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Australia’s Dirty Three are notorious for playing instrumentals that blur the line between open-ended and endless. On “Cinder,” their seventh studio album, they break their own rules by recording short tunes and employing a pair of female vocalists. Both moves prove to be canny as they showcase another side of the band without compromising its strengths. On “Great Waves,” Cat Power’s Chan Marshall mourns the victims of the tsunami that scoured the Indian Ocean’s shores days before the band hit the studio; Sally Timms’ wordless, dulcet utterances act as another instrument on “Feral.”
