Dick Move’s Lucy Suttor told us about the meaning behind the band’s third studio album in a new interview.
Dick Move released Dream, Believe, Achieve last week via 1:12 Records and Flying Nun Records.
Dream, Believe, Achieve is “13 tracks of unrelenting energy,” with the Auckland-based band’s typically robust punk rock anthems “delivered in just 25 minutes.”
Dream, Believe, Achieve was tracked and mixed by De Stevens at Roundhead Studios, produced by friend and collaborator Peter Ruddell (Wax Chattels), with Mikey Young on mastering duties.
Speaking with Rolling Stone AU/NZ ahead of the album’s release, the band’s lead vocalist revealed where the album title came from.
[T]he name of the album is funny because it was a piece of inspirational art at an Airbnb on our first tour in Christchurch,” she said. “There were just those fucking motivational quotes all over the house and we were just looking at this one, ‘Dream, Believe, Achieve’, and we’re like, ‘There’s something funny about that,’ and we knew that we’d use it one day.”
Those three words together made Suttor think of “yucky, influencer, grift-y” motivational speech, which led the band to want to reclaim the phrase.
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Elsewhere in the interview, Suttor told us what she thinks the overarching mood of the album is. “[E]ven in some of the angrier songs, like ‘Scared Old Men’ or ‘Handful’, I think there is still hope there…. most of them are about mobilising and about people-power and about uniting and coming together.”
You can read the full interview on Rolling Stone AU/NZ later this week.
Dick Move — composed of Suttor alongside, Lucy Macrae, Hariet Ellis, Justin Rendell, and Luke Boyes — released their previous album, Wet, in 2023.
Wet featured in our Best New Zealand Albums of the 2020s So Far list, coming in at No. 49.
“Auckland’s favourite punk band of the last few years? Probably. Formed in the bowels of Whammy Bar, Dick Move have honed their craft by playing gig after gig after gig on K’ Road and beyond since 2019, and any room they play has been packed out due to their growing reputation on the live circuit.
“While their raucous punk is perhaps best listened to up close, Dick Move demonstrated that they also sound thrilling as hell recorded with the release of their second album. There’s a reason the band were called upon for a massive support slot when the Foo Fighters were in town,” we wrote.
Dick Move’s Dream, Believe, Achieve is out now via 1:12 Records and Flying Nun Records.
