Dirty Love (dubus)

Few metal bands have had their back catalogue repackaged as much as Motorhead has over the years, and the 1989 import compilation DIRTY LOVE can be added to the ever-growing list. Like such other similarly styled collections (OVER THE TOP, ON PAROLE, etc.), DIRTY LOVE contains much of the same selections, but also includes several other rarely heard oddities–"Waltz of the Vampire" and "Godzilla Akimbo."…

Never one for easy categorisation, the on-going adventures of David Longstreth’s Dirty Projectors project are especially genre-agnostic on the 5 EPs released throughout 2020. The neatly-titled 5EPs collates these songs into a mammoth compilation. Each set of songs sees a different band-member taking over lead vocal duties, and indeed the flavours of these tracks stretch the breadth and width of the musical spectrum. The likes of ‘Self Design’ and ‘Empty Vessel’ deal in funk and house-inspired rhythms, while ‘Moon, If Ever’ and ‘I Get Carried Away’ are staunchly minimal in instrumentation, but undeniably 1960s pop in melodic sophistication.