Dirty Three share new single "Love Changes Everything II" from upcoming album "Love Changes Everything" out 28th June via Bella Union
Legendary instrumental trio Dirty Three return with their new album Love Changes Everything out 28th June via Bella Union and available to preorder here. Having last month shared a video for raucous album opener “Love Changes Everything I”, today the band share “Love Changes Everything II”, the meditative second track on this highly-anticipated LP. Click HERE to listen.
“Love Changes Everything II” is Dirty Three at midday: already in elegiac reverie, 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…
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 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.
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 global. Over the next ten years, they toured over and over the planet, cut seven albums along the way, and de-coupled themselves to piece together many other fruitful collaborations with myriad 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 beyond the microphones’ ability to receive.
This 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 head out on an Australian tour next month including shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide, Fremantle and Brisbane.
Love Changes Everything artwork and tracklist:
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
