It’s clear that this melancholia in the Dirty Beaches armoury has forever stemmed from a genuine place. Brutally honest and refreshingly rousing, Hungtai’s early days singing vocals in a metal band, his early morning hours spent as a video clerk in a porn store working the graveyard shift from midnight until 9am, his upbringing in Taiwan and adoration for auteurs David Lynch and the aforementioned Wong Kar-wai have all aided in sculpting the performer’s symphony. Read the full piece here.
Nick Argyriou 
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