Cover for Dirty Three -- 'Love Changes Everything'

How important the rambled contributions of an alcoholic obsessive are to the trajectory of D3 is questionable at best, yet little belies the pertinence of these three post-rock pirates in the history of Ozstralia mapped international sensation. Love Changes Everything is a holy triumphant return to form for this crew who parallel solely The Cure in their ability to continue to create albums that push new sonic territory even with so many years in the game, perhaps a tell more than any as to why Bobbie Smith chucked ‘em on in the Opera House all those years ago. A culmination in determination, a maturation of sound, and incarnation of punk fury turned rebellious gentleness through an understanding that only age gets you that sometimes tenderness is the greatest form of anger, Ellis on the pianah for a bit but still translating circular Dvorak-ist principles around Jim White’s pernicious post-percussive futurism. It’s an old jumper you wear despite the holes, a return to the ability to drink white wine again, an urn of ashes pride and place on a mantlepiece, a poignant reminder of artistic supremacy, a roiling rumbling post-rock heartstring plucked and plundered and paralysing all the non-believers.