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ALBUM RELEASE: Dirty Beaches -- "Lone Runner" EP

For Alex Zhang Hungtai (aka Dirty Beaches), staticity is a fate worse than death.

For Alex Zhang Hungtai (aka Dirty Beaches), staticity is a fate worse than death. The image of the modern nomad, the list of cities in which Hungtai has lived resembles more an extensive world tour than a personal history. For those of us who can't afford to pick up our lives at a whim's notice and say "On to the next", Dirty Beaches' tunes and tales of drifiting satiate whatever pangs of wanderlust we might have.

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In keeping with his fetish for constant forward movement, Dirty Beaches' latest EP, Lone Runner, is driven by the rhythmic chugchugchuging of a train in motion. We can't say where the train is going, but we're pretty sure that Alex is more than happy to go it alone.

Stream the two track EP here, or snag it via Suicide Squeeze Records' bandcamp for less than the cost of a cup of coffee/the cost of supporting a child in Africa or whatever.

Also, peep the gritty video for "Lone Runner", directed by Kevin Luna (with help from M. Night Shamalamadingdong?) below: