Last Lizard
“Detroit (Excerpt)” & “Dickie’s Theme”
Digital Singles
Fresh off announcing the dissolution of his Dirty Beaches project (tear), Alex Zhang Hungtai returns with two more slabs of instrumental, bleary-eyed sonic wanderings. Though he is sporting a new moniker, these two songs follow a natural progression from Stateless: DB’s cavernous, wondrous final album that dropped earlier this month.
While Stateless explored the overwhelming nature of being a single soul lost in a vast world, these singles seem to speak to the other side. They capture the quiet, contemplative nature of a person synthesizing that vastness into a microscopic portion that they can understand. and call their own Much of Dirty Beaches’ music dealt with searching the great expanse of the outside world for a place to call home. Maybe, with Last Lizard, Hungtai has finally found the home he sought by looking inward, instead.
