Dirty Beaches is the stage name of Alex Zhang Hungtai, a Taiwanese-Canadian musician noted for a lo-fi rockabilly origin that evolved into ambient and experimental work.

Dirty Beaches is a pseudonym for Alex Zhang Hungtai. The project moved from rockabilly/lo-fi towards ambient/drone across its releases; the moniker was retired after the album Stateless.

DeBaser reviews trace Dirty Beaches' arc from lo-fi rockabilly to austere ambient/drone. Reviewers highlight themes of drifting, nostalgia, and urban alienation, and praise atmosphere and production. Vocals are compared to Elvis and Alan Vega while later work embraces formless ambient textures.

For:Fans of lo-fi rockabilly, ambient/drone, experimental music and noir-tinged songwriting

 "Drifters/Love Is The Devil" is the raucous and daring song of a man who has yet to find his place in the world, a nocturnal solo simultaneously wild and decrepit.

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 Elvis Presley is not dead and I have the proof, he sings with his unmistakable voice on some tracks of the new Dirty Beaches, “Badlands”.

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 Stateless in the very sense of "without a state," because Alex Zhang Hungtai - undeniably the most handsome Chinese in the world - is a drifter, and many have already written about this.

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