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Album review: The Dirty Nil – The Lash
Crack that whip! Hamilton, Ontario’s rowdiest sons The Dirty Nil return revitalised on fifth album, The Lash.
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Listen to The Dirty Nil’s “jangly” new single, Spider Dream
Taken from July’s fifth album The Lash, The Dirty Nil have released a new single that came from frontman Luke Bentham feeling “completely refreshed by a nightmare” one morning…
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- Emily Garner
The Dirty Nil have just released an excellent – but really quite different – new single, Spider Dream.
Taken from their forthcoming fifth album The Lash, the Ontario duo call this their “most Beatles-sounding song” ever, with vocalist/guitarist Luke Bentham explaining: “I woke up one morning, completely refreshed by a nightmare. It was a strange feeling but enough to animate a song. I had also just watched The Beatles documentary that the Lord Of The Rings fella made, so I was inspired to use more jangly chords than I usually do.
“It was a strange one to bring to the band but the arrangement came together instantly and it never changed from the first time we played it.”
The Lash is due out on July 25 via Dine Alone – check out Spider Dream below:
And catch The Dirty Nil on the massive Common Thread Tour in Europe and the UK later this year.
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