“It's not hard to get tangled up in the Name Game while listening to Dirty Beaches. Alex Zhang Hungtai's schizo romantic crooning alter ego is chillwave-ugly in name and greaser-gorgeous in execution, as defined by its many references as it is by its creeping allure. "Sweet 17" mines a few crucial touch points-- Suicide's desiccated punk wailing, the existentialism of David Lynch's ominous Lost Hig”
