Rolling Stone Australia have just announced The 50 Best New Zealand Albums of 2025. We’re delighted to let you know that Tamaki Makaura punk band Dick Move have taken out the number 2 slot!!
Congratulations to the Dick Move team! A well deserved accolade for a cracking album.
Here’s what Rolling Stone had to say….
Dick Move make pure punk music, no post or art or proto prefixes in sight.
The Auckland band have never sounded as angry or righteous as they do on new album Dream, Believe, Achieve — quite right, too, considering the current state of New Zealand government.
In a blistering sub-30 minutes, Dick Move, led from the front by the impassioned Lucy Suttor, take on toxic men, capitalist politics, and patriarchal systems with lacerating honesty.
Proper punks have always been defined by a fearless determination to speak truth to power, and Dick Move’s five members — Suttor alongside Lucy Macrae, Hariet Ellis, Justin Rendell, and Luke Boyes — take pride in their anti-authoritarianism on their latest record.
But don’t let the heavy subject matter fool you: as Suttor recently told us, Dream, Believe, Achieve is a hopeful album, the work of musicians and people who believe in the power of community to overcome systematic injustices. Up the nurses, up Dick Move!
Catch Dick Move live tonight or tomorrow…
It’s not too late to see Dick Move live this weekend as they wrap up the Dream, Believe, Achieve album release tour!
DREAM, BELIEVE, ACHIEVE AOTEAROA ALBUM RELEASE TOUR
Friday 5 Dec – Auckland – Western Springs Garden Community Hall (All Ages)
Saturday 6 Dec – Whangārei – Beer and Loathing
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Dream, Believe, Achieve is out digitally, on vinyl and CD via 1:12 Records and Flying Nun Records.
About Dick Move: Energised by a strong community fighting for important social change and a need to turn late night political chat into action, Dick Move was formed in the depths of Karangahape Road’s Whammy Bar, and has become an essential party-punk voice for working people — and for all those that are fired up to make change in the world.
Dick Move spit out short sharp hot takes that call to the increasingly messed up world around them. Notorious already for their pumping live shows, Dick Move’s catalogue of blink-and-you’ll-miss-it punk anthems are cutting, confronting, empowering and dripping with brash cheekiness and political angst. Wet (2023) is the band’s second studio release and makes a welcome addition to Dick Move’s catalogue. Wet follows on from their 2020 debut Chop!. The 13 tracks on Wet were lovingly produced, recorded and mixed by Peter Ruddell (Wax Chattels, Sulfate) at The Beths’ studio on Karangahape Road, and mastered by Wellington legend James Goldsmith.
Having supported Foo Fighters and The Breeders on their 2024 New Zealand tour, as well as Aussie stalwarts Amyl & The Sniffers, Cosmic Psychos and The Chats, Dick Move have recently been taking on international touring themselves; a 22-date European in 2024, with another in September 2025, plus multiple visits to neighbouring Australia. Maintaining momentum as socialist-party punk agitators is a challenge that the band face head on — and Dick Move will keep doing what they do best; shouting across oceans about things that matter, in a thick kiwi accent.
Dick Move
Dream, Believe, Achieve
Tracklisting
1. Fuck It
2. Try Hard
3. Run For Your Money
4. Shut Your Mouth
5. Bludger
6. Scared Old Men
7. Nurses
8. Cracks
9. Up The Bus
10. Good Time Girl
11. Karanga-a-Hape
12. Suits
13. Handful
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