thank you for listening to the album,

& to all the radio stations for playing it!

13 weeks on !earshot charts

11 week run on CICK (smithers, bc)

#3 & #8 on CHRW (london, on)

#7 on CJSR (edmonton, ab)

#9 on folk/roots CFUV (victoria, bc)

Based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, heavy folk project The Dirty Beat uses extensive vocal harmonies with primarily acoustic instruments and a hard-hitting rhythm section, bringing to mind a primitive, pre-electric rock band with a “seemingly endless palette of originality that distinguishes The Dirty Beat from other musical acts” (The Tinnitist).

The Dirty Beat's new album Birthrite: Lancing the Boil is "visceral and poetic ... an emotional exorcism in an alternative folk style" (La Caverna), with compositions that "stay wonderfully raw and offbeat throughout" (York Calling). Birthrite is a purge and rebirth ritual, a scathing retrospective of a life turned septic, exploring themes of life changes, mental illness, social alienation, and personal accountability.

While the Dirty Beat's instrumentation places it under the category of Folk, it has a darker, heavier sound, one truly its own and hard to pin down.