Project Description

DIRTY HEARTS

Debut Album stream

‘General Bitterness and Inner City Moonshine’

& ‘Track by Track’ descriptions

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After the successful release of their instant classic single “Sand Lea” and brilliantly raw accompanying video which THE AU REVIEW described as “a perfect introduction to their versatility as a group“, Dirty Hearts are set to release their heavily anticipated album General Bitterness and Inner City Moonshine and celebrate with a bunch of headline shows.

General Bitterness and Inner City Moonshine was recorded at By The Living Grace Studio in Brisbane’s east, it features a mix of soaring vocals, raucous guitars and mature songwriting ranging from garage rock to sing-a-long anthems then back again. Blending alternative ‘90s Australian and ’70s British rock, Dirty Hearts have carved out their own sound that demands to be listened to – loudly. It’s no surprise that the trio have supported some of the country’s most revered bands such as You Am I, DZ Deathrays, Peep Tempel and Velociraptor.

Matt Doe explains the album as being inspired by “Everything as far-reaching, but not limited to, inner-suburban share-housing, high-density living, thirty-something stagnation, bathtub moonshine and almost losing your life to mobsters on the notorious Reeperbahn – and all points in between.” he continues on how General Bitterness and Inner City Moonshine is a progression from their previous work “In previous recordings we’ve had a fairly ad hoc approach to song writing. Generally speaking, tracks began as riffs or melodies that we’d work up and structure into something presentable. The lyrical elements would be haphazardly tacked on afterwards.  Nothing more than a means to an end.  This was the first time that we’d entered the studio with 6-8 completed tracks that we’d had ample opportunity to test in a live context prior to recording.”

Playing live shows with an energy and soul that leaves other bands in their wake, the band aren’t so much pumping on your stereo as much as they are blowing your speakers up.

Thursday July 5
Frankies Pizza

Sydney, NSW

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DIRTY HEARTS

GENERAL BITTERNESS AND INNER CITY MOONSHINE

1. Sand-Lea
2. Killing Time 
3. Hideaway
4. Dead Eyed Girls
5. Mary
6. New Way Of Walking
7. All About Us
8. Louis XIV
9. Be Right There 
10. Hold Your Hand

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TRACK BY TRACK DESCRIPTIONS

Sand-Lea

All pomp and arrogance, equal parts melancholy and inner-suburban angst, all smooth ’70s style. “I know you’ll probably get by, by thinking I’m nothing more than shag pile and cheap port drinking,” Doe ruefully declares. ‘Sand-Lea’ is a melodic tribute to the minutiae. A gentle introduction to the rock that will follow.

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All About Us

Barebones riffage, unapologetic bitterness. To missed opportunities, to the sting of failure and never being ‘the next big things’. “You got scenester looks all the gear you took, Honey it made you more interesting.”

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Killing Time

A bitter lament to a loss of youth and friends. A raise of the glass to the “grass being greener”. To 30-something stagnation and personal inertia pitted against the acquisition of responsibility and mediocrity that accompanies mortgages, 2.5 children and “deck shoes and barbecues”.

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Mary

An ode to isolation and the dark feelings that lurk beneath.

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Hideaway

No more than drunken, barstool shoegazing: “10 years not where you thought you’d be”’. It begs the question, style over substance?  To the pursuit, paying dues and the inevitable disappointment of it all.

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Louis XIV

“White trash mash really kicks my teeth in, I heard you say through a punch- pressed, metal smile”. To misspent youth, the science behind washtub moonshine and nights together shared between rammed-earthen walls and concrete floors.

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Be Right There

The anticipation of the “come-uppence”. To the secrets that’ll “rot from the inside out”. A buzzsaw, beckoning call to the uneasy night’s sleep that they can’t avoid.  To being there when it all falls apart.

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Dead Eyed Girls

Easily-lead, a predictably reckless ‘Hayseed’. You should’ve known better but nobody expected any less of a time. To escaping the mundane and surviving to recount the tale, only to be none-the–wiser for it.  Sonically, we always imagine it’s  like Santana whisked us away from an LCD Soundsystem concert.

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New Way of Walking

Concrete, white light, hot heat. The sweaty, soundtrack of the “night before the morning after”.  Drum beats, bright lights, we’ll meet. Written in the time it takes to play the song, it’s a proud display of false confidence.

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Hold Your Hand

A self-explanatory story harking back to simple pleasures, with a dash of grunge and glam. And it’s always good to have a song that takes as long to play as it does to reheat your dinner in the microwave.

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