Dirty Three last gifted us with an album of regal instrumental post-rock in 2005, with the epic Cinder (TMT Review) on long-time label Touch and Go. Since then, the threesome has stayed active in the music world but always separated, denying their fans any new life-enriching material for the remainder of Bush’s term and most of Obama’s. Why should they care, after all? They’re Aussies… dirty Aussies leaving us all out to dry. The closest thing to a reunion was 2007’s Blue Trees by Tren Brothers — Mick Turner and Jim White (apparently Warren Ellis was too busy complaining about vaginas) — though even that was nearly five years ago.
But NOW, as you’ve gleaned from the headline, the boys is back with a new full-length, Toward the Low Sun, arriving February 28, 2012! Interestingly, this new album is not being released on Touch and Go — their home since 1995 — but instead Drag City, who have released the aforementioned Blue Trees and most of Mick Turner’s solo stuff. Not much is known yet about the contents of the album, but you can do some Christmas window shopping here and imagine that album art blown up to LP size, cradled in your lumpy arms.
Toward the Low Sun tracklisting:
01. Furnace skies
02. Sometimes I forget you’ve gone
03. Moon on the land
04. Rising below
05. the pier
06. Rain song
07. That was was
08. Ashen snow
09. You greet her ghost
Oh and here is one of my favorite Dirty Three songs, from their 2000 album Whatever You Love, You Are. Lend an ear, swoon, sway:
• Dirty Three: http://anchorandhope.com/dc
• Drag City: http://www.dragcity.com
