Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and Jim White are back as Dirty Three, and have announced Love Changes Everything, their first album in 12 years, that will be out June 28 via Drag City. The trio made the record at Melbourne’s Headgap Studios with engineer Nick Huggins behind the boards. It was recorded in five days but they spent a year mixing it.
The album consists of “Love changes everything” in six parts, with the trio’s raw live-in-studio recordings having been “untethered from its streams of consciousness and reconsidered as a recording; brought to bear through edits, overdubs and mixes, resequenced and made suite-like. Made into this album.” Dirty Three have shared the first part, which finds their unique violin/guitar/drums alchemy as fiery as ever. Watch the video, directed by Anna White, below.
Dirty Three will tour Australia this summer (dates below). No word on North American dates just yet, but Jim White & Marissa Anderson begin a tour with Myriam Gendron tonight and they will play NYC’s Le Poisson Rouge on May 16.
Love Changes Everything
1. Love changes everything I
2. Love changes everything II
3. Love changes everything III
4. Love changes everything IV
5. Love changes everything V
6. Love changes everything VI
DIRTY THREE – 2024 TOUR DATES
Friday 14 June – RISING @ Hamer Hall, Melbourne
Saturday 15 June – RISING @ Hamer Hall, Melbourne
Tuesday 18 June – Canberra Theatre
Wednesday 19 June – Anita’s Theatre, Thirroul
Thursday 20 June – Enmore Theatre, Sydney
Saturday 22 June – Fremantle Passenger Terminal
Monday 24 June – Hindley St Music Hall, Adelaide
Wednesday 26 June – Odeon Theatre, Hobart
Friday 28 June – The Tivoli, Brisbane
Saturday 29 June – The Green Room, Byron Bay