Both aggressive and transcendent, Australian instrumental trio Dirty Three occupy a niche few other bands can match: they are seers with attitude, alternating periods of elevated calm with churning crescendos. Dirty Three's 10th studio album, arriving a full dozen years after its predecessor, Toward the Low Sun (2012), ably restates the band's core offering: Warren Ellis's hard-living violin, often played through distortion pedals, offset..
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