Drifters/Love Is The Devil (studio album) by Dirty Beaches

From JoaoMoreira 06/19/2019 22:56

This guy could have used lo fi aesthetics in a smarter way instead of this extreme statement.
There's some good music with peculiar atmospheres.
But this all sounds like an SM58 pointing towards an average live sound monitor.And it just flattens the whole record.
The compositions deserved a better musician to execute them.

Best Tracks: Elli, I Dream In Neon, Love Is The Devil, Au Revoir Mon Visage

From RockyRaccoon 07/09/2013 20:20

Experimental music can be incredibly interesting to listen to. Recorded music has been changing so much over such a long period of time that hearing someone explore new areas of music, new sounds and new structures, can be really intriguing, and sometimes that music can be groundbreaking, or at the very least, just enjoyable music. However, just like with any experiment, sometimes it just doesn’t work too well. In this case, with Dirty Beaches, the moniker of electronic musician Alex Hungtai, it’s a miss.

This album is a double album, which is certainly ambitious of Hungtai. The first half, “Drifters", is interesting, consisting mostly of lo-fi-sounding recordings of electronic tracks and vocals that sound like they’re being sung through a filter. There’s some good moments there too, “ELLI" is a cool piece, and the music behind “I Dream In Neon" is kind of cool too. Other than that, the music is just ok. The second half of the album, “Love Is The Devil", is mostly uninteresting. It’s all instrumental guitar and electronic music, with a relatively lo-fi recording to it. Is this album intriguing? Sure, it has that going for it. But unfortunately, the experiment of this album, for me, didn’t work.