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Love Changes Everything
DIRTY THREE
Love Changes Everything (Bella Union)
The amps hum, and they’re back. First album since 2012 from the old lads Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and Jim White – also seen in Nick Cave’s Bad Seeds, Xylouris White, yadda yadda – and the Dirty Three spirit still courses strong and unfucked-with. The violin still loops enigmatically and leaps suddenly, the guitar and drums still skitter and crash, the music as a whole still clamours and builds and evokes sunset sets at green music festivals.
Love Changes Everything comprises six Roman-numbered songs, with the noisier bits at the edges. I slowly cranks its gears into a raucous smash and grab, before II mixes tentative piano with a strange reoccurring synth gleam. The junkshop playfulness continues with V, but it’s VI that rather stuns: a violin loop like a bird flying round the room, guitar and piano getting braver and braver, gesturing towards epic without being so crass as to go there. Salute.
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