Check out Silas of Monstrous Wickedness' Interview with Dirty Beaches, real name Alex Zhang Hungtai. His music feels like an agglomerate of influences: Orbison, Presley, Reed, and Czukay jump to mind first, while further listens reveal moments reminiscent of Kid A and Angelo Badalmenti’s Twin Peaks. But Hungtai’s music is not pastiche. These elements are a vocabulary that is rearranged and subverted to reveal an attitude that his alone.
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