Dirty Three

great

If you enjoy rowdy cowboy style music try this band from down under.

Great record.Sweeping, intense, emotional & occasionally violent instrumental music brought forth by violin/guitar & drums. "Dirty Equation" is my equal favourite ending to any album ever (along with "Wall" by Shoji Hano & Munehiro Narita's Kyoaku No Intention).Live they are pretty good, I recall seeing them on their Ocean Songs tour & the definite highlight of the night was an incendiary merging of Indian Love Song/Dirty Equation as the sets closer.Anyway I do think critic's have blinkers when it comes to this band as I find a lot of their later output meandering. I am definitely more attracted to their more intense moments. In fact I'd love for them to go in & make a full on apocalyptic sounding record. More guitar please.

I remember buying this in 1994, when the Dirty Three were an up and coming Melbourne band. But, even before picking up a Slint LP a couple of years later, you could tell this was something different, a landmark not just within the smoke filled pubs within which they would feverishly play. Their whirling dervish live routine excited you like nothing else of the Melbourne scene: Warren Ellis foaming at the mouth as spun around in circles, lost in his own trance as he fiddled amidst a burning Rome. This LP best captures the exhiliration of these concerts, a record at once beautiful and exciting. Not until Godspeed's 'Slow Riot' has any other band come close to the chaotic brilliance of 'The Dirty Equation': a thick, harsh squall that weaves in and out of your head, a six minute rush you'll want to listen to again and again. Treated by an increasingly conservative Australian youth radio as little more than a curiosity it is sad that they eventually had to move overseas to find true appreciation: but, hey, listen to this and you know they deserve it all.

yes

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S'il est un post rock tout à fait original, c'est bien celui de ce trio australien . Cet album est superbe avec des titres tous bons mis à part l'"improvisé " Everything fucked" en retrait. Bien sûr il y a le violon de Warren Ellis, mais l'ensemble dégage une force poétique. C'est drôle, mais à un insrtant de l'écoute, je me suis mis à penser à Paul Motian, batteur mythique de jazz, qui aurait pu jouer ce genre de composition où le batteur peut improviser. Bon album . 14,8 / 20

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