Dirty Beaches: "Casino Lisboa"

Alex Zhang Huntai, a.k.a. Dirty Beaches, is through fucking around. The 75 minutes of his new double LP Drifters/Love Is the Devil, leave the listener scrambling for footholds in its dense mire of scattershot noise. In spite of Pitchfork's overly ebullient score the collection has a patchwork (read: directionless) quality to it but I guess if you're going to get your feet wet "Casino Lisboa" is the place to do it. Just keep in mind this is probably the poppiest song on the record.

Dirty Beaches: "Lone Runner"

Second beach-related video of the day, but not really.  The only thing sunny or beach-worthy about "Lone Runner" is the Wall of Sound girl group handclaps underpinning the otherwise grim, Nick Cave smothered drone of the Dirty Beaches palette.  Nick Cave is a bit of a stretch as a comparison, but one edge I'll give to Cave is that the man usually has good videos.  I think they were going for harrowing here but the only thing troubling to my own sense of ease is the paroxysms of boredom I get watching this dullardry.  Still, I'll post a bad video for a good song, I just won't post a good video for a bad song.
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