''Bloody Lovely'' is the third

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by Australian

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band

DZ Deathrays DZ Deathrays (previously Denzel then DZ) are an Australian dance-punk trio from Brisbane, Queensland. Composed of Shane Parsons (vocals/guitar), Lachlan Ewbank (lead guitar/vocals) and Simon Ridley (drums), they put out two EPs before releasing ...

. It was released on I Oh You Records in February 2018. Australian radio station

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picked ''Bloody Lovely'' as their feature album of the week in February 2018. The music video for "Like People" featured one of the original members of

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, Murray Cook. It was nominated at the 2018 ARIA Music Awards for Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album but lost to Parkway Drive for Reverence.

Reception

The album was met with generally favourable reviews. On Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album has an average score of 63 based on 5 reviews. The lead single "Shred for Summer" placed within Triple J's Hottest 100, 2017 at no. 67 while the single "Total Meltdown" just missed out placing no. 109 within the Hottest 200 of 2017. On 18 February, the album peaked at No. 4 on the

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Reception

Track listing

Personnel

DZ Deathrays

Production

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