3. Dirty Beaches
lo-fi/rock'n'roll/ballad
The music and life of
Dirty Beaches, or
Alex Zhang Hungtai, is like a collage of old photographs. Born in
Taiwan, but never in one place long enough to call anywhere home, though currently kind of residing in
Canada, hes said himself home and his memories of it are like a collage of fractured landscapes, somehow always out of place. So too has he been musically, having tried being in a metal band he was thrown out for trying to sing like
David Bowie.
I personally see absolutely no issue at all with that. Deciding to teach himself to play and do it for himself, the result is like the lost photo album of a stranger; out of time and out of place. Channelling the spirit of 1950s Americana by way of the first strains of rocknroll and girl groups, sometimes brought to life by the altogether more modern sampling techniques of hip hop, he filters it through an incredibly raw lo-fi delivery and technique. http://youtu.be/c1npX5-CP0A
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