Music Dirty Beaches . Lone Runner . 7 ”  single series . Suicide Squeeze’s . release october 18 .  “Lone Runner” is the next installment in Suicide Squeeze’s excellent 7” single series, a howling, delicious, grimy number that Dirty Beaches’ Alex Zhang Hungtai is letting loose by way of a limited run of 750 copies on October 18 Dirty Beaches mastermind Alex Zhang Hungtai was born in Taiwan, but he doesn’t have a home. Moving from place to place throughout his life due to a fractured family, the 30-year-old singer-songwriter sometimes felt adrift. In a recent phone interview, he described a stint selling real estate in China during his mid-twenties as “a weird displacement upon displacement.” And that same feeling can be ascribed to his music, which layers coats of lo-fi grime over tracks that sound like relics from the early days of rock ‘n’ roll. Many of his songs come off like Elvis Presley relics recorded through the wall of a skeezy motel. Hungtai started pursuing music seriously about five years ago after moving to Montreal, and has released a few 7” singles leading up to his debut LP, Badlands, out March 29 on Zoo Music Image Sarah Mackillop myspace.com/dirtybeaches dirtybeaches.blogspot.com suicidesqueeze.bigcartel.com

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Dirty Beaches . Lone Runner . 7 ”  single series . Suicide Squeeze’s . release october 18 . 

“Lone Runner” is the next installment in Suicide Squeeze’s excellent 7” single series, a howling, delicious, grimy number that Dirty Beaches’ Alex Zhang Hungtai is letting loose by way of a limited run of 750 copies on October 18

Dirty Beaches mastermind Alex Zhang Hungtai was born in Taiwan, but he doesn’t have a home. Moving from place to place throughout his life due to a fractured family, the 30-year-old singer-songwriter sometimes felt adrift. In a recent phone interview, he described a stint selling real estate in China during his mid-twenties as “a weird displacement upon displacement.” And that same feeling can be ascribed to his music, which layers coats of lo-fi grime over tracks that sound like relics from the early days of rock ‘n’ roll. Many of his songs come off like Elvis Presley relics recorded through the wall of a skeezy motel.

Hungtai started pursuing music seriously about five years ago after moving to Montreal, and has released a few 7” singles leading up to his debut LP, Badlands, out March 29 on Zoo Music

Image Sarah Mackillop

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