Rising up from the waves and primordial mist, Dirty Three emerge once again with the reverie of new single ‘Love Changes Everything II’, arriving ashore ahead of their first album in over a decade Love Changes Everything – released physically on Friday, 14th June and digitally on Friday, 28th June. This news follows that of a just-announced third Melbourne date to their ever-growing Australian tour this June.
‘Love Changes Everything II’ is Dirty Three at midday: glancing pensively back at the waters of morning and forward past the sands to the shades of evening. Warren mans the keyboards, Jim turns round and round the kit, looking for a spot to sit in, and Mick provides gentle loops of five-string filigree, ringing the pillars of piano and synth as they solemnly rise toward the sky, away from the percussive clatter of men, pointing toward the immortal…
Listen here: Dirty Three – ‘Love Changes Everything II’
The new masterpiece trails first single ‘Love Changes Everything I’ that washed up last month with a music video by Anna White. A six-handed salute to the rough ‘n tumble indie world from which the Dirty Three spawned, ‘Love Changes Everything I’ opens the new record in a furious storm: the sun glints off the razor edges of Warren Ellis’ viola, riding above the din of Mick Turner’s guitar and Jim White’s drums as they raucously evolve from fish to foul.
The original fury of their drums/guitar/violin-or-viola power trio remains undiminished by the years, cutting three unique paths through the wild into sudden convergence; elsewhere on Love Changes Everything, a wariness and patience allow them to get caught up in loops, become ambient, transcend, and then fight their way back in.
Warren Ellis reiterates “Recorded in 5 days. Mixed in a year. Nothing has changed. Older and meaner, sadder and totally dangerous. Dirty Three are Thirty Two years old. Come blow out the candles and help us stick a knife in the cake.”
Listen here: Dirty Three – ‘Love Changes Everything I’
Praise for Dirty Three
“Every time I see the Dirty Three, they make me cry.” – Cat Power
“I remember when I first heard Dirty Three, they were like nothing else around; an instrumental band with a violinist who played like Hendrix, and epic songs that tore at the very fibre of your being.” – Zan Rowe
“Their songs, you know, maybe saved someone’s life. They’re one of the world’s greatest living bands without a shadow of a doubt … it speaks straight to your heart.” – Jen Cloher
“It’s impossible to find flaw with the performance, though its x factor is something collectively felt. A kind of accruing, song by fiery song, of irrefutable proof as to how truly great this band is.” – The Guardian
The Dirty Three (Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and Jim White) formed in Melbourne in 1992, to play with guitar, drums and violin or viola; within a couple years, they’d broken out of Australia and gone worldwide. Over the next ten years, they toured over and over the planet, cut seven albums out along the way, and de-coupled themselves to piece together many other fruitful collaborations with esteemed talents (Nick Cave, Cat Power, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, PJ Harvey, Nina Nastasia). Over the past 20 years, they’ve gotten together a few times to renew vows, rev the engines, play some shows, or make an album. Like now, with Love Changes Everything, a record bubbling up with the clarity of just-struck spring water — a translucence that gives way to muddy gushes of distortion, dirty guitar, smears of violin, and drums at times pounded upon beyond the microphones’ ability to receive.
These lot were born to be as weathered as they are today. Time doesn’t matter. They make their gathered wisdom of the ages sing like something new every time. It renews. And Love Changes Everything.
Dirty Three, ahoy!
Stream / Download ‘Love Changes Everything II’: https://dirtythree.lnk.
Dirty Three – Love Changes Everything
1. Love Changes Everything I
2. Love Changes Everything II
3. Love Changes Everything III
4. Love Changes Everything IV
5. Love Changes Everything V
6. Love Changes Everything VI
Dirty Three – Loves Changes Everything
is out 14th June via
Anchor & Hope / Remote Control Records.
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