Dirty Moves

The Chandeliers new 'mixtape' release, Dirty Moves, offers an extended look at the multi-faceted creative energy that filters into the group's music. Selected from a backlog of practice tapes that span the group's four-year history, Dirty Moves not only charts the band's evolution, but also displays their stunning artistic flexibility. Over the course of thirty-three tracks, we hear Chandeliers digging deep into groove mode, all the while engaging in the sort of open-eared improvisational interplay that fuels the band's music, as melodic motifs get bounced around and the beat gets taken in unexpected and delightful directions. They snake all over the musical map and brilliantly run through a diverse array of styles - from middle eastern synth-pop to Congotronic clatter, electro and twenty-first century techno-funk, plus a few slips in cinematic mode and a couple of brief sojourns into celestial realms.