Badlands

Description

Badlands is the debut vinyl album from Dirty Beaches, a one-man project out of Montreal via Hawaii, China, Taiwan and a bunch of other disparate locales. Part cassette culture Elvis, part Alan Vega alienator, this guys doing for rockabilly what Ariel Pink did for funk-pop nostalgia. Badlands is about a man who is possessed by the road. My mother used to say to me, You walk at night often enough, sooner or later youll run into a ghost. I think its very true, as the devil comes in all forms. Just here to fuck your shit up. Side A is all bangers, with songs about leaving, being chased on the road and driving a burning car into oblivion. Side B is ballads and dirges laced with murder and lament. -Alex Zhang Hungtai