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DICK DIVER – ” Year In Pictures “

Posted: February 13, 2016 in MUSIC
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Melbourne, Florida holds plenty of reasons as to why you should be showing Dick Diver to everyone you know. Even without mentioning their magnum opus Calendar Days, shoving songs like “Waste the Alphabet” or “Tearing the Posters Down” should be high on your priority list of songs to put on when someone asks “What should we listen to?”. There’s a narrative tilt to the way that Dick Diver write songs that’s unmatched amongst their contemporaries. If anyone claims that jangle-pop is too disaffected and obsessed with the mundane, smack them sideways with your copy of this record, and showcase the emotional weight in songs like “Boomer Class” to silence them effectively.

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Melbourne, Australia band formed in 2008. Features members from fellow Australian hitmakers Total Control, Boomgates & UV Race. The band’s previous two records (“New Start Again” & “Calendar Days”) were released by Chapter Music in Australia in 2011 & 2013 respectively.

DICK DIVER – ” Year In Pictures “

Posted: December 3, 2015 in MUSIC
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Chapter Music’s website refers to the band Dick Diver as “Melbourne deep pop thinkers”, and it seems like such a perfect description. Their grasp on guitar-based indie-pop music is clearly deep; they often recall New Zealand’s Dunedin scene and the Go-Betweens and other melodic-guitar-pop bands of the past. That’s a starting place, but they keep going directions you don’t expect, from the sax solos to faux ‘60s rave-ups to crashing anthemic choruses to soft-rock moods to quiet grooves that unfold and then disappear. The “thinkers” word is incredibly important too – when I think of their approach to lyrics as “smart”, what I mean is that they alternate among being inscrutable, wry, emotional, biting, strange, straightforward and poetic. One song, “Waste the Alphabet”, was written with the help of an actual poet. So you know, that means they’re smart.

DICK DIVER – ” Melbourne Florida “

Posted: March 2, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Dick Diver is the moniker of a carefree dream-rock quartet from Australia. But it turns out Dick Diver is a character from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Tender Is The Night”, a literary reference about a doomed psychoanalyst that makes far more sense — and feels much more meaningful .  Their third album Melbourne, Florida , is a wonderful listen , the surprises kept coming, like when the end of “Year In Pictures” breaks out into a lush saxophone solo, or on the next track, “Leftovers,” when the band’s only female member — drummer Stephanie Hughes — takes over lead vocal duty. For most tracks Hughes joins guitarist Rupert Edwards on vocals, and their musical chemistry is one of the most enjoyable parts of the record. It’s part of what helps them rise above clever, jangling pop and into more experimental and psychedelic territory without it ever feeling forced. Edwards sounds like he’s channeling Lou Reed sometimes, like on “% Points” when he clips his phrasing to flit around guitar parts and slides up and down to notes like Reed would. Though this is the group’s third album, none of them have been released in the US until now, but Melbourne, Florida is a great entry point regardless. Melbourne, Florida will be out 10th March via Trouble In Mind/Chapter Music.

 

DICK DIVER – ” Tearing The Posters Down “

Posted: February 14, 2015 in MUSIC
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Melbourne deep pop thinkers Dick Diver triumphed in 2013 with second album Calendar Days, the follow-up to 2011 debut New Start Again. Warm, wide and inviting, Calendar Days is a magnificent Australian pop album, hailed as one of the year’s finest.

The album’s success saw the band shine at Golden Plains, Brisbane Festival, Meredith and Laneway, play sold out shows around the nation and bask in the glow of reviews such as “the unexpected Australian break-out record of the year” (Herald Sun), “everyday Australian life made bittersweet and poetic” and “feels like an old friend, the kind that can comfort you through dark times”

DICK DIVER – ” Waste The Alphabet “

Posted: December 11, 2014 in MUSIC
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At one point on Australian band Dick Diver‘s new song “Waste The Alphabet,” guitarist Alistair Mckay sings “Look in the mirror/ I can see China from here”, sounding charmed by his own cleverness. It’s this totally impossible idea but also the track’s most memorable line, delivered with a snarky ease over genteel guitars and a surf-indebted breeziness. “I wanted a bitchy, self indulgent narrator.  The track, which Mckay co-wrote with Melbourne poet Michael Farrell, is off Dick Diver’s “Melbourne, Florida” LP, out March 6th via Chapter Music and March 10th via Trouble In Mind Records.

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