The "fresh blood" saga goes on. This time, the subject of the article is Dick Diver, an Australian band, formed in 2008, and named after the protagonist of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, Tender Is The Night. The band features guitarists/singers/songwriters Alistair McKay and Rupert Edwards, bassist Al Montfort (UV Race, Straightjacket Nation) and drummer Steph Hughes (ex-Children Collide, Home & Hosed co-presenter).
As they are a rather new band, is somehow natural that their songs still don't have what I like to call the oh-my-God-I-know-that-band feeling. Rather than that, their music gives you the feeling of something you've heard and liked before. The instrumentals are very well structured and really elaborated, and fit very naturally with McKay and Edwards' voices.
Two of their most interesting songs are Walk for Room (it has a very nice and cheerful guitar line and it's a strong piece, even if, or maybe just because it lasts less than two minutes) and Biffo (which becomes so creepy at a certain point that it is just wonderful). Both tracks can be found on their Arks Up EP, which has been released at the beginning of this month. And I'd suggest you to keep an eye on them, because this seems to be a very promising debut.
*photo courtesy of Dick Diver MySpace
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