-Frequencies review -
DIRTY BEACHES
Badlands
kill zoo music
2011
Taiwan, Toronto, Montreal, and Honolulu are some places that Alex Zhang Hungtai calls home. The life journey of a man possessed by the charm of the road, the one that left a distinctive mark on the cultural narrative of the 50 '. Dirty Beaches, the one-man project of Alex, captures the style and substance in touch with an album of beautiful road I would say threatening, buried under layers of history as much as his songs are in distortion and reverb. Badlands is an album that, in due proportion, follows the unique power of narrative in Nebraska a synthetic version of 27 minutes built on nostalgia, imagination, and above all a great songwriting that finds lodging in the perfect lo-fi production. If I had to amplify strong in my apartment, my neighbors would probably suspect that he pulled out a old-fashioned phonograph and has started playing rockabilly pieces of old vinyl. And there are alternative interpretations, of course, but the manipulation of sound is more convincing than ever. Suicide as the first or the old Ariel Pink, Badlands has the merit and strength to play with an impressive instrumental arsenal rather limited.
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