Dirty Beaches
The project of Alex Zhang Hungtai, Dirty Beaches' spanned low-slung, lo-fi, post-rockabilly to ambient instrumentals. Born in Taiwan, Hungtai moved to Canada at an early age. Starting in 2005, he released a slew of albums, EPs, and cassettes on labels such as Night People and Fixture Records. Hungtai's music is equally familiar-sounding and surreal, mixing a croon worthy of Elvis or Roy Orbison with Suicide-like drum machines and a fondness for found sounds and hypnotic loops. He moved to Zoo Records for his official debut album, Badlands, which was released in early 2011. Hungtai remained busy, issuing singles on Suicide Squeeze and a split with Xiu Xiu in 2011 and 2012. He released the Water Park soundtrack on A Records in March 2013 and the double album Drifters/Love Is the Devil that May. In 2014, Hungtai announced that his album Stateless would be his last under the Dirty Beaches name. Featuring viola courtesy of Italian composer Vittorio Demarin and mixing by Dean Hurley, Stateless was released in November 2014.
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Discography
14 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Drifters / Love Is the Devil
Alternative & Indie - Released by Zoo Music on May 21, 2013
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I Was a Simple Man (Official Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Dirty Beaches, Pierre Guerineau
Soundtracks - Released by Éditions Appærent on Mar 21, 2022
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Young God's Run Free
Jazz - Released by 3231405 Records DK2 on Jan 25, 2024
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Lone Runner b/w Stye Eye
Alternative & Indie - Released by Suicide Squeeze Records on Oct 18, 2011
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Night City
World - Released by 3231405 Records DK2 on Mar 1, 2010
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Âncora
Dirty Beaches, David Maranha, Gabriel Ferrandini
Free Jazz & Avant-Garde - Released by Grain of Sound on May 31, 2016
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Xiu Xiu / Dirty Beaches Split
Alternative & Indie - Released by Polyvinyl Records on Apr 21, 2012
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August At Akiko's: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Rock - Released by FACTORY 25 on Apr 13, 2019
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