Songs for Children presents DIRTY BEACHES

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♥♥♥ We are delighted to present lo-fi rockabilly no -waver DIRTY BEACHES live in Hong Kong! ♥♥♥

Alex Zhang Hungtai aka Dirty Beaches, is a Taiwanese-born Canadian nomadic indie hipster currently based in Berlin.
The first album Badlands (inspired by films such as Wild at Heart and Blue Velvet) was released in March 2011 to huge critical acclaim - nominated for the 2011 Polaris Music Prize and received Best New Music on Pitchfork 8.2.
Dirty Beaches began as a one man band, sometimes employing sampling, inspired by Zhang's longtime love of hip hop. Films are one of Zhang's influences, particularly those by Hong Kong film director Wong Kar-wai.

Like Bo Diddley or minimalist synth provocateurs Suicide, Dirty Beaches’ compositions are not so much stripped down as refined to their essence. Drum loops entrance, Hungtai’s croon enchants, and the yearning melodies draped overtop belie as much a sense of haunting mystery as they do romanticism and wry humor.

Press for Dirtry Beaches:

"a refreshing take on the well-worn tropes of lo-fi-- raunchy, old-fashioned, and pompadoured, there's nothing else that sounds like this right now."
Pitchfork 8.2


“It veers between doo-wop balladry and garage rumble, with the occasional interfering guitar drone, like an incursion into this forgotten past from a future Sonic Youth.”
The Guardian

“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