Dirty Beaches, Drifters / Love is the Devil
2013 | Label: Zoo Music / Revolver
Sometime in the winter of 2012, while traveling between Berlin and his hometown of Montreal, Alex Zhang Hungtai recorded Drifters and Love is the Devil under his Dirty Beaches moniker. This double-LP, Hungtai’s follow up to 2011′s Badlands, is an emotional exorcism and an intensely personal foray into loneliness and isolation. Badlands, which coated rockabilly-affectation in a lo-fi aesthetic, aspired to sound like lost music falling between the sound waves of a shifting AM dial, but the double album Drifters/Love Is the Devil patiently redefines how a Dirty Beaches album… more »






