Dick Diver

Acquiring their name from the primary figure in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book Tender May be the Night time, indie rock and roll quartet Dick Diver shaped in Melbourne, Australia in 2008. Sketching inspiration through the emotionally wealthy pop of fellow countrymen the Go-Betweens, aswell as the brainy acoustic guitar wrangling of Tv and Yo La Tengo, guitarists Rupert Edwards and Alistair McKay, drummer Steph Hughes, and occupied bassist Al Montfort (who also used Total Control, Decrease A lot, and UV Competition at differing times) released their 1st EP, Arks Up, in ’09 2009. It started their romantic relationship with Chapter Information and with maker Mikey Youthful of Total Control and Eddy Current Suppression Band. Edwards and McKay had written a lot of the tracks on Arks Up, but on the 1st full-length album, the complete band chipped along with composing and singing. Documented in an older homestead in Large Nation, Victoria, New Begin Again premiered in 2011 and noticed Dick Diver building for the Australian pursuing their EP got garnered, while sending their audio out to the globe. The band’s following recording, 2013’s Calendar Times, was documented at a seaside home on Phillip Isle, so when released received warm evaluations. Quickly afterward, the music group tripped on an internationally tour that included slot machines at big celebrations (Laneway, Golden Plains) in Australia. That same yr they do a split solitary with Lower A lot for Matador’s Singles Heading Home Only series, after that in July of 2014 released an individual (“New Name Blues”) for Fruits & Blossoms. Keeping with custom, their following record was documented in another out-of-the-way locale, this time around a previous sheep-shearing shed in Apollo Bay, Victoria. Released in early 2015, Melbourne Florida was their 1st album to become released with a U.S. label, Difficulty in Mind, aswell as by Section. Because of the album’s achievement and Dick Diver’s developing popularity in the us, due partly to their comprehensive touring for the record, Difficulty at heart reissued their initial two record there in early 2016.