Tracklist

#1 Speedway King
#2 Horses
#3 Sweet 17
#4 A Hundred Highways
#5 True Blue
#6 Lord Knows Best
#7 Black Nylon
#8 Hotel

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Dirty Beaches / Badlands

Zoo Music

formats available

CD
$12.00
ZM 010 CD
655035007021
Street Date:
August 30th, 2011
Ship Date:
August 22nd, 2011
LP
$13.00
ZM 010
655035007014
Street Date:
August 30th, 2011
Ship Date:
August 29th, 2011
MP3 DOWNLOAD
$7.92
655035007021
Street Date:
August 30th, 2011

Badlands is the debut vinyl album from Dirty Beaches, a one-man project out of Montreal via Hawaii, China, Taiwan and a bunch of other disparate locales. Part cassette-culture Elvis, part Alan Vega alienator, this guy’s doing for rockabilly what Ariel Pink did for funk-pop nostalgia. Received an 8.2 rating from Pitchfork. “Badlands is about a man who is possessed by the road. My mother used to say to me, ‘You walk at night often enough, sooner or later you’ll run into a ghost.’ I think it’s very true, as the devil comes in all forms. Just here to fuck your shit up. Side A is all bangers, with songs about leaving, being chased on the road and driving a burning car into oblivion. Side B is ballads and dirges laced with murder and lament.” —Alex Zhang Hungtai