Alex Zhang Hungtai, a Taiwanese-born Canadian lo-fi musician based in Lisbo… Read Full Bio ↴Alex Zhang Hungtai, a Taiwanese-born Canadian lo-fi musician based in Lisbon, Portugal created the project Dirty Beaches in 2005.

Like Bo Diddley or minimalist synth provocateurs Suicide, Dirty Beaches’ compositions were not so much stripped down as refined to their essence. Drum loops, Hungtai’s croon, and the yearning melodies draped overtop belie as much a sense of haunting mystery as they do romanticism and wry humour.

In November, 2014 Alex Zhang Hungtai announced the end of Dirty Beaches. He performed one of his last concerts in GNRation, in Braga, Portugal.

Since 2016 he is releasing music again, under his birth name. He most notably released a tape – Knave of Hearts – on Ascetic House and a highly-acclaimed album, Divine Weight on NON Worldwide.

A Hundred Highways
Dirty Beaches Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by Dirty Beaches:

Casino Lisboa Lisboa, with your neon lights and your neon streets walking…
I Dream In Neon Let the sound of the city run Let the sound of…
Lord Knows Best The lord knows best When it comes to you, And you know…
Speedway King Speedway Speedway Speedway Speedway It's taking over me …

True Blue I walk along these streets until I Have you in…

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