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The Dirt: Power Junkie | Ignorance Is Bliss – single review

  The Dirt: Power Junkie | Ignorance Is Bliss Golden Believers Records DL | Stream available from 2nd December The Dirt are back with a double taster preceding their debut album which will land in April next year and it’s going to burn your retinas and scorch your ears says Wayne AF Carey… Jack and […]

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Golden Believers Records

DL | Stream available from 2nd December

The Dirt are back with a double taster preceding their debut album which will land in April next year and it’s going to burn your retinas and scorch your ears says Wayne AF Carey…

Jack and Sachiko are burning their way through the music scene with their extraordinary mix of spoken word and full on psych drone that needs to be witnessed live to catch your full attention. It mesmerises and drags you in with the twisting effects of Sachiko’s wall of sound and Jack’s tales of mental health, the state of the Government and the underbelly of Manchester to startling effect.

Jack (AKA Leon The Pig Farmer) has been on the scene a few years now and pops up everywhere at a venue near you on a whim in his trusty camper van. Hard working, self promoting and keeping it real for the underground, his clever, witty, off the cuff sometimes spoken word resonates and Sachiko is a wizard with the electronics like she was born with a set of effects pedals in her pram.

Power Junkie is an unapologetic stab at the Government who fail to understand the working class hidden in their haze of profits for the rich. A funky as fuck tune, drone bass line, hip hop beat and some great guitars following Jack’s mantra of “Power Junkie” It’s got all the repetitive hallmarks of the great Suicide if they stepped forward 40 years into our unsettling future with a Tardis of sonic noise.

Ignorance Is Bliss kicks in with a pumping beat and bass line backed with some searing sonic psych guitar drifting over the whole sinister scenario of mental health delivered in anger by Jack. Echoing and haunting in equal measures with an unsettling sound that drage you into a hypnotic state. A top piece of sonic art to give you a taster for their anticipated debut album.

The Dirt are Jack and Sachiko, a marital couple based near Manchester who create psychedelic punk fused tracks, not fearing to straddle or uncompromisingly merge genres as they seamlessly bend the rules. They combine guitar loops, effects and distortion with percussion and the spoken Lyric. Formed in 2020 they initially dropped two unexpected EPs to Bandcamp (No more moves and Phishing in feral streams) in quick succession which caught the attention of the alternative music press around Manchester and local independent radio. They have also released a limited sold out edition CD via GBR and an official live bootleg via Rare vitamin records.

Post lockdown in 2021 they took their music project Live, first appearing with Fuzz Club Italian psych band New Candys at Yes Manchester. Since then they have continued to promote their unique sound around the North of England supporting various international and well established bands in the psych and post punk genres, as well as independent festival appearances.

Neither chosen as an A or B side but as “this or that” for the listener to decide their preference, as it has The Dirt folk of inner workings split!

The album – “Agitator” is due for release on limited (100) Vinyl and bottomless CD in April 2023 with a follow up download option via Bandcamp. Extras will be offered to the first 25 vinyl purchased. These first two tracks offer an insight into the direction The Dirt area heading, they have gigs booked into 2023 and social media is where you can find out all things Dirt related.

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Words by Wayne Carey, Reviews Editor for Louder Than War. His author profile is here

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