On 28 March 2011, Dirty Beaches released his breakthrough album, Badlands.

"Songs slowly chug forward, are recorded at such a low volume and are blasted with so much echo and reverb that they sound like the ghostly remains of a half-century-old jukebox."

05. True Blue

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"I don’t know how to play drums, so I make beats at home. Then I program them or I try to sample a drum beat from a song."

- "Our whole generation grew up with hip hop on the radio and my whole production value is similar to traditional hip hop.
It’s pretty much hip hop in essence, but I’m not making hip hop music and I’m not rapping."

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Interview
https://web.archive.org/web/20260328105224/https://beatsperminute.com/scrooged-an-interview-with-dirty-beaches/

"Dirty Beaches’ Badlands"
https://archive.ph/XZziN

Fan video by Tyler Parke ft. 1973's Badlands
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7vBsgeJn_4