stereogum, Best New Bands of 2011
“Dirty Beaches recalls both the Jesus and Mary Chain’s fabulous feedback experiments and crooner Chris Isaak.” – Spinner Magazine
Polaris Prize nominated for album Badlands
Lo-fi’s favorite nomad, Dirty Beaches, is on the road again—and this time, he’s coming to Korea! Alex Hungtai, the 32 year-old Taiwanese-Canadian behind Dirty Beaches, took the blogosphere by storm with his first full-length release Badlands in 2011. Dirty Beaches gets to the heart—or rather, the dark, grimy underbelly—of themes like longing and loneliness. Hungtai’s voice sounds like he’s channeling the ghost of a 1950’s rockabilly. Dirty Beaches’ decaying, reverb-haunted beauty evokes the celluloid hallucinations of films by David Lynch, Wong Kar-Wai, and Terrence Mallick. The Guardian UK applauds Dirty Beaches for “locat the era’s heart of darkness.” For proof, listen to atmospherics on “Speedway King,” the first track on Badlands, which he recorded in a slaughterhouse using 1950s equipment. If My Bloody Valentine and Elvis met in a back alley to share a handle of whisky, Dirty Beaches would have been their illegitimate love child. Follow Dirty Beaches, and he will take you to places you wish you had the guts to explore alone.
FEB 15- Busan, Almost Famous
FEB 16- Seoul
http://supercolorsuper.com/2012/11/19/dirty-beaches/
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