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Dirty Three: Love Changes Everything review – aggressive and transcendent
On their first album in 12 years, Warren Ellis and co fuse violin, guitar and drums to create wistful beauty out of distortion
Both aggressive and transcendent, Australian instrumental trio Dirty Three occupy a niche few other bands can match: they are seers with attitude, alternating periods of elevated calm with churning crescendos. All have other careers – Ellis as right-hand man to Nick Cave, Turner playing solo and collaborating widely, White supplying broken backbones to Bill Callahan and Cretan lute player George Xylouris, among others. The band’s unkempt bona fides are established early through some lo-fi textures in the opening track, while the more pensive shades of the album’s midsection emphasise plucked and wistful beauty.
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